{"id":2823,"date":"2013-04-18T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2013-04-18T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:26:20","slug":"farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/homestead-2\/farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Can Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2824\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AnyOneCanFarm.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2824\" alt=\"Anyone Can Farm\" src=\"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AnyOneCanFarm.gif\" width=\"495\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anyone Can Farm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ran across this Web News piece from my Permaculture Google Alert <a title=\"Anyone Can Farm - Permaculture - Bakers Green Acres\" href=\"http:\/\/bakersgreenacres.com\/acf\/?p=441\">Anyone Can Farm \u00bb Permaculture &#8211; Bakers Green Acres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bakers Green Acres based out of\u00a0Marion, MI \u00a0is a farm which raises, produces and sells\u00a0chicken, pork, beef, and eggs and also teaches classes for those who want to learn how to farm.<\/p>\n<p>They also raised funds to build a learning center to help encourage and teach more folks about the importance of growing our own food, and not just meat and protein, but vegetables and carbohydrates as well. \u00a0Mark Baker describes in the video embedded below how important it is for our generation to learn how to raise and produce our own sustainable food sources.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dSMKfz2u-Us\" height=\"273\" width=\"485\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their Indiegogo <a title=\"Indiegogo crowd sourcing project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/anyone-can-farm-america-s-farm-to-fork-academy\">ANYONE CAN FARM: America&#8217;s Farm to Fork Academy<\/a>\u00a0crowd sourcing project only raised $12,837 of the $75,000 goal. I am hoping that this effort does not die and they continue to offer their <a title=\"On-site courses\" href=\"http:\/\/bakersgreenacres.com\/acf\/?page_id=97\">on-site courses<\/a>\u00a0which can be found on their calendar page. They are also working on some online courses for future offerings.<\/p>\n<p>I myself would love to learn how to farm, and not just the vegetables and produce that I&#8217;ve been growing for years, but\u00a0poultry, pork, and beef also. \u00a0This seems to be a growing trend especially with the explosion of farmers markets in recent years, the farm to table, and localvore\u00a0\u00a0movement all makes more sense to me today than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bon appetite!<br \/>\nCCR<br \/>\n=:~)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bakers Green Acres based out of Marion, MI  is a farm which raises, produces and sells chicken, pork, beef, and eggs and also teaches classes for those who want to learn how to farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1666,1926],"tags":[212,1970,324,1669,2114,1927,249,1968,1969,1781],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}