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“Light breaks where no sun shines”

8/13/2026

Our experiment this winter was to put battery-powered, very low-power strip light, to guide the birds safely back into the sleeping roosts at night. A bit like the gentle strip lights guiding you on the plane when all passengers are asleep and the plane is quietly humming.
The chooks go very, very, very quiet once the sun is down. The mobile shed looks magical and reminds me: there is always, always a light at the end of the tunnel.

There is always hope in better things coming.

--from the poem “Light breaks where no sun shines” by Dylan Thomas

Dog kisses

8/6/2026

The Joy! The JOY! 🤣🤣🤣 The only true love that lasts forever 🤣❤️ #joy #Maremma #love #pasturedeggs #dogkisses

"Every flower must go through dirt"

7/30/2026

Working from darkness to darkness, in blistering wind these last few days, tears streaming on my face just from being absolutely frozen… and then suddenly in one hidden place around the back of the house, coming upon this early flower. Maybe a seed spread around by accident from one of the hens? Maybe a leftover from some pots that got broken by a puppy below the windowsill a few seasons back? We never planted this.
There is plenty of good left in the world.

#flower #dirt #hardship #eggs #pastured #farmlife
-- quote by Laurie Jean Sennott

Snowman in July thrive here

7/23/2026

“Seasons come and seasons go,
And the greatest ice must crumble
When it's flowers' time to grow.

And as one thing is beginning
So another thing must die,
And there's never been a snowman
Who has ever seen July”

We welcome all snowmen to see July – just come to the Southern Hemisphere at the farm! 😃 brrrr cold mornings this week, freezing but pretty, even the creeping thistle!

#frost #thistle #pastured #eggs #snowman #beauty
--from the poem “Snowman” by Shel Silverstein

Retirement and school holidays - who wore it better?

7/16/2026

In #retirement, just like in school holidays, one wears baggy, fleece Pyjamas all day long and one can’t do everything lying down: eating, drinking, watching the world go by 🤣🤣🤣 - don’t know who does it better, our retired Maremma Jack or the school holiday kids! #lazy #maremma #pyjamas #farmlife #pasturedeggs

Eating your greens

7/9/2026

“Eat some spinach and you'll turn green”
- If the hens eat lots of greens, could the eggs turn green?
Just asking for a friend who bought some ham. 😃

#greens #eggs #pasture #greeneggsandham #poetry

--from the poem “Vegetables” by Shel Silverstein

Typical July rains

7/2/2026

:) "Oops! [Mud] on my jumper... Oops! [Mud] on my leg...Oops! [Mud] on my hair."
There is no clean piece of clothing nor a dry feather left at the farm this week, heroic effort by the whole farm team! The usual July #rains, here we go!
#mud #eggs #heroes #rainy

--from the poem "Honey sandwich" by the wonderful Elizabeth Honey, with some substitution of honey for mud, just as sticky but a lot less sweet :)
--Photography by Jonathon

Soccer egg (football egg)

6/25/2026

The world is World Cup and all of the farm is its playing field 😊 Go Socceroos! The whole chicken farm is staying up to support you
An #egg as a #soccer #ball #pasturedeggs #socceroos

Pilates for chickens

6/19/2026

“If you’ve let your body sag,
Pilates ought to be your bag,
Results are great and effort small,
On your back in the village hall!”
#pilates for #chickens is minimal exercise and great for stretching #pasturedeggs and #freedom to stretch at our farm. #eggs —poetry from the wonderful Pam Ayres

Narrow Fellow

6/11/2026

“A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides -
You may have met him? Did you not
His notice instant is -“

Our slim Maremma enjoying some #afternoon #sun while we are looking for some lost #pastured #eggs -from the poem “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” by Emily Dickinson. Photography by Mario

The Van Gogh of the Egg Farm!

6/5/2026

The swirling, eddying patterns of the skies from his ‘Starry Night’ painting, recreated on our eggs this week!
#vangogh #eggs #weirdegg #pastured #chicken art

The chicken which decided to unravel the complex, mathematical laws of atmospheric turbulence and fluid dynamics and project her feelings and inner turmoil on the canvas of an egg, one true artist. 😂

Ramses II, The Pharaoh of Hilltops Free Range

5/28/2026

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Ozymandias (better known as Ramses II) is actually right here at the farm, guarding our flock 😊 The King of Kings, in his typical Pharaoh posture, overlooking his kingdom and the courtiers & nobles of his Estate 😃

#pharaoh #Maremma #sheepdog #kingofkings #pasturedeggs #farmlife
-- from the poem “Ozymandias” by Percy B Shelley
Photography by Mario

What we look like after two days of rain

5/21/2026

"If you want to please us, Sun,
(don't take this as a warning)
if you're going to pierce the clouds,
please do it in the morning."

This is what we all look like, casting off two days of nonstop rain and seeing sunshine for the first time today :)

--from the wonderful poem "The Sun Just Had a Nasty Day" by Denise Rodgers
#sun #aftertherain #rain #pasturedeggs #eggs #autumn

Of Hens and Worms

5/14/2026

The love story of hens and worms
#eggs #pastured #worms #goterra #favouritefood #sustainability

To keep the heart warm

5/7/2026

“Let the mind take its photograph
Of the bright scene, something to wear
Against the heart in the long cold.”

