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Grocery Store Eggs Vs. Public Market Eggs

Most of us have probably heard about the differences between the eggs you buy at a major grocery store and those bought from a small, local farmer, but if you have yet to see the two compared side-by-side, Carl Huber has you covered. He pits eggs from Wegmans against eggs from his local public market in hard boiled and over easy form, and shows how much more yellow the public market yolks are. And even though he says his taste buds are underdeveloped, he found that, "The grocery store brand seemed watered down, flimsy and pale. The robust taste of the public market eggs was immediately noticeable." Although they cost a little more than supermarket eggs, it seems worth...

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18 Comments | Posted by Robyn Lee, March 24, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Tagged: eggs, free-range, The Warehouse

Free-Range Hogs in North Carolina

Photo by Jeremy M. Lange The Independent Weekly on Franklin County's MAE Farm, home to 220 free-range hogs as well as cattle, goats and chicken. MAE Farm's owner and operator, Mike Jones, also works as an extension agent teaching other North Carolina farmers to operate small, low-impact hog farms. "By legal definition, a small-scale hog farmer is one with no more than 250 pigs. North Carolina has about 100 of these farmers, and Jones has helped almost half of them get into business since 2001, when he started working at N.C. A&T." The biggest challenge for these farmers is marketing, as most are naturally more inclined to focus on raising their animals than seek out new sales channels. "Accessing new...

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1 Comment | Posted by Alaina Browne, September 20, 2007 at 5:30 PM
Tagged: free-range, hogs, North Carolina, pork, sustainable farming