People ask us about our eggs pretty often. Usually the first question is about price. The second question, once they’ve cracked one open and seen the yolk, is: what do you feed them?
It’s a good question. The short answer is: a lot of things, and that’s exactly the point.
Our hens eat non-GMO layer feed as a base. But the real difference — the thing that changes the color of the yolk and the richness of the flavor — is the pasture. Our chickens spend the bulk of their day outside on real grass, in a space we rotate regularly so they always have fresh ground to work. They eat bugs. They eat grubs. They eat clover and grass and whatever seeds they can scratch up. They eat the way chickens were designed to eat, not the way a factory farm needs them to eat.
A hen that spends her days outside on pasture produces a different egg than one that never sees sunlight. The science is clear on this — more omega-3s, more vitamin D, more beta-carotene. That’s not marketing. That’s just biology.
In the winter, when the grass goes dormant, we supplement with fermented feed, black soldier fly larvae, and whatever vegetable scraps come out of the kitchen. Squash seeds. Kale stems. Apple cores. Nothing goes to waste.
We also don’t use antibiotics prophylactically. If a bird is sick, we deal with it. But we’re not medicating a healthy flock because it’s convenient. Healthy birds on good pasture don’t need it.
None of this is complicated. It’s just intentional. And you can taste the difference in every yolk.