Lothar Hatchee, FL – 24 bright green baby parrots twittering and shaking their heads as soon as anyone approaches the large cage that has been their home since hatching in March. The native Central Americans were caught by a smuggler at Miami International Airport and are being raised by the Rare Species Conservation Foundation – a round-the-clock job that includes hand-feeding five times a day in a room filled with large cages . The parrots,…
"Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs"Tag: Eggs
This isn’t your typical story about pre-Easter eggs. This is the story of a young farmer, Doug Groenendijk, who had the unique idea of getting his produce to consumers through an egg vending machine that wouldn’t create the same problems as regular roadside stands . However, the part about cracking has nothing to do with the state the eggs were in when they came out of the vending machine — they’re all one piece. Anyone…
"B.C. farmer comes out of his shell to sell vending machine eggs"
In the run-up to Easter, a Nanaimo woman is nostalgic for Ukrainian egg art. Jeanne Rudy, a Nanaimo resident of Ukrainian descent, said the decorative Easter eggs, pysanky, come from the Ukrainian word pysaty (to write) and date back to antiquity. On Saturday, April 1, she made and sold eggs at the Ukrainian Easter Bazaar at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Nanaimo. “They’ve been around since pagan times because the egg is…
"In pursuit of perfect egg: one Island woman’s guide to making Ukrainian Easter eggs"