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Last Wednesday saw the arrival of seven organic hens to the Farm. A gift from a farmer in nearby Hancock, NH, they are mature White Plymouth Rocks, Black Australorps, and Silver-Laced Wyandotes. Our new lodgers are allowed free reign of the farm, and they spend their days scratching in the dirt for worms, climbing their coop (although disdaining to enter it whenever one needs them to) and making lawn mowing extremely difficult.

Non-humans now outnumber humans on the farm by a factor of nearly five. This is a slightly disturbing reality, but the imbalance bears nutritious advantages. Our hens are in the prime of their egg-laying careers and we harvest six to seven eggs each day. They taste much better than any we’ve ever taken home from the grocery store, and their yolks are a deep orange.

However, lacking the moral fortitude and arterial strength to consume all seven each day, the Farm is amassing a backlog of these breakfast staples. Only five days into our menagerie, stacks of cardboard egg-cartons have already come to dominate the refrigerator. Our new crisis is how to manage this sudden bounty – a forty-egg omelet?

Written by robin on 05/06/2010 in AITA In The Wild | Blog | Food | The Farm

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Let's build a drive-through-teller-style (but more gentle) egg chute from NH to Philly. I'll eat em.
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