Here’s a new way to buy your free-range, pasture-raised, organic, hormone and antibiotic free, locally grown eggs.
Pay now for your hens and get your eggs later. It’s good for your family because you’ll know exactly how your hens will be raised and good for the farmer because it helps defray the up-front expense of developing and maintaining a healthy flock.
Grow For Me is going into the egg business. I’ve been to her place and seen her happy animals so the eggs should be great.
Briefly, here’s how it will work:
The consumer (you) will contract with Grow for Me to pay $25 before August 15th. With that money she’ll buy three hens for your family. If you want more eggs you can contract for more hens for an additional $15 apiece. The fee covers initial purchase, transportation, organic chick scratch, and replacement for chicks that don’t make it to laying-hen age. Wendy won’t be using antibiotics on the chicks so there could be a naturally occurring loss but the surviving chickens will be healthier.
The hens should reach laying age in late May of 2010. At that time you’ll pay $3.25 doz. or $4.65 for 18. This price is 75 cents less than we pay for our locally grown eggs so it accounts for the up front cost of the contract.
If you are interested in eggs for your restaurant she has a program for you too. Prepay $150 by August 30th for a maximum of 10 dozen eggs per week.
Contact Grow for Me at modernpen@mac.com for more details.
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