The egg battle continues

 

Our hens are continuing to lay eggs at a rate faster than we can use them or give them away. So we have continued to have egg based meals. We've also trawled through cookery books looking for interesting recipes. Anyway here are three more egg dinners we've had recently. Above - scrambled eggs on toast.

Yorkshire pudding with baked vegetables.

Egg curry with egg fried rice.

Tractor envy!

 

We have been using a rotovator recently to plough up the top of field one so we can plant a potato crop. It is a long and arduous task. Imagine the envy we felt when we looked over the hedge to the next farm where a giant tractor was ploughing up in seconds what was taking us hours to do! Here's the video!

Creating a market garden

 

We have put aside about an acre of our farm to create a market garden to grow fruit and vegetables. The grass here has not been ploughed in living memory so getting the rotovator to bite into the earth was something of a challenge.

Egg recipes

 

Our hens started laying late this year. Normally they start around New Year. This time they started around the end of February. They are however making up for lost time. We now have an egg mountain which seems to get bigger by the day. We are trying every egg recipe going. Above is that old trusty dish - an omelette.

Above is a savoury bread and butter pudding which conveniently used up some of our goat cheese and breadcrumbs.

Flan with chips (made from our own potatoes.

There will be plenty more egg recipes coming up!

First lambs of the year

 

We have our first lambs of the year, 2 girls.

Plum brandy

 

We made this plum brandy last year and left it to mature over the winter. Very pleasant. The plums will be stoned and then go into the sweet mince we will make in the autumn.

Grass

 

The grass is growing. That means lots of free food for the goats. All I have to do is pick it. I gathered 2 sacks today. They loved it.

In the wrong field

 

One of the fences on our farm had fallen over. Result: some of our sheep wandered into the field belonging to the neighbouring stables. It was time to check out what repairs were needed.