"If I were short it would be fun, I'd never bump my head, And my feet would not get chilly 'cause they stick out of my bed."   [And] sometimes when you're trying to hide, It's better to be small"   The sweetest moment when the puppies are just short enough to hide in between a flock of chickens ?   #short #puppy #pastured #eggs #Maremma #puppies #lovepuppies #poetry #farmlife #hide #flockofchickens   "Tall and short poem" by Big Bird and Little Bird, The Sesame Street Treasury. Volume 14 Starring the number 14 and the letters U, V & W.   - Photography by Carla, wi ..read more

Can you see the chickens walk with a new swagger? ? Three new ribbons just arrived, from the Royal Easter Show 2024: we won the Champion award in two categories, as well as the Grand Champion award overall!   #swagger #awards #ribbons #sydneyroyalshow #showoff #eggs #pastured #awardwinning #again #champions ..read more

“The sky is all covered with cobwebs, wisps of them, drifting so high that probably no one could reach them with a rag on a broom, and not a soul is trying. How did it come to this? Hundreds of people with time on their hands, and not one broom in the air!”   This is all it takes sometimes: just be the first one to reach up ?   #clouds #cobwebs #reachup #sunset #clouds #pastured #eggs #freerange #lookup #afternoonsky #poetry #farmlife #howcome #lookingforabroom   --from the poem “June Afternoon” by Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek, from their book Marshmallow Clouds ..read more

There'll be days like this, my mama said"   ...when not one, but two tyres of the collection ute go bust, the chain on the machine breaks for no apparent reason, the gas bottle that looked heavy is actually finished.   Best time of days like this: the evening sunset, egg collection is done, eggs all packed, and truck is on the way.   #farmlife #breakdowns #pastured #eggs #freerange #tyres #utes #dayslikethis #mamasaid #lyrics and #farming   --from the lyrics to THE SHIRELLES song "Mama said ..read more

“You ask for a poem. I offer you a blade of grass. You say it is not good enough. You ask for a poem.   I say this blade of grass will do.”   Yes, the chook and I agree, a blade of grass is a whole poem. With the last two weeks left of summer, we can sit all sunset and contemplate the blades of grass, each taller than the car bonnet.   #bladeofgrass #summergrass #grass #hidden #pastured #eggs #pasturedeggs #farmlife #poetry #endofsummer #tallgrass #chicken #freetoroam #sunset #farming -- from the wonderful poem “A Blade of Grass” by Brian Patten ..read more

Feeling eggstra special today at the egg farm. Enjoy a holiday to dye for ? #easter #eggpuns #pastured #eggs #dyedeggs #artandfarming #art #farm ..read more

We won the Grand Champion prize and the First prize in the 2024 Royal Easter Show Egg Competition! The winning eggs are still at the Judging table, if you would like to visit this Easter long weekend. The Poultry Pavilion is a lot of fun, with all shapes, sizes and colours of feathery creatures.   A massive THANK YOU to the whole farm team, without all of your hard work, this would not have been possible!   This is a third first prize for us at the Easter show, and we are grateful to all customers for supporting the best eggs in NSW ?   This year, we also have a stall at the Ro ..read more

"When [feathered] wings are glistening in the beam Of the low sun, and mountain-tops are bright, Oh, let me, by the [Lachlan] valley-stream, Wander amid the mild and mellow light; And while the redbreast pipes his evening lay, Give me one lonely hour to hymn the setting day."   My favourite time at the farm, when all the eggs are collected, and the evening light is golden on the feathered birds, and it’s time to look up at the sunset, for one lonely hour, and just breathe.   #sunset #hues #sunrays #feathers #glisten #mellowlight #pastured #eggs #farmlife #chickens #sundown #attheend ..read more

 Our farm stamp and a tasty egg for a blank canvas: that's all it takes sometimes to create art.   From our own budding Barbara Kruger (the American artist with words on her thought-provoking works): Lily, the creative talent. Look out, and you might be lucky to find her creations in the packages this week :)   #art #farmlife #eggs #pastured #stamp #artist #creativity #thinkdifferent #wordsonart #letters #code #food ..read more

One is hiding and all twenty-three are seeking: they got the hide-and-seek game all wrong these chickens ? ?   Found this pretty fluffy bottom inside the hollow tree in one flock – the favorite place for games for our young chickens. All twenty-three friends were calling out and looking for her, and this one was hiding all the way inside the hollow tree trunk. #hideandseek #backwards #pastured #eggs #chickens #hiding #treetrunk #play   ..read more