Easter shows up on the calendar while grocery stores still sell Valentine's candy and garden centers display seed packets for plants that won't survive outside for weeks. But walk to your henhouse at dawn and something else is happening: eggs appearing more frequently as light increases, soil losing its frozen hardness, wild greens pushing up before you've planted anything. This is when farming people have always recognized spring—not with manufactured decorations, but through the animals and plants responding to longer days.
This book presents Easter through the lens of agricultural rhythms—gathering eggs that accumulate because hens lay with the light, cooking with the overlap of stored winter food and emerging spring growth, decorating with dyes from your kitchen and hedgerow. You'll learn to keep laying hens, color eggs with plants and scraps, read soil readiness, start seeds, and make simple cheese. You'll engage spring traditions with purpose rather than performance.
Egg & Earth treats Easter as a working season rather than a single morning—connecting celebration to actual spring labor. The eggs multiplying in your nesting boxes teach you what lengthening daylight means. The seedlings you nurture indoors eventually move to warming ground, anchoring your holiday in dirt and growth.
