Mina Postman has been homesteading on 25 acres in Ionia county since 2012 and before that in an urban setting in Grand Rapids worked in a community garden as well as her own. She and her husband have dairy goats, laying hens, a small herd of beef cattle, ducks, and dogs and cats. They raise chicken and turkey for meat each summer and produce maple syrup from their sugar bush each spring, and tend a garden and orchard.

Tiffany Doolittle and her husband, Eric, understand the importance of growing and sourcing quality food locally for health and sustainability purposes. The more people that grow food and raise livestock animals, the greater availability of food for the greater community. Let us make Michigan a place that grows and thrives through homesteading! The Doolittle’s do a lot on their two acres in Leslie, on Teaspoon Hill. Both Eric and Tiffany have full-time careers, along with a permaculture garden, a vegetable garden, and two cats who enjoy both gardens.