“If it ain't all ‘golden sunshine’ where the ‘wattle branches wave’,
Well, it ain't all damp and dismal, and it ain't all ‘lonely grave’.
 
And, of course, there's no denying that the bushman's life is rough,
But a man can easy stand it if he's built of sterling stuff”
 
One thing is sure: Spring is near! One can choose to look at whatever one would like to look at: sure, life is rough, but we are tough!
#spring #wattle #blooming #blossoms #farmlife #pasturedeggs #bugs #yellow
P.S. Did you see the bugs?
 
 
--from the poem “An answer to Various Bards” by Andrew Paterson

“Oh, open the door, some pity to shew,
If love it may na be, Oh;
Tho' thou hast been false, I'll ever prove true,
Oh, open the door to me, Oh.”
 
They got through the gate while the tractor was going out of the paddock,
and now they are all promises, promises, googly eyes and all…
You, runaway chooks, you better prove true,
We’re tired of chasing lost eggs after you!
 
#gate #runaway #freedom #pasturedeggs #chooks #pasture #eggs #letmein #locked #paddock #farmlife #grass #sky
 
---- from the poem “Open the door to me oh” by the great Robert Burns

 We solved a question of geometric proportions, which ran parallel to our emotions.
Yes, indeed, the yolk we found inside our triangular egg, turned out to be a perfect, bright yellow-orange circle! The joy of having a right-sized omelette for lunch today – an egg of any shape would taste as magnificent!
#eggs #pastured #yolk #weirdegg #perfectyolk #geometry #strange #egg #triangleegg #shapes #farming #experiment #surprise #whatsinside

How we are closing the ‘circular egg-onomy’ (pun intended 😊): we supply our pastured eggs to the Hyatt Regency hotel in Sydney, and they make amazingly delicious food. All the food waste from their kitchens then goes into a GoTerra facility on site, which grows fly larvae onto food scraps. GoTerra then supply us the larvae as insect protein that we feed to our chickens, the chickens roam around all day and lay eggs, and the cycle repeats again.
 
Playing our part in sustainability and building inter-connected, diverse and innovative economic models with actions, not words. Insect protein seems to struggle with the ‘yuk’ factor for humans, despite being extremely lean and having a very high protein portion. But it is wonderful for chickens, and they turn it into ‘likeable’ eggs for human consumption: win-win for all involved.
 
#circulareconomy #sustainability #actionsnotwords #pastured #eggs #eggonomy #collaborations #freerange #insectprotein #coolthings with @goterracbr @hyattregencysydney
 
-Photography by Tom, the Hyatt Regency Sydney, and The Australian Financial Review, 3-4 August, 2024.

“The [egg] is an [egg],
And was always an [egg].
But the theory now goes
That the apple's an [egg],
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove an [egg].

You, of course, are an [egg]-
But were always an [egg].”
 
We have had apple-shaped eggs, and pear-shaped eggs, and cone-shaped eggs, but this is the first time we got a triangular shaped egg!
By any other shape, an egg is still an egg, right?
 

• From the poem “The Rose Family” by Robert Frost, the chicken farmer and poet, with additions by Hilltops free range – replacing the ‘rose’ with an ‘egg’

#weird #eggs #pasturedeggs #triangleegg #poetry #farming #farmlife #odd #oddshape