We missed you so much!
#sun #autumn #eggs #pastured #sunshine #sunisback #rainyseason #autumnleaves #lovethesun #lineup
We are all lining up to see you!
We missed you so much! #sun #autumn #eggs #pastured #sunshine #sunisback #rainyseason #autumnleaves #lovethesun #lineup "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, with her favourite puppy 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 “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 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" “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 Feeling eggstra special today at the egg farm. Enjoy a holiday to dye for 😃
#easter #eggpuns #pastured #eggs #dyedeggs #artandfarming #art #farm 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 Royal Easter Show, would be happy to see you there! #champion #eggs #pastured #2024royaleastershow #besteggs #hardwork #reward #teamwork "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 #attheendoftheday #lonelyhour --from the poem "A Walk at Sunset" by William Cullen Bryant Photography by Paula 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 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 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 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 Incredible, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, inordinate and enormous: we have run out of words to describe this record-breaking egg, which tipped the scales at 138g this week! All records are broken, Guiness is preparing a completely new book, a new champion is crowned.
And we are in search of a new word for this specimen - 'egg' is too simple. We need something grander! Eggosaurus? Egg-ephant? Gig-egg? What is your word for this champion? #giant #egg #champion #thebiggest #pastured #eggs #doubleyolk #worldrecord #enormous #extreme #incredible #recordbreaking #thebiggestegg #hugeegg #newword #nowords -- Photography by Haydn "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 in this very moment, joy chose you." We've had a lot of long days lately, crawling on hands and knees, settling our new chickens in. Early mornings, late nights, stressful emergencies. And then you come across this: the perfect egg, perfectly placed on the perfect grass in the perfect light. And you realise: THE JOY! It does not matter that your clothes - and hair - have mud, poo, dirt, dust, grease, thorns, and gaping holes. The perfect joy has arrived. #thejoy #perfectegg #pastured #eggs #farmlife #perfectfind #hardwork #young #chickens --from the poem "Joy" by Donna Ashworth POV: when all your friends think it’s a shade, but you believe it’s a hammock 🤣🤣🤣
To be young and to think differently, this is all it takes to change the world. Just one hen with a vision, and just enough bravery to think outside the shade 🤣 #think #different #bebrave #bebold #pastured #eggs #freedomtoroam #theview #hammock #topoftheworld #hen #young The best real estate on a rainy day: under the tractor, room with a view, watching the grass grow with every minute
#rainydays #pastured #eggs #freedomtoroam #tractor #dryplace #theview #grassgrow "Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, anything."
After the chickens have been roaming through each paddock, they move to a new paddock, and we use the area for putting crops in. Chicken fertiliser is like gold, and with the recent wonderful rains, even in day or two, the ground is turning into a sea of green. Who wouldn't give anything for this brown-red gold? #ploughed #chickenfertiliser #after #rain #green #grass #eggs #pasture #rotational #farming #cropping #browngold #soil #farming #sustainable --quote from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1 That moment when you break 6 eggs and get 12 yolks 😊
Our double-yolkers, giant eggs, are often more than 100g each egg, and they always make me smile! 😊 The biggest one we measured so far weighed a whooping 128g! (see our blog with the biggest egg so far) May everyone’s New Year be starting with double the joy - and double the rain for our Hilltops Area! #giants #eggs #pastured #yolks #records #doublejoy #newyearjoy "Ring out the old, and ring in the new,
Another year passes, but one thing is true, A thousand small blessings have slipped through my hands, Moments uncountable, vast as the sands." Looking forward to a new year of green pastures, clearer skies and uncountable small blessings! Happy New Year to all. #newyear #newday #Maremma #farmlife #pastured #eggs #hens #happynewyear -- from the poem "Happy New Year!" by Angela Jelf Photography by Haydn Spectacular sunrise, followed by a sandstorm and winds from the Dune movie, followed by a lightning storm that scares grown-up dogs but not the puppies, followed by Telstra 4G disappearing, followed by the usual power cuts, followed by nurturing, marvelous rain!
The chooks and I are ready to do it all over again 😊 #ruralllife #AustralianOutback #farmilfe #pasturedeggs #chickensroaming #chooks #freerange #sunrise #redsunrise #spectacular #nofilter #rain #farmingday I’ve seen the hawk! Should I run and hide
Or ride the red bike? (This chicken was thinking) #redbike #pastured #chickens #eggs #freerange #hawk #farmlife #quadbike #roamingaround "Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby", For when the rain is finished, the sky's blue is the clearest, and the chook's dinner forage is the most bountiful supply of worms from the soft ground. -- from the poem "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes. The American poet just had the month mixed up, should be the 'November Rain Song' for Down Under, on the last day before Summer starts. #rain #sun #worms #forage #freedom #pasturedeggs #pastureraised #beforesummer #lastdayofspring #spring #eggs #poetry #farmlife "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one ... I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder." Dear Cloud Rain, you have been most welcome. 😊 We had been missing on the rain clouds for a few days now, so very glad to have you here. 😊 #cloud #rain #sky #farmlife #pasturedeggs #pasture #nofilter -- from the poem "The Cloud" by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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