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French Broad Farm Persians🐈, Petals🌸, Poultry🐓and Poms🐶 in the Smoky Mountain foothills of Tennessee.

A gorgeous bloomy olive egg is about to become breakfast but I wanted to take a minute to admire the silvery frost over ...
10/09/2026

A gorgeous bloomy olive egg is about to become breakfast but I wanted to take a minute to admire the silvery frost over the mossy green.

I’ve always loved beautiful eggs. It’s been a minute since I’ve kept colored egg layers. When we sold my house a couple of years ago I didn’t have a proper set up situated to take my chickens with me so my remaining girls went to a good friend of mine.

Life has been so busy! A decade of showing Lionhead rabbits came to a halt due to some health issues I had to take care of. Now I’m rabbit free and ready for a new project. An easier one. God knows I don’t have the energy these days to keep up with a wooled rabbit breed🙃

Life is bringing me back to chickens. I miss my rainbow eggs😭 So I decided to start a green egg project. All the greens. After all I am a Virgo and green is not only my favorite color but my birthstone as well💚 Bring on the olives, sages, mosses, spearmints, jades, seafoams, etc!

I’ll be on the lookout for hatching eggs/birds to add in the future. I won’t ship eggs in. Been there, done that, don’t have the patience😂 That said, if anyone near East Tennessee (Eastern SC/NC, North GA, West VA, Southern KY) is also working on green eggs hit me up!

10/07/2026

Rip helping Teeter brush her teeth this morning😛

Loving the pullet eggs!🤗 I asked my girlfriend up the road for hatching eggs this past spring. I told her to give me the...
10/07/2026

Loving the pullet eggs!🤗
I asked my girlfriend up the road for hatching eggs this past spring. I told her to give me the greens and blue greens. Those hatched off the Easter Eggers that recently started laying these beauties. They’re all gorgeous but those speckles are just🫶🏼

Just finished up 14 jars of raspberry jam. I usually can my Fall Gold raspberries and end up with a golden color but thi...
08/21/2026

Just finished up 14 jars of raspberry jam. I usually can my Fall Gold raspberries and end up with a golden color but this time I used a handful of Caroline red raspberries from the new plants I put in last year. It turned the jam a pretty peach color. I’ll name it Naughty Caroline😀

08/17/2026

This year was my first attempt at growing hollyhocks from seed. People told me they wouldn't flower until next year but I discovered that wasn't true at all. If you start your seeds early enough in late winter/early spring to give them a head start Alcea might just delight you with it's impressive towering spires. These ballerina pink stunners were started from seed outdoors during the end of February. I also started seeds in trays indoors March 1st. Not all of the plants flowered, just a couple of pinks. Can't wait to see what colors arrive next year as the seeds were a mix. Until then I will enjoy observing the bees while they go about their beesness.
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07/29/2026

Pink hollyhocks are fairytale flowers🌸

Cute bumble bee sleeping in the hollyhocks this morning.
07/13/2026

Cute bumble bee sleeping in the hollyhocks this morning.

Spotted bee balm😍
05/27/2026

Spotted bee balm😍

04/26/2026

It was time for new chickens. My friend Mary Beth had the hatching eggs. My friend Nancy had the incubator. The stars aligned and here they are🤗 Meet the new crew!
We have been soo incredibly busy this spring. I planned to post new reels for spring with seed starting content, the daffodils and tulips, the bluebirds nesting, and the earth waking up from its winter sleep but we have been running non stop to catch up. Tennessee heated up so fast that every waking moment has sent me running full speed. After my last two old hens decided their egg laying days were behind them I realized we needed to take action and plan for some new layers but I did not have time to incubate eggs. That’s where my dependable friend Nancy said “I got you”. Mary Beth had assorted blue and green egg hatching eggs. Nancy filled the rest of her Brinsea with BCM x olive eggers. The result was so adorable I had to make time for a quick reel. After a guessing game between the nieces and nephew of what critter Aunt Becca was bringing home, Aria was the winner of a whopping $5😆

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Kodak, TN
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