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The Perfect Eggs

April 11, 2017 By Kristin Leave a Comment

I love eggs! We raise hens and its a good thing because we eat and use a lot of eggs in our house. The kids love to grab them for a snack hard boiled, I wanted to share the best recipe for hard boiled eggs.

Eggs are all natural and packed with a number of nutrients.

One egg has lots of vitamins and minerals, high-quality protein and antioxidants, all for 70 calories. The nutrients in eggs can play a role in weight management, muscle strength, healthy pregnancy, brain function, eye health and more. At less than 15 cents apiece, eggs are an affordable and delicious anytime option.

The protein in eggs is the highest-quality protein found in any food. The high-quality protein in eggs provides the mental and physical energy families need for important days.

The nutrient package of eggs aids in the following:

  • Weight management: The high-quality protein in eggs helps you to feel fuller longer and stay energized, which contributes to maintaining a healthy weight.
  • Muscle strength and muscle-loss prevention: Research indicates that high-quality protein may help active adults build muscle strength and help prevent muscle loss in middle-aged and aging adults.
  • Healthy pregnancy: Egg yolks are an excellent source of choline, an essential nutrient that contributes to fetal brain development and helps prevent birth defects. Two eggs provide about 250 milligrams of choline, or roughly half of the recommended daily intake for pregnant and breastfeeding women.
  • Brain function: Choline also aids the brain function of adults by maintaining the structure of brain cell membranes, and is a key component of the neuro-transmitter that helps relay messages from the brain through nerves to the muscles.
  • Eye health: Lutein and zeaxanthin, two antioxidants found in egg yolks, help prevent macular degeneration, a leading cause of age-related blindness. Though eggs contain a small amount of these two nutrients, research shows that the lutein from eggs may be more bioavailable than lutein from other food sources.

 

Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs
 
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Author: Kristin Reese
Ingredients
  • Eggs
Instructions
  1. Use a pan that is large enough for all the eggs to be in one layer fill with just enough water to cover the eggs when you add them. Bring water to a roaring boil. Carefully (I use a spoon) add the eggs to the boiling water. Set your timer for 15 minutes and let the eggs cook at a boil. When the timer goes off immediately drain the boiling water and put eggs in ice water or run cold water over them. Your eggs will peel like a dream!
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Filed Under: Breakfast, Food, Main Dish, Recipes Tagged With: easter, Eggs, hard boiled, recipes Leave a Comment

It is National Poultry Day!

March 19, 2012 By Kristin Leave a Comment

Happy National Poultry Day! Did you know: Ohio produces nearly 328 million pounds of chicken each year and is ranked 10th nationally in turkey production.  Ohio’s egg, chicken and turkey farms create more than 16,850 jobs generating $385 million in earnings to the state’s economy.” Ohio Means AgriBusiness!

 Here are some photos of the eggs and chickens at our house. Also be sure to check out one of my CommonGround turkey farmers website! http://www.onthebanksofsquawcreek.blogspot.com/


Our hens lay brown eggs! They lay 1 egg each day. Sometimes
they get a little lazy and take a day off. 



A hen is a female chicken. They begin laying eggs around 17-21
weeks of age, depending on the breed.

This is a Barred Rock hen. She is one of the kids favorites.

Parker is in charge of the egg collecting. He is
getting better about not breaking as many eggs.
He is still in training.
Our hen house has nesting boxes for
the girls (hens) to lay their eggs.

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Ag Week in Ohio: What a 4 year old thinks!

March 13, 2012 By Kristin Leave a Comment

Happy Ohio Ag Week to all my friends. There are lots of things going on this week to celebtrate Agriculture in Ohio. Campbell and Parker love agriculture and they love to cook too. This evening Campbell asked if she could fix dinner. She chose the eggs which she just collected for the hen house, ham from farmer Brandt’s pig and cheese from an unknown Dairy farmer.  She puts it all together and has a perfect easy and healthy meal. She may be the next generation of Food Network!
Campbell has been cracking eggs since she was 2, she is a pro!
What is Agriculture in the eyes of a 4 year old? “It’s farming mommy. I like tractors but when I grow up I want to be a veternarian of horses.”



Tada! Great meal in less than 5 minutes. Looks like
Parker even wants some!





Add in some cheese and ham.



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Filed Under: agriculture Tagged With: Ag Week, Eggs, food network, ham, horses, kids, ohio, vet Leave a Comment

March Comes in like a Lamb

March 6, 2012 By Kristin Leave a Comment

March came in like a LAMB! It is that time again to sell some lambs. Yesterday the kids and I took a trip across town and sold some lambs to Blystone Farms. Whenever I head out anywhere with a trailer full of sheep and two small children there is bound to be some type of excitement. To my surprise, we made it there and got the sheep and children unloaded without any issues.

There have been a few trips when I had to pull over the truck and trailer three times because a certain child thought it was funny to unbuckle their seat belt and then there was the time when one of the lambs jumped over the gate at the farm and was running loose, I guess he didn’t want to know how much he weighed that day.

This is a short video blog of our trip.

