Summary: <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Meet the Gold family. They're modern day homesteaders. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Their goal is to live as self-sufficiently as possible on their three acre farm in Ypsilanti. (They often say they use yesterday's knowledge combined with today's technology.)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Two years ago they started the <a href="http://www.mifolkschool.com/">Michigan Folk School. </a>The school promotes traditional folks arts and the preservation of forest and farmland.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To find out why the family started the school, and why they became homesteaders in the first place, listen to this week's Environment Report, right here.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And for a bonus feature, check out this interview with six year-old Amelie Gold. She wanted to explain how the family goes into the forest to tap maple trees. She walks us through the process, and you can listen <a href="http://michiganradio.org/post/ypsilanti-family-finds-happiness-living-land">by clicking here.</a> </span></p>
