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With a large egg recall being announced the past couple of days, it’s a good time to remind you of the details of that plus a few tips on making sure you are being food safe when it comes to eggs. From the Washington Post: Federal officials say nearly 207 million eggs have been recalled […] Read more…
Note from Lara: Here’s a post I wrote for Agriculture.com this week and I felt it was worth the share here too. It’s reprinted with permission from Successful Farming/Meredith Corporation. Given the choice of $.99 a dozen conventionally-raised eggs or $5.99 a dozen cage-free eggs, which would you choose to buy for your family? If […] Read more…
Happy Friday, everyone! I just had to write up a quick post to tell you that my blogger friend, Sara, over at It’s Mom Sense is writing an entire series on “Breaking Down the Labels” for food and this week she focuses on eggs! Sara is a Midwestern girl who currently lives in Portland, Oregon with her […] Read more…
A while back I found the most lovely blog, Beef and Sweet Tea, about a 5th generation beef cattle farm in the south. (Or perhaps the blogger, Emily, found me. I can’t quite remember exactly how that worked.) I am not ashamed to admit I am completely enamored of the way Emily writes. It’s very […] Read more…
Confession: I’m not terribly good at making New Year’s resolutions. For the past several months, however, I’ve been on a bit of a mission to make sure I’m feeding my family a variety of foods and cooking more from scratch with fresh ingredients whenever possible. (Honestly, I think I blame this partly on Pinterest. I’ve […] Read more…
The only reason for my post today is show you the coolest way I have ever seen to separate the egg yolk from the egg white. Full disclosure: I have not tried this at home. Yet. But you can bet I will! This looks pretty darn amazing compared to the old-fashioned method of separating the […] Read more…
I’m kicking the new year off with some good news! Remember when I wrote about how the egg industry and egg farmers made such great improvements in its environmental impact? (You can read that post here.) I found out that many other aspects of agriculture are doing the same! For example, pig farms are producing […] Read more…
As I head into the New Year, I took a few moments this morning to check out my most-read posts of 2013. It’s always fun to look back to see what really got shared by readers! Not all of these were written in 2013, including my #1 most popular post of all time about pheasant […] Read more…