End-of-life issues have been troubling me lately, specifically, What do you do when a hen stops laying?A recent egg shortage in Mexico has rekindled our plans to build a chicken coop but there are many details and ramifications that need to be explored.Our gardener Félix is all excited. He keeps a rotating cavalcade of animals …
Tag: organic farming
Roasting Matilda
With Barbara and Camille's Kingsolver's rhapsodies about eating foods grown locally by independent small farmers still resonating in my head, I decided to try an experiment involving eggs. Stew had been complaining about supermarket-bought eggs having too-fragile shells and yolks. A friend who raises his own chickens theorizes that's because hens at nearby American-style factory …
El Rancho Santa Clara 