Had to start our 1978 Daihatsu Scat this week, to help the collection. Classic cars for the classic pastured eggs.
All our buggies gave up at the same time, must be so much mud getting into the mechanics.

The hens seem to love it :)
#classiccars #pastured #pasturedeggs #oldcars #oldiebutgoldie #eggs #oldage #cars #challenges

Whatever it takes, to get eggs for our customers!
The perils of completely pasture-based, pastured, free-range eggs operations.
 
We hope everyone in NSW is safe, and all people missing are found safe and sound.
 
#floods #mud #dangerousfarming #pastured #eggs #extremedriving
 
--Photography by Ana

​Have you ever seen an egg wrinkled?
Or an egg with a head and a neck?
Can you spot tiny tot that's been mingled
with the eggs of our harvested flock?

--inspired by the weird, wacky and wonderful eggs we get. 
​
It's a whole family we got today: 
- Daddy-Egg, standing tall and a little bit bent, for looking after the family. 
- Mommy-Egg, all wrinkly from washing dishes all day
- and the Tiny Tot, all perfectly round and plump and rolling all around freely 🙂
#weird #eggs #pasturedeggs #pasture #farmlife #poetry #wierdeggs #wacky #wonderfuleggs

"If a body meet a body,
Comin' through the rye,
If a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?"

Robert Burns clearly had our paddocks in mind when he wrote "Comin' Through the Rye" :)
Particularly, at the beginning of a very wet November, with the hens getting lost in the tall rye.

#robertburns #tallgrass #lost #hens #poetry #pastured #eggs #rye 

Underage driver, no license, no P plates, trying to steal my buggy for a joyride on the paddocks!

“I’m not a chicken; I have seen
Full many a chill September,
And though I was a youngster then,
That gale I well remember;
The day before, my kite-string snapped,
And I, my kite pursuing,
The wind whisked off my palm-leaf hat;--
For me two storms were brewing!”
 
— from the poem “The September Gale” by Oliver Wendell Holmes #chicken #poetry #perfectpoem #storms #rain #thunderstorm #september #wind 

You know you're a mom when walking around while breastfeeding and eating lunch isn't out of the ordinary. :) :) :)
 
--Photography by Selena
 
#mom #farmlife #walkingandbreastfeeding #puppies #Maremma 

“But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
​
Back to the icy blast this week, but we think it was the last one. #ice #winter #farmlife #pasturedeggs #icyblast #frozen
--from the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, the beloved poet by night and chicken farmer by day!

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"I'm in love with mud,
It's sad, I know, but true.
I just can't help but splash in it,
Or stomp a path right through.
...
I splatter in the grimy gloop,
I can't resist the ooze!
I run, I jump, I stamp about,
It drips into my shoes!"
The Joy!
#mud #soil #pastured #joy #pasturedeggs #freedom #rains
#puppy
-- excerpt from the poem "I'm In Love With Mud" by Gareth Lancaster

Splendour In The Grass - the Hilltops egg farm version 😂😂😂.   

The flip side of muddling through the last couple of months is that we have incredible, luscious, splendid GRASS! It is indeed like music to a farmer's ears .  We are also very happy to share tips and tricks with festival goers on how to in-bog vehicles, how to drive tractors and how to enjoy the wonderful rain and mud😄

#splendourinthegrass #farmlife #mud #grass #pasturedeggs #music

"My heart leaps up when I behold 
   A rainbow in the sky"
 
If you look up, there is always hope. In anything, and for everything.
 
 
 -- poem by William Wordsworth
 
#hope #hardwork #farmwork #rainbow #pasturedeggs #chickens #green #lookup #teamwork

Our chickens are just like little kids, would have ice-pops for a meal anytime!
 
When left alone, both kids and chooks would choose ice-pops on a [grass] stick over any kind of nutritional, sugar-free option the 'boring' parents are trying to promote. 
 
While our farm is enjoying beautiful frosty mornings, the chickens love that moment when the sun is just about to fade out all the frost. Half the frost is up as fog, and half is in that half-ice-pop - half-slushie - half-water state on the long blades of grass.
 
Beautiful, perfect, cooling, thirst-quenching breakfast.
 
And the view from their breakfast table is not bad either.
 
#pastured #eggs #morning #frost #icecream #icecreamforbreakfast #pasturedeggs #chickens #morningwalk #farmlife #winter #wintermorning #winterfrost #naturalfeed 

It's dry!
Life at the highest hill tops at Hilltops farm is good (pun intended): grass abundance, clear skies, cloud shapes to dream about. We hope everyone across NSW is safe, in all low grounds and high grounds alike. 
#surviving #floods #grass #clearskies #finallydry #sun #farmlife