Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Manufactured colouring additives used in poultrry feed to fool consumers.

Sydney6s Daily Telegraph ran a story alerting consumers to t he widespread use of colouring additives in chook food to enhgance the colour of egg yolks in eggs.http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegraph.com.au%2Fnews%2Fnsw%2Fthe-yolks-on-us-aussie-eggs-not-all-theyre-cracked-up-to-be%2Fnews-story%2Fcb038b4467c8aa07fa8d130e8dcb97d3&h=8AQET8iiT&enc=AZN--fbuHvPoi4rUrXLy2RMRgQb6XcVpyA_3sGdmyriIbT9b7Pjwc4gw86xUCNfpVw0fEGDplzfSR5v6OSRlxVeXe6rSYIUUJiuvReadeXpz1bEnL8uOb6bgDq7PjxDQ2LFbZCIw908lZ5uTvTvcT1OnIzixxGucpF9zar4-xOZZpWtlsjNw4wX3RfjTcmO06n7xHi7DW7pI82FmblZpprUh&s=1 We have been concerned about this for years as many people have allergic reactions to some of the colouring agents

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Farm gate sales booming

Like many farm businesses, our sales direct to the public have become increasingly important in recent years. More than 50% of our total sales are direct to customers - either at the Farmers' markets we attend or at the farm gate. We have a large yellow cool box just inside our front gate at 245 Stanley Road, Grantville. We keep it stocked with various sizes of eggs in dozen packs,but we ae happy to include special orders for particular sizes (or trays of eggs if required. Just emailo us or ring first.