We'd dreamed of owning our own small farm for a number of years and finally took the plunge in 2002. We started out just reading lots of homesteading and natural farming books. We took a beekeeping course at the U of M and learned about building with stone and constructing our own wo
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fired oven at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais. We
planted our first gardens in 2003 and a neighbor gave us three
chickens to make us true "farmers" that same year. We raised our
first batch of 100 broiler chickens in 2004, and we started raising
some beautiful layers for fresh free range eggs year round. In 2005, we finally built
that outdoor wood fired oven, baked our first 10 loaf bread batches
and spent the summer selling fresh produce and baked goods at the