by Mark & Jill Baker | Sep 10, 2013 | Green
We enjoyed a working vacation this weekend. Along with Randy and Libby Buchler of Shady Grove Farm, we drove 13 hours to Swoope, Virginia to join old friends and make new friends at the Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund fundraiser at Polyface Farm. It was fun and...
by Mark & Jill Baker | May 22, 2013 | Chickens, Education
Anyone who’s raised animals very long can tell you that sometimes things go wrong. They aren’t really “Acts of God.” Things were designed to work a certain way and when it goes wrong it usually involves nature, as in “the nature of the beast” (literally). Animals...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 5, 2012 | Green
Seems like it’s been a long time since I’ve written here. I just did an update on Anyone Can Farm because that’s been a lot of our busyness lately. A good share of what we’ve been doing lately, too, is reconnecting our family. With being so...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Nov 24, 2012 | Green
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pusuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Nov 6, 2012 | Green
Our problems with an overzealous government agency have prompted us to look at solutions to the problem. A basic 3 prong approach seems prudent, as government feeds on its own perceived power and will continue to try to regulate small farms out of existence and...
