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Heritage Turkey Eggs In A Basket
Collected at Murray’s Farm, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Photo By John Zeus

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April 16, 2013 | Nasty Pants, Old English Red Cap Rooster at Murray’s Farm | Cambridge Ontario, Canada

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Campaign to SAVE NASTY PANTS

Nasty Pants is my favourite rooster at Murray’s Farm. He has personality and character, intelligence and wit. This video may persuade my best friend Murray to save Nasty Pants from the slaughterhouse. Hopefully this celebrity rooster will live out the rest of his life on the farm. The farm would not be the same without him, for me at least.

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Video: John Zeus, taken on a Samsung Galaxy S3 device
Music Source: Little Red Rooster (Live) Big Mama Thornton

…Hens and a Rooster

Black Minorcas in their breeding shelter. Murray’s Farm, Cambridge Ontario. Recorded with my Samsung Galaxy S3 device.

One of my favourite breeds, the Minorca is a breed of chicken originating in Spain. They have red faces, huge red wattles and large red combs. Their earlobes are large and white. They lay large white eggs.

Pastured eggs are the rage of the food world right now, mostly because of flavour. A heritage chicken takes three times as long to mature and start laying eggs regularly as its factory equivalent. What it lacks in speed, it makes up for in taste. A textbook example of slow/real food.

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Photos by John Zeus | Tamworth piglets at play. Photographed at Murray’s Farm in Cambridge On.

Have you seen the little piggies, Crawling in the dirt…THE BEATLES

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. – Martina Navratilova

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. -George Bernard Shaw

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. – Christopher Hitchens

Tamworth Pig
The Tamworth is a breed of domestic pig originating in Kettlebaston, United Kingdom, with input from Irish pigs. Wikipedia

After The Winter Solstice | Southwestern Ontario, Canada

Frozen yet beautiful the wonder of winter grips the land.
I left the sullen mood of the city behind to spend the last days of the year on the farm. After the winter solstice you feel the sun’s life energy slowly returning as the days begin to grow longer.

Neighbouring Barn – Southwestern Ontario

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This building on the property used to be a church built back in the 1800’s.

John Zeus on a farm walkabout.

Murray’s Farm

Nasty Pants – He’s an Old English Red Cap

Brown Swiss – Murray’s Farm

Nasty Pants – He’s an Old English Red Cap

Zhor – Jersey Calf

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Back on the farm the miracle of autumn is spectacular…

The crisp cold air, exploding colours everywhere, the harvesting of our own food, the playfulness of the animals and the smell of the soil underfoot.

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life. – Wendell Berry

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“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” ―  Masanobu Fukuoka

7:00am dark outside, Murray’s Farm, Cambridge, Ontario “Pigs need a feeding, Turkeys need a watering, Eggs need collecting…” 

I prefer to leave the city and spend time on this farm whenever we can. Doing chores from morning to night, experiencing a true heritage farm lifestyle. As I wrote in one of my previous posts “farm life is hard work yet there’s something essential about growing your own food. Getting back into rhythm with the earth and animals that sustain you.”

Why do I love spending time on a farm?  I love to watch and nurture the crops & plants. I love to live in the presence of the animals. I love working outdoors. I love watching the weather. I love the independence that farm life provides.

Support Your Local Farmers…

Food performance surveys show that a majority of food shoppers are willing to pay more for food grown locally on small family farms. Follow that up with consumer buying habits and we will change the tradition of farming in North America.

Don’t Eat Anything Your Grandmother Would Not Recognize As Food!  

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