Once the lambs are tagged, the customer can go to the barn sale pen and pick out their sheep, goat or even steer and have it processed. Blystone Farms has a large ethnic customer base. It is very traditional in their cultures to see the animal live and then leave the farm with the processed animal. Their customers have a very deep respect for animals and their health and safety. The customer can see the animals that their family is going to eat and know that they are buying quality, healthy protein.

Once the lambs are weighed, we go inside to the new retail shop to settle up on our sales. We are paid for our lambs on a per pound basis. It is very important that we keep our lambs between a certain weight to obtain the highest dollar amount. Most customers like their lambs to be between 135-140lbs. At Blystone Farms their customer sometimes like a little smaller lamb and this is based on tradition and costs. As mentioned in the video, each lamb is given a letter based on weight. The letter of the sheep is written on a board by the sale pen and the customer knows exactly what they will pay for their animal.

You can stop by the farm, just outside of Canal Winchester, or call and let them know what you would like and they will have it just the way you want it whether it be a half of beef or a whole lamb.

The new retail meat case is now open. They have been working for months to get their retail custom shop up and running. It is really nice inside and their meat looks and taste great. If you do not wish to purchase a whole animal, you can now buy it by the individual cut. If you live in the central Ohio area you should stop by to see their family operation. They sell beef, poultry, eggs, lamb and goat. If you stop by, there may even be some of our lamb in the case.

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Filed Under: agriculture, family, local, poultry, Sheep Tagged With: beef, Canal Winchester, Eggs, family business, kids, Ohio Sheep Improvement Association, trailer, video Leave a Comment

Large Scale vs. Me

October 18, 2011 By Kristin Leave a Comment

I am currently in the AgriPower IV class through the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. This is a program that selects 20 individuals each year to participate and hone their leadership skills, learn more about the organization and politics. Over the next year I will spend 17 days with my classmates and staff from the Ohio Farm Bureau. At the end of September in Columbus, we met with many elected officials including state Auditor, Secretary of State, state legislators, Director of Agriculture and Governor Kasich. I am sure I have left someone out but it was an excellent opportunity to learn how our government works and how everything fits together.

After our formal meetings, we left Columbus and headed toward Raymond, OH to visit New Day Farms. This is a farm that houses laying hens and also has a processing facility for broken out eggs. It was a very large poultry facility to the eyes of most.

This farm was truly amazing. It had been nearly 10 years since I had toured a farm like this and I must say it was fascinating. We live in a society where people are very removed from the origins of their food. Children think their milk comes from the grocery store, eggs come from the refrigerator case and when you open the door it moos and clucks as an effort to help bridge the gap. When I was growing up I never realized how lucky I was to be raised on a farm. I often thought it was hard work and sometimes got tired of missing out on fun things with my friends because I was doing chores or working with animals.

After living in town for a few years after getting married, Matt and I realized just how lucky we were to grow up in rural America. While the town life was easier we knew we wanted to raise a family in the country. Our neighbors thought we were a bit strange when we would pull up in front of our house with a livestock trailer full of sheep. Our old neighbors who are now very dear friends asked us what we were doing with those sheep in town. We told them they were going in the backyard to mow and fertilize. We were clearly joking but they had concern in their eyes.

We raise layers on our farm and invite all of our friends to come see the hens that produce the eggs they purchase from us. Their children like to collect the eggs in a pretty basket. Our egg production is old fashioned and fun but not nearly as sophisticated, clean or efficient as New Day Farms and most poultry farms across the country.

Most uninformed consumers think big is bad! I as a small rural Ohio farmer am here to say Bigger is Better. My customers pay a premium for our natural antibiotic-free farm fresh eggs. New Day Farms feeds no antibiotics to their hens either. The hens have fresh water and food all the time on demand. I was most fascinated that the farm works with a poultry nutritionist who changes the hens’ diets to adjust for what their nutritional needs are week by week. When the hen lays an egg, is rolls onto a mini conveyor belt which heads straight to the processing end of the farm. All the manure is automatically dropped onto another belt system which dries and is discarded multiple times per week. Can you guess how many flies were in the barn? I did not see one fly the entire time I was there. It smelled a little like a chicken but no odor or smells of manure. The barn is temperature controlled for comfort and is on automatic light timers to ensure proper day and night schedules. Another fun fact about this large farm is that everything on the farm is composted. Even the egg shells are composted into lime which is sold locally. I would have loved to take photos but due to liability, which I understand, we were not allowed to take photos.

I would like to add that this farm takes great care to ensure a safe healthy animal and end product. I had to stay out of my own chicken barn for 72 hours prior to visiting and was in a full plastic coverall and hair net. After seeing this farm, I feel 100% safe buying eggs from the store and so glad we live in a country that values animal safety and consumer health.

The buy local movement is huge and I am fortunate to be a part of it. I love to buy local and I appreciate having this option. Do I always buy local? No, it is not always easy and frankly it sometimes costs more. Larger farms allow for a more cost effective food. Just because something is produced on a larger scale does not make it bad or change the nutritional content. Good, safe food, comes from well cared for birds whether they are on a large, or small, farm. Did you know that we are only 9 meals away from going hungry? Keep reading later this week as I will share more about hunger, food supply and Food Day coming up in one week. Every Day is Food Day to a Farmer.

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