Eggs for Sale!

Now offering chicken eggs for sale!   

Our chickens free range in our 9,000 sq ft garden, allowing them to live as chickens should.  During most of the year, they forage for bugs like grasshoppers, june bugs and grubs.  They also eat whatever plants look delicious in the garden like grass, mallow, weeds, and whatever garden veggies I toss their way (tomatoes are their favorite!).

In the cooler months when there aren't many bugs or greens to eat,  I supplement both!  I grow fodder for them as well as raise mealworms, so they get to be happy chickens all year.

Our hens lay light brown eggs that come in different shades, and sometimes have a few 'freckles' on them. Shell color is strictly a matter of pigmentation, there is no nutritional difference between white eggs, brown eggs, blue eggs etc.  The only thing that makes an egg healthier is by the way chickens are raised and what they get to eat.

If you are trying free-range eggs for the first time, there are a few things to know that make them different than store bought eggs:

• The yolks will be much brighter/vivid in color than store bought eggs.  This is due to their free ranging diet of eating bugs, plants, and fresh veggies. Commercial eggs in the grocery stores are from chickens kept in horrid conditions, being fed only grain.
• They are much fresher than store-bought eggs.  This means they are not ideal for making hard boiled eggs unless you let them sit in the fridge for a week or two, or unless you know a few tricks.  Store bought eggs are SEVERAL days old, which means they have more air inside the shell than freshly laid eggs.  Air is what is needed to cleanly peel a shell after hard-boiling.  Don't worry, there are still lots of tricks out there for us to cleanly peel a fresh egg after it's been boiled.  My trick involves using a thumb tack to poke a small hole in the shell, introducing more air before I boil it.  Others steam their eggs.

I will have 2 dozen eggs per week for sale, though their laying changes with the seasons so it may be more or less depending on the month.  One dozen eggs are $3.50.  If you use your own egg cartons or return mine, they are only $3 a dozen.  Amazon has some great durable plastic egg cartons, or you can return your egg cartons each time I come to bring more eggs.  

Contact me for some delicious eggs!