Documenting my daily hands-on education in how to live a healthy, thoughtful, slow, connected, fulfilling, empowered, and delicious life in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I am a 24 year old doula, holistic health counselor, web designer, photographer, property manager, and aspiring herbalist and urban farmer.
Topics
Holistic Health and NutritionHerbalism & Home Remedies
Food Recipes
Homesteading
BeekeepingBirthi love
• Spontaneous Overflow• Browns Downtown Bees
• Mother Nature Gardens
• Sunstone Farm
• For the Love of Bees
• ABQ Old School
• Holy Scrap Hot Springs
• Jaunty Dame
This morning Silvia found the first eggs from our baby chickens, which we have had since 6 weeks old. They are now about 6 months old and we were starting to get concerned that they had not started laying yet. Also, our older hens have just about stopped laying for the season, and we have been more or less without eggs for over a month.
Out of excitement, I went out to examine the coop and found one of the nesting boxes surprisingly full of blue-green eggs! We have two sets of laying boxes, and Silvia must have checked the one where the older chickens lay their eggs. While I was looking at the lovely pile of bright blue eggs, Lola came running into the coop and stood territorially over them. Once she left I scooped them all up into my arms (and felt super guilty about it). In the first picture you can see a little white ping pong ball that I put in the box to “inspire” them to start laying. Guess it finally worked!
Hooray for beautiful new eggs at our little backyard farm…now time for a celebratory quiche!
BLT made with the most amazingly delicious New Mexico farmer’s market bacon of my life. And eggs from our laying ladies, of course.
Beautiful yellow-yolk fried up delicious eggs, courtesy of Rosie.
