My Farm Kitchen...

Our first ever goose egg! Laid today- G. watched the goose lay it and promptly, in good African style, ran up behind, grabbed it away from the unsuspecting goose and brought her trophy in the house. It's sitting next to some fresh chicken eggs. I love this picture!

I love my kitchen. It's a "farm kitchen" even though I technically live on a ranch. It's got a big, curved window overlooking my pasture and all the way across this part of the valley to the foothills. I can see two mountains on a clear day.

Here's my Jen Air stove where our meals are cooked and where the oils and beeswax and butters are melted for soaping and other beauty products.

The old chick feeder with pip berry is hanging from ribbon above in the cubby space. I found it in an old shed that now houses my Boer goats.

On my kitchen counter for most of the year is a real treat- farm fresh eggs. Daily there are fresh eggs waiting to be scrambled, fried, or baked...look at the variety! Aren't they gorgeous? You can't compare farm fresh eggs to some nasty, chemical coated, look-alike factory eggs. Not even close!

When we have a new layer just starting her career of supplying us, this often happens...do you see the tiny little greenish egg? Isn't that cute? I always cook those up even though they sometimes don't have a yolk, like this one, for the smaller kids. They love it.

I couldn't help but to snap a quick picture of one afternoon's gathering results- I love that you never know quite what you're going to get. See the difference in sizes? There's the tiny one, and then two others with slightly different size and color.

I love our fresh eggs, milk, and whatever else we have in any given season of the year. If you can't grow it yourself, at least buy local from someone who can. The taste is superior by far, as well as better nutrition.

My kitchen is always busy. In my kitchen these are some of the things that go on...

soap making

dehydrating

grain grinding

coffee sipping and chatting

Bible study

homeschooling

bathing just-butchered chickens or turkeys & preparing for the freezer

lotion bar making

pancake griddling

bread kneading

kefir fermenting

buttermilk culturing

raw beet pickling

salad tossing

goat milk cheese making

Magazine browsing

....and this is just the start. I love my kitchen!