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Monday, December 10, 2012

asunlitwalk

I make positive affirmation cards that have helped me to change my life for the better.   Miracle cures for our problems are in our hands to create or to "miscreate".  

asunlitwalk.blogspot.com is the blog where I post my cards.  You may view them, use them or print them for free but you may not sell them without my permission.  There are three more examples at the bottom of this posting.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/110527092/332-full-color-photo-positive is a link to Etsy where I am selling the collection on either an SD card and on a flashdrive.  



Rump and Chuck, the Roast brothers were raised on revolving green pasture until the heat of the summer dried up everything.  After that they ate local grass hay and store bought grain.

Rump was taken away two days ago.  Half of him will come back to our freezer.  The other half was paid for by a customer and will go into their freezer.

I watched Chuck through the ordeal because I was concerned about how he would handle it.  He was alert and intent on the workers.  I nearly had to thump his bum to get him to follow me and I was shaking a can of grain.  He reluctantly went back to barn with me but ate with a healthy appetite.  

I closed the gate where the activity had occurred for several hours but when I opened it, he trotted to the site and sniffed curiously.  He stood where his brother had last stood and gazed out into the yard as if he would see him there.

He has not bellowed and he has not acted out any human reactions.  He is the only bovine here but that day and the next day I noticed that the ducks and the cat were in the pasture with him.   The cat didn't not like to hang with Rump because he was a bit frisky.  Chuck is quite calm.   

Both nearly steers were not steers at all.  I suspect the person who did the banding may have done it while they were too young. 

I am tempted to let Chuck roam the yard but I think he might choose to hang out on my deck when he isn't munching the perennials. 
This is our new egg label.   Eggs are a tiny part of what makes up this farm.  

The chickens are free range when I can watch them.  My flock has been greatly reduced by coyotes so I've been more careful about when I let them be free.  My version of free range means that I open the door and they can go where they want.   They may fly in the trees or scratch in the gardens.

When they are locked up they have about 200 square feet of earth they may scratch.  This counts as free range technically but it isn't good enough to keep really healthy chickens.

I dream of a fence good enough to keep the coyotes out.  

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, is an ethical practice that might distract from our lovely egg label but it is important to us.  We reuse only clean paper egg cartons and plop our label over the existing label.

Today I noticed that my half dozen eggs are boxed in cartons I cut in half which sport the phrase "12 eggs" on the original label.  I don't worry that any customer of mine won't be able to tell the difference between one dozen eggs and six eggs.

The First Day

Today is the first day of the Emerald Aisle Farm Blog.
Today is the first day that we used the name Emerald Aisle Farm for this farm.

We sell seasonal farm products.   Today we have a few eggs.

We are the mother company for asunlitwalk.

asunlitwalk.blogspot.com was created in the dynamic view so that you may quickly view the artwork.  All of the cards presented are available in a 4"x6" photo format.    The entire collection may be purchased on an SD card or a thumb drive.   You will find the card and thumb drive sales on ETSY http://www.etsy.com/shop/asunlitwalk.

You may E-mail us at carmendavis6@gmail.com.