Social distancing for clouds: the one you can watch, lying on your back against a bale of hay, and feeling happy about the state of the world. #socialdistancing on the #farm, #farmlife #hiddenchickens #pasture #clouds #safeplace
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A liquid gold colour, the last of the harvest this season is done.
#harvest #homegrown #fullcircle #chickens #crops #eggs #sheep #natural #pasture #workinglate #summeronthefarm 2021, we are ready for you. Happy new year to everyone and may the best be ahead for all. #nofilter #nophotoshop #2021 #eggs #pastured #free #sunset #ouroffice #work #workingholidays
Our version of eggwreath to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas! warmest greetings from all the chickens and the farm team #merrychristmas #chickens #eggs #eggwreath
"Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange; Nothing that is can pause or stay" – from "The Song of the Potter" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow From pastured chickens, to organic fertiliser, to clover, to pasture, to golden hay, to sheep... The wheels are turning on and on, the future becomes today. #hay #cycleofnature #turningwheels #eggs #pastured #farming #farmlife #natural #organic #chemicalfree #chickens These chickens really know how to lay an egg.
if we put a dozen of such eggs together, it would make a-1.8kg package to take home! Photography by Flor Our favorite evening time discoveries as we go for a walk around the paddocks: There are the same three chickens who always walk all the way up the hill, and perch on the gates, right in the corner. They stand close, gossip loudly for a while (a lot is happening in the chicken world every day), and then go to sleep on the gates. Then, there is the same one chicken, who ever since we baled the hay, comes and flies all the way to the top of one particular silage, and sleeps there. Same silage every day. There are a few bales together in a row, but she always chooses the same one bale.It is very unusual for a chicken to want to be by herself at night, most of the chickens stay and huddle together. This is what true free range is supposed to mean.
Come morning, all these four ladies go and join the flock. Why do they do it, and not stay like everyone else with the herd? My theory: they just like the sunset from that height : Now adding two days for home deliveries of eggs and farm produce (for now, Canberra only). Choose between Tuesday and Friday deliveries when you checkout.
"Last night I dreamed of chickens,
there were chickens everywhere, they were standing on my stomach, they were nesting in my hair, they were pecking at my pillow, they were hopping on my head, they were ruffling up their feathers as they raced about my bed. They were on the chairs and tables, they were on the chandeliers, they were roosting in the corners, they were clucking in my ears, there were chickens, chickens, chickens for as far as I could see... when I woke today, I noticed there were eggs on top of me." -- the poem "Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens" by Jack Prelutsky, From the book "Something BIG Has Been Here" #livingthedream #poetry #chickens #eggs #freerange #chickenseverywhere #welovepoetry #dreams #dreamscometrue #jackprelutsky #whatdreamsaremadeof Our special elongated egg edition, limited while stocks last, order at eggs@hilltopsfreerange.com. Emoji
Double yolk eggs make us happy, it's like getting twins in one go! #doubleyolk #eggs #twohalvesmorethanone #doublejoy #joy #freerange #golden #twins #double #doubletrouble #special #specialedition #longegg A big THANK YOU to all our team. It takes a village to grow pastured, truly freerange eggs.
We have the chickens totally mobile and free, and all infrastructure without walls and floors, so it takes a lot of hands to find, collect, and process the eggs, and take care of all the chickens. #thankyou #teamwork #eggs #farmwork #bonvoyage #partyatwork #freerange a.k.a. 'The Cavalry Charge' (you need the audio!). Having some fun at work today with the egg machine. #workisfun #workandplay #playatwork #funatwork #jumpingjoy #joy #egg #eggmachine #machinefails
--music from The Overture to Rossini's opera William Tell Tall grass, blue sky, and friends to share all the gossip with. What more would a girl need? #sky #grass #chickens #eggs #chatter #gossip #wishyoucouldhearit
"The tractor goes round and round...I am soooo sleepy... zzzz"
😴 -- Forest the Maremma sheepdog, while watching our tractor do all the hay baling work. "Ode to Some Yellow Flowers" -- poem by Pablo Neruda
"Against the blue moving its own blue, the sea, and against the sky, some yellow flowers. October arrives. And though it may be so important for the sea to unroll its myth, its mission, its yeast-like inspiration, there explodes over the sand the gold of a single yellow plant and your eyes are fixed on the ground, they flee from the great sea and its rhythms. We are and will be dust. Not air, not fire, nor water but earth, only earth we will be and maybe also some yellow flowers." --translated by Jodey Bateman #poetry #eggs #pabloneruda #pastured #yellowflowers #october #freerange #earth #chickens "A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year At any other period —... A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay..." -- "A Light exists in Spring" by Emily Dickinson That feeling when the day is done and we can all lie around, squinting at the sunset, smelling fresh spring grass. #done #spring #grass #freedom #freerange #Maremma #workdone #eggs
The adventures of the red tractor and the Grand Canyon of Hilltops Free Range #muddy #adventures #rainywinter #newlandform #stuck #mud #waterstreams #creeks #letitflow #bogged
Photobombed by jumping Jack
Have you ever seen a happier dog? #photobomb #maremma #happy #happydog #free The red bin got stuck, and try as it might, red tractor couldn't pull it and got stuck. Try as it might, the yellow tractor tried to pull them and got stuck. Try as it might, the green tractor tried to pull them and got stuck. Try as it might, the hilux couldn't pull anything but got us humans out of the paddock.
Fun was had by chickens and humans alike. Nobody is complaining because rains and tall grass are a blessing. #farmfun #bogged #fun #stuck #mud #chickens #tractors #bringiton #anyothertruck #farmlove Salt lines, permanent mud stains, tears in the leather and water coming in. But also...
4 years of hard work, achievement and pure joy. And if, as we believe, our life will ultimately be measured by what we have done for our fellow men, then by this standard we fear no judgment. Time for the new pair. Tree grows on top of rocks, splitting through them.
Rain comes, and grass grows inside cracks. Chickens come to eat grass and enjoy the shade of the tree. STONE->TREE->GRASS->CHICKEN->GREAT EGGS chain of Nature. #cycleoflife #chickens #freerange #treesplitsrock #naturalfarm #stone #splitrocks #strongtree #treebeatsrock #eggs 1. Learned to 'bark' (sound is not to be missed! ) 2. Socializing well with chickens 3. Drinking from a bowl. They definitely improved employment skills in the first four weeks of life #puppies #Maremmasheepdog #learning #jobready #cute #freerange #firstthings #growingup |
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