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What did you do over the weekend?

How was your weekend? What did you learn/find/discover over the weekend? What did you celebrate? How did you relax and remember to breathe? Our weekend was busy followed by some waiting. Waiting is a challenge, isn't it? Our friend Jeff says we have a tendency to wish our lives away. We spend so much time wishing and waiting for some event we lose a part of our lives. Waiting is contrary to our societal and cultural personality. This is part of NowHere. We have said

NOTE: This post has been edited because Virginia's math wasn't mathing. We have chickens. We have 10 Rhode Island Reds ~ 1 rooster and 9 hens ~ and 11 Buff Orpingtons ~ 1 rooster and 10 hens. This means we have 39 hens. Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpingtons are good, solid, steady layers. The Rhode Island Reds will lay 200-300/year and the Buff Orpingtons will lay 200-280/year. If you take the mid-range (240) that means we should be getting 4,560 eggs/year or 12-13 eggs

We had a lovely time at the Coastal Alabama Farmers and Fishermen's Market today. So many of you stopped to say Good morning and visit and it was a delight to see each of you! One thing we offer our customers is copies of some of our favorite recipes, mostly for quail eggs. Unfortunately I did not have any copies of my favorite pickled egg recipe and I promised I would post this here this evening. I love this particular recipe. The mix of salty soy sauce with the honey,

Welcome! We are glad you decided to drop in for a visit today. Grab a mug of coffee ~ or a cuppa tea if that is how you roll ~ and sit with us for a while. We are Mark and Virginia and this is Now Here Farms. We named our home Now Here as a tip of the hat to the author Brennan Manning who taught us that it is better to live in the Now and the Here rather than the Then and the There. We use the name to remind ourselves of that, and to remember to live in the New rather th