Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
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Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
5d ago
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
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
1w ago
“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
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
2w ago
Feeling eggstra special today at the egg farm. Enjoy a holiday to dye for ?
#easter #eggpuns #pastured #eggs #dyedeggs #artandfarming #art #farm ..read more
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
2w ago
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
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
1M ago
"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
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
1M ago
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
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
1M ago
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
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
1M ago
And the Oscar for best stunt actress goes to… Henrietta
An Oscar for Stunts may still be in discussions with the Academy, but at Hilltops free range we already have an award winner! This chook does it all: jumping onto a moving vehicle, balancing - quite remarkably well, without too much flapping of wings - onto a moving vehicle, sneaking between gates and jumping gracefully - one could say ‘flying off’ - a moving vehicle
Farm life is way ahead of the Oscars
#stunts #chickens #pasturedeggs #movingvehicle #oscars #farmlife
Photography by Paula ..read more
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
1M ago
When we started, we decided to build our own chicken caravans because we wanted to have the birds all the time outdoors, without floors, and directly on the soil, along with bugs and grass and sun. There was nothing commercially available.
We have experimented with so many different materials and components, it’s fun to compose and reinvent with every new flock. Now we are experimenting with furniture components and this chook was keen to give it a test drive.
#keep #innovating #keep #improving #chicken #furniture #pastured #pasturedeggs ..read more
Hilltops Free Range Eggs Blog
2M ago
"Joy does not arrive with a fanfare,
on a red carpet strewn with the flowers of a perfect life.
Joy sneaks in, as you pour a cup of coffee,
watching the sun hit your favourite tree, just right.
And you usher joy away,
because you are not ready for it.
Your house is not as it must be,
for such a distinguished guest.
But joy cares nothing for your messy home,
or your bank-balance,
or your waistline, you see.
Joy is supposed to slither through the cracks of your imperfect life,
that’s how joy works.
You cannot invite her, you can only be ready when she appears.
And hug her with meaning,
because ..read more