Farm Fresh Eggs

When was the last time you bought a carton of eggs that looked like this?

And no, it's not for Easter. These eggs are all natural - no dyes involved. We buy all of our eggs from our neighbor Pat who has a few hundred hens of various varieties. She makes a point to populate each carton with a mixture of colors and sizes, although we suspect that this particular carton - with its perfect chromatic organization - was a result of her daughter Abby's presence.

If you haven't had fresh-from-the-farm eggs recently, you'll be amazed at how different they are from what you buy in the store. The yolks in particular stand up so high and are bright orange.

For the past few years I have become "the egg man" at the office, as the local distributor of farm eggs when Pat's hens are at their highest production levels. It supports a local farmer and it's really fun to see and hear the reactions from someone after they experience a real egg for the first time!

- Mike, Corinne, and Anders Rocket