Once in a hundred lifetimes

Last weekend while frying up a couple of eggs for his noodles our eldest son was surprised to crack open not a double-yoker, not a triple-yoker but a quadruple-yoker!

We all thought this was a pretty special thing, however, at the time none of us had an inkling that what had just happened in our frypan was an astronomically unlikely event.

To put it in perspective a double-yoker happens in about one in 1000 eggs.  A little less likely are your chances of finding a pearl in an oyster – the odds are one in 12,000.

Even quite improbable events such as being struck by lightening (one in 114,195) or killed by a vending machine (one in 112 million) are dwarfed by the chances of coming across a quadruple-yolk egg.

According to the British Egg Information Service the chances of an egg with four yolks appearing on top your ramen are a hornswoggling one in 11 billion!

When I called James from Gippsland Free Range Eggs he unsurprisingly had never come across a quadruple-yoker before. 

Quietly proud, James reckoned the ultra-rare egg would have come from one of his young point-of-lay pullets, who he explained often produced double-yokers.

Sharing with James that the quadruple yoker was attracting a lot of attention on social media he didn’t seem surprised.

He confided that people got pretty excited about double yokers and at his farmers market stall they put aside suspected doubles for people who liked to give them as gifts.

James, with partner Julie, run free range chooks on their Willow Grove farm near Trafalgar with the help of six Italian maremma chicken guarding dogs.

You can find their eggs here or meet them at Abbotsford Farmers Market every Saturday and every second and fourth Sunday at Flemington Farmers Market.

Reply & recycle

For the last few weeks we’ve been asking people to handwrite their thoughts & feeling on the cardboard inserts we put in our boxes.  To our great joy responses have started arriving at the Fair Food warehouse, where they’re being read and compiled into action lists before being sent out with new deliveries. 

If you’ve got something you’d like to share about Fair Food – get the texta out and write to us old school style.  Drawings also gratefully accepted.

Thoughts & feelings weren’t the only thing arriving at the warehouse last week – there were also more packets of rubber bands for bunching herbs and greens. Thanks to whoever sent them in – we can’t say enough how much we love reusing packaging.

Big Wednesday … and Thursday

This week because of the extra public holiday we’re going to be closed on Friday and Saturday,

So if you usually get your order on the weekend or if you’re going away for the school holidays, get your delivery early on Wednesday or Thursday.

The extra public holiday this week is putting farmers, makers and bakers under a lot of pressure – lots of shops and cafes will be closed and won’t put in their usual orders.

The week is going to be difficult for everyone but it doesn’t have to be a total loss.

We can get behind our 175 farmers and makers, like Eve from Farmraiser above, by  getting a delivery on Wednesday or Thursday.

Have a great week,

Chris