Chef Sven from Hyatt Sydney’s windy day of tasting farm life at Hilltops free range eggs. #eggs #pastured #circulareconomy #sustainablefarming

Thirteen ways of looking at a chicken:
3 lost eggs,
4 lambs growing on the pasture that the chicken improved,
5 new clumps of Phalaris grass from the seeds the chicken spread, and
1 blue sky, just for fun.

A good summary of our farm in one photo.

#countingchickens #countingeggs #thirteenways #chicken #benefits #pastured #eggs #farmlife #springday #lambs #onephoto #farminonephoto #spring #losteggs
 
loosely inspired by “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens

"Let me cook you some dinner.  
Sit down and take off your shoes  
and socks and in fact the rest  
of your clothes, have a daquiri,  
turn on some music and dance"
 
The egg farmers' plate, of course.
#eggs #dinner #pasturedeggs #cook #cooking #healthyfood #protein #farmersdinner
 
 
--from the poem "The Love Cook" by Ron Padgett

"I have heard men long for a palace, but I want no such abode,
For wealth is a source of trouble, and a jeweled crown is a load;
I'll take my home in the open, with a mixture of sun and rain--
Just give me my old sheep wagon, on the boundless [Hilltops] plain."
 
Finished with lamb marking over the weekend and happy to sit all day, watching the lambs enjoy a well-fertilised pasture. We rotate chickens and sheep in a natural cycle that cares for the soil and nourishes our pastures. On a sunny spring day, the best home is out in the open, sitting on a blanket and watching the two white lambs.
 
If only the eggs would collect and pack themselves!
 
#spring #lambs #poetry #farmlife #sunnyday #out #intheopen #sun #whitelambs #pastured #eggs #outside