I really appreciate where I live. I live next door to two farmers who raise different animals and grow different crops. Both are older farmers now so they don't do huge farms anymore and only produce what they need and a small bit to sell. My husband and I grow a small garden for us and I sell my duck eggs for some extra cash.
Duck Eggs
The fun thing about living near farms and having my ducks and small garden is it opens up the opportunity to share. Last summer one of my neighbors stopped by randomly with a big bag of squash he had grown in his garden. He had more than he could cook so he brought some to me. He gave me so much squash I was able to share some with a friend. It was really nice of my neighbor and he didn't expect anything in return. Later in the season I returned the favor when I had an abundance of of tomatoes. When you work hard to grow your own food you never want to see it go to waste.
Now that I'm raising ducks, duck eggs have become a great way to share my food wealth and offer to my neighbors or regular egg customers when I have too many. A while back my neighbor slaughtered a few hogs he had been raising for meat. He had enough meat to last him until next year. He randomly gave us some fresh pork ribs. It was so nice of him that I gave him three dozen duck eggs just to show him some kindness back.
I have a regular duck egg customer who buys three to four dozen at a time. Last night I met up with him because he wanted three dozen eggs. I needed to get rid of some excess eggs so I gave him an extra fourth dozen for free. The man had 8 dozen quail eggs he'd bought earlier in a cooler (this guy really loves eggs) and he knew I'd never had them before. When he saw I gave him an extra dozen, he turned around and gave me a dozen quail eggs to try. It was really nice of him to offer me some eggs when I gave him extra free eggs.
The quail eggs he gave me. I'm excited to try them but not sure how to tackle eggs so small.
That's one thing I do love about the homesteading community and people who buy from them. It's just an old timey friendly way of life. Neighbors helping neighbors out of kindness and community. In today's society people are so distant and fearful of others. People don't know their neighbors like years ago when people knew everyone in a community. My neighbors and I have separate plots of land but we're not mean about keeping boundaries. I let my one neighbor park his horse trailer on my land because it's
I really like sharing my duck eggs with others. I always have plenty of eggs. It's nice I can sell them for extra cash to pay for their food costs and when I have more than I can sell I can give them to others who might enjoy them.