Categories: Chicken Keeping, Family Homeplace, Gardening, Photography, Reflections on Farm Life, Travel
My name is Tonya, and I grew up on a 300-acre farm in rural Virginia that has been in my family for over 100 years. After graduating from college, receiving my master’s degree in speech and language pathology, and living and working in a small city for six years, I decided to return to the place of my childhood. Here, in this rural area, on this patch of green, where for four generations my family has farmed, gardened, and lived, I, too wanted to be a part of this continuity. As a fourth generation farmgirl, I have many interests that not only include, but also go beyond the basics of farming, gardening, sheep and chicken-keeping. It is all of this and more that I plan on sharing in this blog.
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What a fun post!!
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Thank you. I enjoyed creating it! 😊
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Loved these!
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Thanks so much, Laura. 🙂
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Love it….every picture!!
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Thank you, Sally! 😊
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I love yellow such a sunny happy color. Great photos
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I agree! Yellow is a very uplifting color. Thanks, Donna. 🙂
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Beautiful pictures Tonya! Just love the sunset ones!!!
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That’s really nice! Thanks, Ritu. I love the sunset ones as well. 😊
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😊
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So much beauty! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Thank you for your kind comment, Ronit. 🙂
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Lovely pics 🙂 thanks for sharing
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Many thanks! 😊
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Such pretty pictures, love those chickens!!
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Thank you very much. I love them, too–so much personality! 🙂
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As you know yellow is my favourite colour. What beautiful pictures, the flowers, the eggs, chicks, everything! Thanks so much for brightening up my rainy Monday morning Tonya 🙂
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Thanks very much, Judy. Yes, I remember; you have a yellow car I believe! Yellow is such a cheerful color. I’m so glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks, again, for your kind comment. You brightened MY day! 🙂 ☀️
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That was a great post, Tonya! Aside from starting it with one of my favorite Coldplay songs, you followed it with beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks, Rob. I absolutely love that song, too! So happy you enjoyed the post. 🙂
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Yellow is my favorite! I have this wish that when I get my own place, I want a sunflower wall 🙂 your photos make me want harder
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A wall covered with sunflowers sounds divine–very cheery! 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
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Still to this day my most
Favorite song of all time. Beautiful pictures of the farm!!
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It’s a fantastic song! I love how the emotion is conveyed in the music and lyrics. Thanks, Mel! 🙂
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So I have a question! On eggs. The eggs that we consume – are they fertilized or unfertilized?? I always used to think that the ones we use for cooking are unfertilized. Can you explain a bit about these eggs? A lovely egg-post will also be most welcome!
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Hey Prajakta! The eggs that we consume aren’t fertilized. Places that raise hens for egg production don’t have roosters in the same area as the egg layers. On a farm, an egg may be fertilized; however, once it’s washed and refrigerated there will be no chick. A fertilized egg has to be kept warm by the mother hen or incubated in order to hatch.
I’ll start thinking about an egg-post! 🙂
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This was good to know 🙂 I am bombarded with questions when I tell people that I am a vegetarian but eat eggs since no one “died”. Assuring!
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