It Was Potluck at PCLF...

Hen House Helper Egg-Based Potluck!

by Sharon Gaughan, PCLF Education Program Director

Last Saturday, Anya and I hosted an egg-based potluck for our Hen House Helper (HHH) volunteers!  We had a nice turn-out – and enjoyed some very delicious food!  My personal favorite might have been the caramel flan – but, really, everything was delicious!

We began with a welcome and some introductory information from Anya and myself, then everyone was invited to fill their plates!  While we ate, we went around the room so that each family had the opportunity to introduce and share some info about themselves and their experience as a Hen House Helper at Prairie Crossing. 

After eating and doing a quick, initial clean-up, we went out into the cold to visit our chicken flock.  The kids (and some of the adults, too!) spread some fresh straw for the chickens in the still snow-covered chicken yard, then offered them handfuls of scratch to eat. 

While Anya took photos of some of the kids holding the chickens, I went into the Egg Wash Station to mix up some “chicken gruel” – and the chickens amused us all with their gruel-eating antics.

We sent each family home with a dozen eggs from our hens – a sincere thank you from us (and from our hens) for the dedicated work our HHH’s do each and every week!

It was a very pleasant Saturday afternoon, shared with like-minded chicken enthusiasts!  We hope to host additional potlucks and/or other HHH events, to help keep us connected with each other and with our chicken flock.

If you think that you might be interested in becoming a Hen House Helper for the Prairie Crossing Learning Farm in the future, please contact Anya O’Halloran,
Hen House Helper Coordinator at aohalloran@prairiecrossing.com.