The annual Maremma teeth inspection: ✔
#dogsmile #dogselfie #Maremma #freerange #pasturedeggs 

​Impressionism masterpiece by nature: with a lot of rain, and a bit of wind, our landscape looks like impressionist painting: “relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes”, usually with an open composition, and depicting everyday, ordinary scenes. #impressionism #farmlife #art #artisforever #chickens #grass #brushstrokes #wind #view #myoffice (Definition of Impressionism from Wikipedia)

​The farmer's office: Laptop: ✔, Table: ✔, Chicken on the table: ✔, Grand view: ✔, Blue skies ✔, Spring blossoms ✔

Really, what more could one want from life?
#farmersoffice #myoffice #chickens #chickenseverywhere #pastured #farmwork #farmlife #laptopandchickens #eggs #blossoms #spring 

Proposing a new measure for grass growth: 1 CHICKEN LENGTH.

There is 1 horse power. Watt, the Scotish inventor, measured it by measuring how much weight a horse can lift while pulling a rope running through a pulley to a weight on the ground — one foot high in one second. 550 pounds of weight a foot high in one second. 

So we propose: 1 Chicken length of grass: the amount of grass grown in a good season in one month. #grass #growing #pasture

"When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy", there is always the crops and the sun. #sunset #workday #pasture #mixedfarming #cropping #freerange
 
-- loosely referring to Minnie Aumonier, the 19th century poet, painter, and costume designer.

Green eggs and ham… ugh… we mean green grass and eggs… we do so love // green grass and eggs … #drseuss #greeneggs #eggs #pastured #pasturedeggs #grass #spring.
--Photography by Tom

I would stand on the forklift to make sure I'm taller than everyone else, including that king-like white creature.

Not sure who is happier about virtual schooling: the dogs or the kids?

#virtual #schooling #farmschool #farmlife #maremma #free #happy #play #eggs #pastured

"My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
...Be still, sad heart! And cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary..."

In each life some rain must fall, metaphorical or real, but there is still the sun behind all the dark clouds.  
-- From the poem 'The Rainy Day' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Found the perfect COVID egg: a little bit jaded, all folded and crinkled on the outside, worn-down and not the pick of the litter. But full of good nutrition on the inside, and a little bit funny, to bring a smile to your faces.
Keep smiling, always :)
#folded #egg #pasturedeggs #funnyegg #covidegg #jaded #covid #smile #bringasmile

Got the front wheel out, back wheel went into the same hole 😂 … doing anything at the farm these days is a heroic adventure. Odysseus had an easy ride when he sailed for Troy. Considering getting one of those DUCK cars (the US Army DUKW) that can go straight in and out of water. Anyone have one we could borrow? #stuck #bogged #needatank #dukw #pastured #adventures #farmlife

Driving through the gates full speed, because otherwise we would sink :) - a wonderfully wet winter season.

Looking for a coach big enough to fit 3 coach potatoes 🥔 🥔 🥔. These three puppies sleep all day if they can. This is deceptive though, Maremma sheepdogs, like all guardians, are nocturnal in. Foxes are active at night  and so the Maremmas go around every night to let predators know they are on duty. They can sleep all day. We know they work hard at night. #maremma #puppies #sleeping #nightshift #pastured #eggs #duty #guardians

The question is: will a dinosaur 🦕 hatch out of an egg that weighs 180g?
This is the biggest egg ever found, said Tabea.
If we put a dozen such eggs together, they will weight 2.16 kilos!
Evolutionary proof that indeed, chickens and dinosaurs are related.

 Photography by Tabea.

#dinosaur #egg #giantegg #enormous #record #brokenrecord #breakingrecords #pasturedeggs #giants

"Delight Is As the Flight", Emily Dickinson wrote.

The freedom to flap and fly wherever you want to, whenever you want to. The freedom to go anywhere, anytime.


Freedom is delight.
#freedom is #pasture-raised #pastured #eggs #fly #delight #poetry #motion #motionphotography #ibelieveicanfly

It was our red tractor that pushed the clouds away today, so that it is going to be sunny tomorrow ☀️😜🚜 #opticalillusion #illusion #clouds #rainyday #redtractor #calm #pasturedeggs #pastured #eggs #maremma

Watching the last leaves on the tree, with the Curious Chook #autumn in #australia #pastured #eggs #lastleaves

“The little farm that could” win the Sydney Royal Easter show , by @canberratimes #thankyou #fame #pasturedeggs

This season we are experimenting with not only rotational, but ‘conjoint’ rotational grazing. With the sheep in the same paddock as chickens, in addition to expanding the biodiversity in the farm, and the benefits for the soil humus buildup, we also found a surprise benefit: having the sheep roam around encourages chickens to lay all their eggs in the proper laying boxes. Less hidden eggs amongst tall grass. All credits to Prue. #symbiosis #friends #friendsinhighplaces #eggs #pastured #pasturedeggs #farming #soil #biodiversity

From dawn till dusk, work on the farm is never done... #farmlife #freerange #eggs #dawntilldusk #winternights

Every day can end beautifully, no matter what challenges one faced. Checking on the last flock for the day, and enjoying a sunset looking like a broken #pasturedegg between  the sky and Earth. #myoffice #farmlife #pastured #eggs #freerange #sunset #beauty