Jason Amundsen and his family run Locally Laid Egg Company. The family lives in Duluth, but every day Amundsen heads out to their one-of-a-kind farm in Wrenshall to take care of their 2,400 hens. Last year, the Amundsen’s noticed the nearest commercial eggs at their local cooperative were from 200 miles away. It gave Amundsen […]
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Chicks – Starting from Scratch
How raising birds from babies will make all the difference for our little farm.
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Tale of Two Conferences
Locally Laid attended conferences this spring that couldn’t have been more different. Check out some of our photos.
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Tale of Two Conferences
I didn’t want to go to Atlanta. The International Poultry Conference held there is a Big Ag event, and I didn’t see much gain for our little family-owned farm. We have nearly 3,000 hens that forage on pasture. Many of those who were at the Atlanta conference in late January count their chickens by the […]
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Happy 1st Birthday, Lola!
Lola’s a year old! Of course, it wasn’t without some drama. When a suburban-raised 40-year-old, best built for the rigors of a cubical habitat, decides that the answer to his second layoff in as many years is to open a commercial-scale, pasture-raised egg venture, well – that’s a performance in the making. And we did […]
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