- Date
- 2013-09
- Kind
- Business
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Participants
- person/scott-slezak · person/julie-slezak
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- commerceagriculturefamilycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 2013 Beaver Beacon profiles Scott and Julie Slezak’s move to a 40-acre Beaver Island homestead and the heirloom-seed business that helped make the move possible. The article describes their livestock, gardens, home-schooling, and work toward a self-sufficient farm.
Evidence limits
This is a contemporaneous profile of a new homestead and business; it does not establish the later condition or commercial scale of the farm.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2013, "Welcome Home, Annie's Heirloom Seeds!"Profiles the Slezak family's move to a 40-acre Beaver Island homestead, heirloom-seed business, livestock, home-schooling, and efforts toward a self-sufficient farm. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held September issue scan confirms the profile.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-09_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Annie's Heirloom Seeds establishes a Slezak family homestead on Beaver Island”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-annies-heirloom-seeds-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2013, "Welcome Home, Annie's Heirloom Seeds!" (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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