When there are too many eggs, the surplus flows to the dogs, the cat and neighbors.
We tend to have a surplus of peaches! Well, fruit in general. We eat our bellies full fresh fruit, make jam, stuff the freezer with pie-ready fruit and again, gift the overflow to the neighbours. This is orchard-land, so the neigbours tend to have an abundance of fruit at the same time, but we're the only ones with peaches.
Hmmm...what else... Surplus of rain? Rain barrels and two ponds. Because in the summer, there's too little water from the skies. Mulching, and planting tight in the veggie garden helps a lot.
Surplus of wood. The renovation spills out wood as well. The good bits get recycled back to the house, but the 'spent' wood goes to the woodshed and warms us with the help of the rocket mass heater.
There's also wood coming from the garden, the orchard. Twigs go to twig heaps, that also receive bundles of ripped-out weeds, and a scattering of flower seeds every now and then. The coming season will show if the flower seed scatterings are working, I'm trying it the first time.
Oh and we actually had a surplus of chicken at one point. The fox had taken chicken from the neighbours, so our surplus filled their gap.
