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Free Range Eggs
http://freerangereggs.blogspot.com
A Blog designed to give information and receive feedback about consumer attitudes to free range egg production. We operate a free range farm in Australia and our aim is to run the business as a fully sustainable operation.
- Author: Phil Westwood
- Listed in: Food & Drink Green Small Business
- Tags: free range eggs sustainable farming eggs riparian vegetation consumer survey
Recent Posts
Carbon Credit \'Offsets\' a sham
It's looking increasingly unlikely that anything positive will emerge from the Copenhagen talkfest on climate change.And to make things worse, a United Nations board has decided that soya, palm oil and other agrofuel plantations can now receive ...
New flock is out exploring
Our new flock of 300 fifteen week old Isa Brown pullets are spending their days exploring their paddock. Here are some of them under a stand of eucalypts.There are two mobile sheds in the paddock but many of the young hens prefer to roost i...
Paul Mercurio on the farm
Paul Mercurio, host of Channel 7's Mercurio's Menu came down to the farm during the week to video a segment on eggs for an upcoming show.The crew spent a couple of hours on the farm filming Paul collecting eggs and then packing them in the grading ro...
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We've started to eat this year's crop of garlic and we are very pleased with the quality. We eat heaps of garlic because of its flavour, it's especially delicious with eggs, roast beef or lamb, cooked with pasta and greens, in fresh tomato ...
Garlic almost ready for harvesting
Our first crop of garlic is just about ready to harvest and we will probably have our first sales at the Chuchill Island Farmers' Market next Saturday (November 28).It takes a long time to grow and takes heaps of weeding but the end re...
Burn, Burn, Burn
On the farm we are getting ready for summer and what is usually seen as the fire season. I must say I find it rather pathetic that we now appear to have autumn, winter, spring and the fire season. Climate change may be upon us but most of our challan...