We got bright yellow leaves to keep the heart warm today, welcome to the first blistering winter winds.
#cold #gold #leaves #pasturedeggs #eggs #autumn
--from “A Day In Autumn”, by R. S. Thomas

Sustainability in maggots, hotel food scraps, eggs and wine

5/1/2026

"Commitment is an act, not a word." — Jean-Paul Sartre

Being sustainable is actions, not only words and reports. Overcoming all obstacles, we are proud to be collaborating with the teams from @fourwindsvineyard, @goterracbr and @hyattregencysydney, and attend the official launch of The Circular Vintage 2025 Shiraz at the Hyatt Regency last night, who are the dream team that can make anything happen.

Three of our chickens, Henrietta, Princess Lay-a, and Bok Bok, got to stay at the luxury 5-star Heritage Atrium and mingle with glitterati guests at the event.
#sustainbility #circulareconomy #pasturedeggs #fullcircle #commitment

Winter-ready

4/23/2026

“beauty is twice
beauty,
and what is good is doubly
good,
when it is a matter of two socks
made of wool
in winter.”

Are you ready with the thick woollen sweater and two good woollen socks? It’s certainly very chilly at the farm, frost on some mornings. Our alpacas are fleece-ready 😊
#wool #winterready #sweater #pastured #eggs

-from the poem “Ode to My Socks” by Pablo Neruda (yes, he did write about socks too 😊) and translated by Robert Bly
Photography by Mario

Moon Joy and the Flat Egger

4/16/2026

We have a flat-egger on the farm: 4 eggs so far with the exact same flat-side shape.

This chicken missed all the #MoonJoy, the Earth-rise and Artemis II photos.
Suggest we include a chicken in the next flyby to the Moon!
#flategg #moonjoy #pasturedeggs

"Breathless with adoration"

4/9/2026

“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;”

A #farm #evening in the #paddocks, we are all breathless with adoration. #pastured #eggs

Photography by Mario
--from the poem “It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free” by William Wordsworth

Find our hidden special Easter eggs dozen and win a hamper

3/24/2026

Find our hidden Easter eggs!

In one dozen this week, we have replaced the 12 raw eggs with 12 colourful, hard-boiled Easter eggs. The lucky person to find the Easter eggs dozen will receive a complimentary hamper, with the best pastured eggs in NSW and some chocolates, to celebrate Easter in style.

Hint: look out for our 700g dozen package in retail stores.
If you find the lucky dozen, send us an email to: [email protected] with a photo and your receipt.

Happy Easter egg hunting!

#Easter #eggs #hunt #prize #colourful

The odd, the weird, the unusual, and the triangular egg

3/19/2026

“you won’t see them often
for wherever the crowd is
they
are not.
those odd ones, not
many
but from them
come
the few
good paintings
the few
good symphonies
the few
good books”

Our ‘strangest of the strange’ egg this week: we had a triangular egg! Here is a photo, comparing it to a ‘normal’ egg. We love the strange, the unusual, the weird. From inside it, came a wonderful, orange, zesty, beautiful yolk!

#theunusual #egg #triangularegg #pasturedeggs #thestrange
--from the poem “The Strongest Of The Strange” by Charles Bukowski

The Earthquake and the Lilies

3/12/2026

“The Earthquake rumbled
And mumbled
And grumbled;
And then he bumped,
And everything tumbled--
Bumpyty-thump!
Thumpyty-bump!”

#Earthquake in #Boorowa last night, woke up the henhouse and made the dogs bark like mad. Only the magic lilies looked on coolly and just shook off their water droplets. Just another day of farm life.

(magic lilies, or ‘naked ladies’ or ‘Belladonna lilies’, beautifully surprising us at the farm right now, right next to the packing shed)
--from the poem “The Bashful Earthquake” by Oliver Herford

#lilies #pasture #eggs

Photography by Haydn

Kissed by Rain

3/5/2026

“Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby..
And I love the rain.”

After three days of rain kissing every paddock and singing a lullaby to all birds, we all LOVE the rain. Suddenly, all the brown is green!
#brown and #green #eggs #pasturedeggs #aftertherain

--from the poem “April Rain Song” by Langston Hughes

Eat three pound of sausages and wear purple

2/26/2026

“You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go”

This is retirement life of a working dog, with old boy Jack showing us the way 😊 He just cleaned the whole 1.2kg of the lamb and veggies can, his favourite 😊 amazing appetite!
#retirement #bliss #fat #eggs #farmlife
--from the poem “Warning” by Jenny Joseph (starts with the wonderful first line of: “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple”)

All that's best

2/19/2026

“And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;”

The beauty of our youngest chicken, up close and personal. When she arrived at the farm, she was so timid and shy, she was the youngest of all. And now, possessing that perfect harmonious mixture of light (sparkling eyes) and dark (dark feathers and a real character). All that's best.
#eye #eyes #beauty #hen #chicken #eggs #pasturedeggs #poetry #beautiful

--from the poem “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron

Photography by Haydn

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