by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 22, 2009 | Green
Have you ever had a “real” turkey? If you’ve only had the Thanksgiving special sale turkey, you haven’t had a “real” turkey. This year we provided turkeys from like-minded growers on request. One of those growers is the...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 5, 2009 | Green
Mangalitsa pigs love potatoes. Not as much as acorns, but more than turnips. These are the young group of Mangalitsas. They made a miraculously easy move (when they race ahead to go exactly where you want them, it is nothing short of a miracle!) through the yard...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Nov 4, 2009 | Green
It’s a gray, yucky day here on the farm. We’re ready for some liquid sunshine in the form of the cod liver pills we take through the winter. There’s a nasty cold (maybe flu?) going around, closing schools (except for those fortunate children who...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Oct 12, 2009 | Green
It’s safe to say fall is here. We’ve been busy beavers. The boys have been thinning the sparrow population. These nuisance birds flock together in the fall–one sure sign winter is on its way. About this time of year they begin to prefer the barn...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Sep 19, 2009 | Farm to Fork, Mangalitsa, Organic Pork, Pasture Mangalitsa, Pasture Raised Pork
This summer we sent a Mangalitsa pig up to Chef Ted Cizma at the Grand Traverse Resort… but I’ll let him tell you about it. I wish I could have tried some of those interesting dishes. Maybe this winter when we go to Pigstock 2010….
