Farm Box Experiment: Farm-fresh Eggs

[jennreese]

Inspired by a desire to eat better and support local farms, I joined a CSA/Farm Box organization. The way it works: I signed up and told them what I wanted - a small box of mixed veggies and fruits. (There are large boxes, boxes for juicing, and fruit-only boxes, as other examples.) I added on a loaf of bread and a dozen farm-fresh eggs. Each week

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[birdhousefrog]

And people wonder why we had chickens on our 10 acres in Virginia...

The yolk is also yellower for other reasons. 1) Better feed, healthier feed; 2) younger chickens. The yellow is from their bodies, in part, the legs of a young chicken are beautifully yellow.

Fresh eggs fluff up better, whip up better.

The one thing you don't do with fresh eggs is to hard boil them. There's too little air between the sac and the shell. They don't peel. Takes about 2 weeks to be able to do hard boiling.

To test whether an egg is older? Put it in water and if it floats, it's older. If it doesn't float, it's a very fresh egg.

Store eggs can be six months old and still be considered "fresh."

Just little egg factoids from a fresh egg fanatic. The first thing I found on Long Island was a poultry farm. We may end up raising a few of our own again, but not right away.

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[mindyklasky]

The thing that surprised me about my first farm-fresh eggs was how thick the shells were!

Enjoy yours!