Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I honestly can’t remember how Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm–from Scratch made it onto my radar; I finished it tonight, however, and it was surprisingly engrossing. Of course, on the one hand I kept thinking that OF COURSE it was incredibly hard, back-breaking work, because FARMING, but on the other hand, I learned some interesting facts, history, and theories about agriculture in our country.

(Also about chickens. Did you know that chickens produce the same amount of shell material for every egg, no matter the size? That explains why smaller eggs from neighbors’ chickens have always seemed to have surprising thick shells. But I digress…)

I can’t promise that I’m going to start shopping differently after reading Lucie Amundsen’s arguments for pasture-raised eggs AND for middle agriculture, but I’m not saying that I won’t, either. I appreciated her grounded approach and her express acceptance of some of the more difficult realities of farming AND life. If you enjoy memoirs, underdog stories, or books about anything agricultural, I’d definitely give this one a try!