Tiffany Doolittle
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.
Mina Postman
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.
Meet The Team
Mitten Homesteaders Conference
Bringing Michigan homesteaders together to share in a vigorous movement of food abundance and freedom.
We Are Mitten Homesteaders
Homesteading in Michigan is unique and exciting! We are surrounded by the Great Lakes and have a climate friendly to multitudes of livestock animals, as well as fruits, vegetables and grains.
We want to bring homesteaders together to share in a vigorous movement of food freedom and abundance. We know there are hundreds of folks in Michigan with skills and knowledge who can share what they know with more hundreds who are thirsty for that knowledge!
Whether you have a large following on social media, or you are just doing your thing in relative obscurity, we want to meet you face to face and learn from you.
We would love to see traditional skills like wild crafting, foraging, food preservation and animal processing become much more mainstream; to see herbal remedies and canning and local food systems become common. Since family homesteads are the place where these traditions most thrive and are passed down, we will place a high value on them and do our utmost to promote them.
Our 2025 Mitten Homesteaders Conference is May 16-17!
Lake Odessa Fairgrounds, Lake Odessa, MI
Mission Statement
Mitten Homesteaders promotes a Michigan based community that cares about families raising, processing and growing food as well as cultivating and customizing their own home cultures. We aim to provide platforms and venues where individuals are able to learn and share ideas with other homesteaders.
Our perspective is informed by the Biblical command to fill and care for the earth. We are directed by standards of Judeo-Christian principals, giving glory to God through His singing creation!