Locally Grown - Availability for March , 2015

Hey Local Food Lovers,

We’re hopping on into spring this week and henceforth, so prepare yourselves for an increase in products slowly but then steadily, and then a full blow onslaught by May. Nearly 300 total products listed this week.

I really want to plug all our incredible EGG GROWERS. I know many of you have come to appreciate the sheer wonder of PASTURED organically fed eggs from hens hanging out in the sunshine eating bugs and wearing sunglasses. Ok, that last one was an exaggeration, but there’s no doubt these chickens are happier and healthier by a factor of 100 compared to store bought eggs. I’ve been in my share of conventional poultry houses and the closest thing I can compare them to is concentration camps. That’s not an exaggeration and I encourage you to visit one if you’d like to put it to the test.

When animals of any kind are either kept in undersized cages (laying hens and conventional pigs are kept this way all day and night their entire lives), or huddled so closely together that they can’t fully extend their wings without hitting their neighbor they release a nearly continuous flood of a stress hormone called corticosterone. This stress hormone is passed on into the egg (it’s called maternal stress…some of you can relate) and then we eat it. I don’t know if its bad for you (this stress hormone), but I do know that birds that have high corticosterone get sick more often including with Campylobacter and Salmonella.

If this is making conventional food sound unappetizing it should.

That’s why were encouraging ALL our customers to consider buying an EXTRA dozen eggs this week and GIVE the SECOND DOZEN to a close friend that you care about and would like to see get the enhanced nutrition of eggs from chickens that don’t have stress or disease, and have higher omega 3s in their eggs yolks because Omega 3’s come from the chloroplast of leaves and these birds eat a lot of grass.

It’s fun to share the knowledge behind the food here at Locally Grown. It takes extra time for us all to understand our environments well enough to make better informed decisions, but doesn’t it feel good to know that your supporting the kind of farms that make us healthier, the environment healthier and our communities healthier. It also feels good to show appreciation simply through opening our wallets each week, rewarding those things we want to see more of. And by doing so you are depriving your dollars to the things you think we need less of. It’s an act of sustainability, community and health planning all at the same time.

So no kidding, we hope you’ll buy some extra eggs this week (or anything else that looks good to you). Do a little google research and tell your own version of what makes these eggs special to someone you know. I’ve got the person I’m going to do this for picked out right now and I’m about to hit ORDER!

We hope you enjoy this coming week’s opportunities to

EAT WELL!

Chuck, Justin, Teri and Andrew

PS – if you do cook some eggs this week please send us a photo. I made a pretty good open face egg sandwich this morning I should have shot. And get ready to see a short video real soon on one of our egg producers. They will also be featured on this years FARM TOUR in June.