Chicken or the Egg
Written by Tamara on Mar 15, 2010
Tamara’s Tweet:
“Neighbors’ chicken nesting again in my yard. Who has rights to the egg?”
Farm-fresh eggs really are a different experience compared to our store-bought eggs. You can tell how fresh they are by placing an uncooked, in-shell egg in a cup of water. The collagen is so evident — a fresh egg will lie on the bottom, while an older egg will float a bit.
Eat the fresh egg!
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"Sometimes we forget how good simple things can be."
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I grew up on a farm North of Seattle, so cooking with fresh vegetables, drinking fresh milk from the Dairy, canning almost anything that could be canned, making our own pickles, sweet and dill, making our own sauerkraut, gathering fresh eggs, and yes fresh eggs are so much better than ones that have sat in the refrigerator for weeks. The yolks have color and substance. It has been over 30 years since I have lived on the farm and I am an “Urban Gardener”, hard to call myself an “Urban Farmer” and I still can foods and make my own jams. Once you use fresh and make your own it is hard to enjoy anything else. I am looking forward to the cook book and further blogging.
Although we have been experiencing odd weather this spring; one day cold the next warm, a week of rain, a week of sun, I have been having a great deal of fun in the yard. I was a recipiant of a small green house and I have been starting, tomato’s, cucumbers, Zinnia’s, Zucchini, and oak leaf lettuce. “Experiment of growing lettuce in the G.H.”, I am harvesting lettuce almost daily and making the best salads. Arugula is still in the garden from last year along with fresh Thyme. A new project is to get the herbs out of the garden adding room for more veggies and giving herbs their own bed to flourish. I also home Mason Bee’s and am helping a person doing a study on the bees. They are so much fun to watch at work. This past week, with the cold weather they have not been very active, I hope that they are not done for the year. Loving the garden more than ever.
A month has passed and I have been working diligently on my garden. The herb garden is complete and now awaiting the seeds to sprout. I have purchased some plants (Rosemary, Thyme, Sage) and transplanted the chives, Oregano, and Arugula. The Mason Bee’s are still busy scurrying around the yard and filling their straws with eggs and mud. I am now working on the apple trees. In our area of the country we are plagued with Coddling Moths and Apple Maggot’s, so I am busy thinning the baby apples and dressing the little fruits with small nylons, a very time consuming job, but the bugs do not lay their eggs in the apples that have their nylon coats on. The work we do to get fresh produce in our own yards. A total labor of love.
Once again another month has passed. June was very hard on many gardeners and farmers. My father is still farming at 83 and had to plow under the corn and replant the field. He told me that with all the rain there were many farmers that lost their potato crops before they hardly got out of the ground. Some farmers lost 400 acres which in dollars it cost $1,000 per acre to plant so figure out how much they have lost this spring, plus what they would have made on the crop. Well, things in my garden are growing but they are not as big as they should be. BUT……my new herb garden is flourishing. I picked dill for our salmon tonight and thyme and basil for my zucchini, ok the zucchini is not yet from my garden. We spent a glorious week on the Oregon Coast, my favorite place to be, and I rediscovered tarragon, I put it in crab cakes, and in my potato salad. I don’t have any in my garden, I must find some plants and get them in the ground very soon. Life is especially good when the sun in shining and the garden is growing.