by Mark & Jill Baker | Jan 5, 2011 | Green
On Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve we received the best presents a pig can give: piglets! Two of the blond Mangalitsa sows had litters. They have proven to be good mothers. They are in loose stalls with deep straw bedding. The room is insulated and stays...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Dec 12, 2010 | Green Acres
This snowstorm has us all excited about skiing, snowmobiling, and sledding. The animals just hunker down, though. The sheep are cruising the garden for leftover goodies. I had to rescue the remaining brussel sprouts from them–they preferred those to the...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Sep 29, 2010 | Green
Harvesting sunlight: that’s what we do. At a “grazing school” we recently attended, one of the presenters said, “There are very few free lunches in this world….The sun is one of them.” One of the things we knew and had reinforced...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jul 15, 2010 | Green
Today was a typical Tuesday. The Crew did about 180 chickens by 11:00, then pitched in to do odd jobs, including the building of a new outhouse. The packing crew got the orders filled and the chilled birds tucked in the cooler till tomorrow. A busy but not...
by Mark & Jill Baker | Jul 5, 2010 | Green
The pigs are loose! Fortunately they’re loose in the next field over. And they’re supposed to be loose in there. The pasture Mark planted in April is finally grown enough to put the Mangalitsas in to graze the greens and dig the roots. This particular...
