7 Ways to Preserve Eggs at Home w/ Lisa Steele

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Many people recommend artificial lighting to keep up egg production during the winter months, but this is hard on hens. Alternatively, I work with the seasons to allow the hens to produce eggs in their natural cycles. As a result, our homestead has high egg production in the spring, with low production in the winter. A critical homesteading skill is to learn which foods are seasonal, and some may be surprised to learn that eggs are seasonal too! For more information, visit melissaknorris.com/310.

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
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0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:25.3	Hey pioneers, welcome to episode number 310.
1:30.0	Today we are talking about how to preserve eggs at home. Now if your
1:39.5	chickens are anything like mine they lay crazy through the spring and actually through most of the summer.
1:46.8	And you are in an egg glut. So you know what this means if you've been there.
1:53.0	It means you have so many eggs.
1:54.8	You're looking for all of the egg recipes.
1:57.0	You're trying to figure out ways to use up all of these eggs.
2:00.8	But if you've had chickens for any amount of time, you also know that once molting happens in the fall,
2:07.2	and we have those shorter cold days, that you go into an egg famine, and this usually happens right around the holidays.
2:16.8	So Thanksgiving and Christmas November, December, especially when we're doing a lot of holiday
2:20.7	baking and a lot of our baking requires eggs and it just about kills me
2:28.4	if I have to purchase eggs from the store it is one of my goals in life to not ever have to purchase eggs
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