greens

after 5 plus years of being a loving but very bad chicken farmer, it had been a few years of chicken-free existence until last week when we chicken-sat for some friends. i reverted right back to the chicken owner mindset. everything remotely edible, especially if it is a leaf, gets set aside for the girls to snack on, and all those greens make for happy charges, as well as eggs full of omega-3s. this strawberry plant was not eaten by a chicken, but rather by a beetle. but it reminded me of that enormous segment of ruminants and herbivores, who, unlike us humans, can’t wait to go eat their greens.

beetle eaten wild strawberry leaves in august