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storing eggs
Something I very much like about England is the tradition of storing eggs without refrigeration. In the shops eggs are found stacked on shelves, half a dozen in a box. At home I’ve become rather fond...
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hen-sitting
What a delight, to take care of chickens! A friend of ours in a nearby village has four beautiful hens, and we went over to take care of them while she was away. My tall girl has been ill and couldn’t...
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plant-dyed eggs
Happy equinox! Spring is blooming on the Pacific coast, and Easter is going to arrive earlier than I’d expected. We refine our plant-dyeing a little more every year in pursuit of some brightly coloured...
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dyeing eggs
Gathering for the vernal equinox, a rite in celebration of spring, of the growing light and all the beautiful food that comes with it – this is what Gather Victoria set about to do. I laid a table in...
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incubating eggs
Hatching eggs have arrived at the lakeside cottage! With great joy we opened our post box to find a box of hatching eggs from a heritage breeder in Northern BC. These are marked with letters indicating...
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candling eggs
On the eleventh day of incubation, we candled a couple of the chicken eggs. Shining a bright light behind the warm little egg, you can just make out a mass in the middle of it, and veining lines all...
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a hatching egg movie
Watching our incubating eggs pipping, then zipping, then hatching, was such an extraordinary thing. I thought you might like to see a time-lapse of our firstborn chick. Sped up, the rhythm is quite...
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newly hatched chicks
Everyone gathered round the incubator to watch the hatch. Around the 21st day of incubating, the pipping began. Having spent a lifetime with eggs that do not move or cheep, an egg that does is...
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