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Basic BELT (bacon egg lettuce tomato)

3 Feb 20228 Sep 2012 by Mike (tfb)
Basic bacon-lettuce-tomato plus egg sandwich

More incredibly simple and tasty local food: the basic BELT – bacon egg lettuce tomato – all local except for salt, pepper, butter, and mayo. Bacon from the farmers’ market. Eggs and veg – heirloom tom, second cut baby lettuces … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Cooking & Eating, Local food Tags lettuce, tomato, meat, eggs, Summer Leave a comment

Eggs from the wild

10 Feb 20242 Aug 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Collected eggs

Four or five of the girls have been escaping every day, creating their own day pass, and doing a fair imitation of flying while they’re at it. In the morning, I open the chickenhouse door and barricade it with a … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Animals Tags fencing, birds, eggs, Summer 13 Comments

Farm eggs with hot sausage

7 Jul 20092 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)

A week after arrival, the 25 Shaver Red Sex Link ready-to-lay layers are starting to lay. That’s good. We’re up to 7-8 eggs a day, and most are just shy of Small (on the official egg scale), but the numbers … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Animals, Local food Tags eggs, weighing, scale, Summer 2 Comments

Beet greens!

30 Jun 200917 Jun 2009 by Mike (tfb)
First beet greens

If you love beet greens, you can practically taste this photo! Fresh-picked, sauteed just to wilting in olive oil and butter, with a smashed and chopped clove or two of garlic, salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heaped on a … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Cooking & Eating Tags beet, beet greens, eggs, Spring 9 Comments

Chickens on egg

25 Jan 200919 Jan 2009 by Mike (tfb)

Another (quiet) farm day, another fine distraction from the chickens’ bag of entertaining tricks: swarming on stuff! This happened to be a piece of a semi-frozen egg that I found in the deep litter. The egg had probably been buried … Read the rest

Categories Animals Tags distractions, chickens, eggs, Winter 13 Comments

Chickens love eggs

7 May 20139 Dec 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Today, a bit of an egg disaster, around 20 eggs down, by far the biggest single egg loss in my brief egg-collecting career. The girls choose to do most of their laying in one nest box (there are six in … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Animals, Harvest Tags chickens, unusual, eggs, Autumn 11 Comments

Chickens at work

27 Jan 20091 Dec 2008 by Mike (tfb)

The Shaver Red Sex-Link laying hens are doing fine in the fairly chilly chickenhouse, eating up a storm, looking and sounding healthy and happy, and producing away. They’ve been in artificial light days for the last couple of months, about … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Planning, Animals, Tools Tags eggs, books, chickens, lighting, chickenhouse 6 Comments
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