Spring 2024
Chicken eggs
Eggs, heralds of spring, are delicious, full of protein, and one of the top 10 commodities in Washington state. » More ...
Eggs
Spring 2024
Egg recipes
Eggs are versatile, delicious, and nutritious. Check out some recipes below.
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Grandma’s Latvian bacon piragi
From Sara Stiebrs (x’02)
Here, Sara shares a recipe passed down from her husband’s Latvian grandmother, Zelma Stiebrs, who came to Washington state in 1949. Seventy-five years later, her Latvian piragi remain a family favorite.
For the dough
2 packages yeast
½ cup warm water
3½ to 4 cups flour
3-plus tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cardamom
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup shortening or butter, plus more for greasing bowl and baking sheet
½ cup warm milk
2 eggs (1 for dough, 1 beaten … » More …
Spring 2024
Smashing success
The Egg and I tells the story of life on a chicken farm near Chimacum in the early days of Betty MacDonald’s first marriage. She was a city girl, a fish out of water, trying to make the best of her new reality and responsibilities on the rural and rugged Olympic Peninsula in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
In 1945, she writes: “Then I gathered the eggs. Gathering eggs would be like one continual Easter morning if the hens would just be obliging and get off the nests. Cooperation, however, is not a chickenly characteristic and so at egg-gathering time every nest was … » More …
Spring 2013
Training for good eggs: Winter School at Puyallup
The winter school at Washington State College's Puyallup station trained many farmers on the finer points of raising hens and eggs, including how to build laying and brooding houses.
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Spring 2013
The Essential Egg
More than a century ago one man’s longing to live in the country led to a course in chicken farming offered through Washington State College, laying the groundwork for one of the largest and oldest egg operations in the Pacific Northwest. Along with just a few other large egg companies, the family-run Wilcox Farms is now a pillar in Washington’s 1.9 billion-egg-a-year industry.
In the early 1900s, a Canadian transplant named Judson Wilcox settled in Seattle. He had a home on Queen Anne and a hat shop in Pioneer Square. But city life wasn’t for him. In 1909 he visited a site east of … » More …