Hippychick's Gardens

hippychick's super-d-lovely eggs are booming - cheers for local organic fed chickeny egg sellers!  the chickenchicas at hippychick's gardens provide beautiful fresh eggs daily.

*i feed the ladies locally milled coyote creek organic feed. they also enjoy organically grown greens, tomatoes and the occasional melon from the garden, along with any goodies they can scratch up with their own two chickeny feets.

-- $4.oo per dozen (brown, white, blue green, dark brown - each carton is a mixed dozen)

also available at the farmstead

-- fresh ginger lemon kombucha tea, kombucha starter kits

-- home preserved and canned - peaches, stewed tomatoes, tomatoe sauce and blueberry ginger jam.

email me @ hippychickenfarmer@gmail.com - - all sales cash only -- hippychick's gardens is a hand to hand sustainable ad-venture.  come on by!

- future egg layers round the hippychick homestead - thirteen in all and happy little peepers are they.  i've housed them up in the freshly cleaned tin shed coop.

• they've got sweet smelling pine shavings, bright light, clean water and munchies for their delight.  
• i keep a small fan blowing about as it gets pretty darn hot in our central texas parts.  
• i've covered the entrance to the outdoor run with fine mesh wire for now.  the wee ones are not yet ready for the big world.  soon enough they will be, soon enough i am sure.  

what kind of lovelies might they be?  i'll tell ya..

• ameraucana - layers of blue and/or bluegreen eggs - with puffy cheek and chin feathers (3 ladies)
• barnevelder - layers ofvery dark reddish eggs - lovely brown flecked ladies (3 ladies)
• dominique - layers ofbrown eggs - beautiful lookers with black and white barred markings (4 ladies)
• welsummer - layers of rich terra cotta brown eggs - red heads, what more can i say (3 ladies)

the good news for these girls is that now that there is a friendly man in the hippychick universe, the chickies enjoy not only the love and affections of their chickenmama but that of their chickendaddy too.

woo - chickie - woo -woo!

i just checked in on the wee birdies and they are doing more than fine.  several were snoozing.  others were admiring the fine view and others were pecking away at the tin - i imagine making music or sending out the wee chick rap to the rest of the girls on the homestead.

• soft boil um'
• eaten over rye crackers
• eaten over steamed greens
• eaten over soups
• eaten over crusty bread
• eaten solo with fingers - yummy!

• hard boil um'
• quick snacks
• nice sliced on crackers with fresh veggies and maters

• poach um'
• love them poached if you're feeling fancy 

• make a few good quiche
• always a good way to use up some extra eggs
• 1 pie crust baked half way and/or to directions on package
• 6 eggs beaten
• 1/2 cup milk
• dash salt
• dash pepper
• double dash of nutmeg
• fillings - cheese, veggies, shrimps or fish, sausage or whatever you might think of...

heat your oven to 350?f and/or bake pie crust as per directions on package.  bake only half way, you want to finish the baking as you bake the egg mixture in the crust.

 while the pie crust is baking, beat eggs, milk, salt, pepper and nutmeg together.  set aside.  remove the pie crust from the oven when baked half way.  place any fillings you wish into the pie crust.    slowly pour the egg mixture on top of the fillings.

place the pie pan into the oven and bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until done.  the quiche will rise in the oven and fall once cooled - do not panic.  it's a natural process.  allow the quiche to cool or risk a burnt tongue.  quiche stores well in the fridge and is easily enjoyed hot or cool.

• eat our eggs aside morning eggy muffins 
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• dash of salt
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• if you like i go without since i use raw whole milk
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup half organic white
• 1/2 cup organic whole wheat

heat oven to 350 ?f.  grease or spray muffin pan.  mix batter in a blender or food processor, just until mixed and a bit creamy.  pour batter into muffin pan filling only 1/2 high.  bake for 30-40 minutes depending upon the true heat of your oven.  turn out onto a cooling rack.  enjoy warm or cool.

and there are other ways too

• rice pudding, custard and a good iced cream which i have yet to make for fear of eating the whole of the batch all in one go.  i am a big fan of each so it's best i not resort to puddings and custards and creams unless a hoard of hungry company is on the way.

today's dinner will include these homegrown goodies

• carrots
• roma beans
• artichokes
• beets
• pesto

all sounds good to me, when's dinner?

there is much to do today - a friend gifted me with a large boot box full of green gage plums. so to greengage jam it is and a few plum tarts i thinks too.  sound yummy?  let's hope so.

have a great day folks!  cheery cheer cheers to you.

• going up for tenure at a big university - readying files and documents and more documents - this takes much time and thought - we'll know in late december if i get to keep my university job... nuf' on that
• advising, reading and editing thesis from several of my superfine now graduating graduate students
  
• cultivating a relationship with a lovely man - a very nice addition to recent days - he's a great fellow and a fine farm hand too - he's quite flirty with the chickenychicas and they like that...
  
• keeping the farm running - four hands are better than two i do believe i do believe
  
• gardening - more to come on this - we've had good rains as of late - fingers crossed they keep on coming
  
• beekeeping - one hive is now at seven supers high the other at three - looks like i'll be harvesting honey real soon
  
• putting up foods - maters maters and more maters - i collect the not so beautiful from a local farm stand - they don't have to be pretty to taste good in my world
  
• making yogurts - just ran out - time to makes me some more!
  
• playing in the mud with me birthday boyman at the austin texas muddy buddy - we finished smiling thank you very much!
• cheering on my favored chelsea fb team - now champions of both the premiere fb league and the fa cup finals - go blues!
• keeping up with family and friends
• nursing an injured ankle - kind of - i'm a bad bad patient