The most delightful things arrived in the store on Thursday.
Rainbow eggs! From Claire Smith's rare and heritage hens, these eggs range from a delicate shade of blue to almost mahogany. They are almost too beautiful to eat, but they have rich yellow yolks and are full of all the nutrition of quality eggs. Claire also grows lavender, and sachets and bouquets are gracing our front foyer.
A new check-out counter arrived too, made from the roof boards of the Harrison Park Pavilion, salvaged and re-built for us by Curtis Buckler. His wife is Laura, who creates the lemon ginger marmalade that Hazel Lyder of the Downtown Bookstore recently called "the best marmalade I've ever eaten!"
Some beautiful pork chops and sausages from Gord and Nancy Brown in Chatsworth are now available in the store, and Robert Emerson has added beef striploins and filets as well as family size packages of ground beef.
For those who want to continue to enjoy poultry that has access to the outdoors, may I recommend Grant Robertson's column about a government decision against a Grey county farmer, the only full-scale organic turkey producer in Ontario. Consumers have power to affect these actions.