02/05/2025
🥚 Our eggs are $7/doz.
Sometimes this price would turn folks away from buying from us. I never backed down or reduced the price even when I heard people walk away whispering under their breath as they went, “that’s ridiculous. I can get eggs way cheaper than that”.
Our price is $7/doz. Not because we’re price gauging during avian flu season. Not to compete with retail stores and the commercial industry. They’re $7/doz because that’s what they’re worth. The price equates to quality and the time and effort our farm puts into caring for the chickens that lay these eggs every day of the year.
As the price of eggs continues to climb in stores over the next few weeks and you start looking for “cheaper” alternatives than your Egg-Lands Best or Vital Farms “Pasture Raised” store options, and you stumble upon a local family farm asking $7/doz for their hand gathered, hand washed and hand packed eggs, don’t ask for a discount or challenge why their price is such. Simply thank them, take the eggs home and be amazed at what you’ve missed out on all those years thinking you could get cheaper eggs elsewhere.
Those “cheaper eggs” will never taste as good, or have as thick shells, or have as bright orange yolks as those that we sell.
I can only hope that as the commercial industry recovers and egg prices drop to a more typical price range that you won’t abandoned those farmers producing the higher-end product that also didn’t take the industry-standard-opportunity to price gauge during a disease outbreak.
🐓 🥚 🧺 👩🌾 Farmers need your support to survive, and not just when it’s convenient for you.