My Backyard Foraged Meal

baby chicks last Easter

Last year we bought 7 little chicks and raised them in our guest bathroom (not recommended). Of those seven chicks 2 were females - sorry roosters. 

the tractor coop

We bought a blueprint to build the Garden Ark chicken coop. We decided to make it portable so they wouldn't kill our yard with all the scratching they do looking for bugs. 

year old chickens this Easter

We ended up adopting another female, so we had 3 layers each giving us an egg every 26 hours. (Just FYI, you do not need a rooster for the hens to lay eggs. You only need a rooster to fertilize the eggs to make more chicks.)


So we have had PLENTY of eggs. 

fresh eggs

One of my favorite things to make is an Easy Egg Bake. But the simplest things to make are Hard Boiled Eggs. Talk about fast food you can eat in the car -  just grab & go!

a foraged meal

Egg Salad is another favorite, especially over a bed of freshly picked arugula. So between our chicken's eggs and greens from our urban garden, I made myself a meal.