The virtues of pastured eggs

For the last 7 years we’ve had diverse flock of laying hens roams around the land here at Full Bloom and offering us a daily colorful reminder of the perks country life: gloriously vibrant orange yolked eggs.  It turns out that the factory farmed eggs I grew up on with the dull yellow yolks aren’t what eggs are supposed to look like.  Check out the comparison between pastured eggs and those laid by factory raised hens:By having access to a diverse grasses, bugs, worms, and various insects pastured hens are able to concentrate an amazing amount of nutrients in their yolks (particularly caroteniods which is what gives the yolk that amazing color and are thought to prevent cancer and degenerative eye diseases).

Full Bloom hens on pasture.

Hens rangin’ in front of the Communal Building on a misty fall morning.

I always get a thrill out of serving up a delicately prepared Full Bloom egg to a visitor and watching their eyes involuntarily bulge in delight, their mouth open ever so slightly in anticipation.  Regardless of the latest nutritional debate about eggs, when one is served to you that came from a hen you can see out the window and prepared lovingly by a cook who knows the value of farm fresh ingredients there’s something undeniably nourishing happening.

Thanks for reading and if you have any questions, curiosities shoot me an email me at: ryan@fullbloomcenter.com.  Till next time……Ryan