Returning to 2012, I’d likely find us around the kitchen table. My husband, Jason, would be animated and engaged as he tried to jam together the rough-edged pieces for our pasture-raised egg farm, Locally Laid. Though less excited, I’d be equally animated: a dangling raw nerve looking over his shoulder. That’s because we weren’t putting together […]
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Paperbacks & Postcards
I’ve known that the Locally Laid book was dropping in paperback on Tuesday, February 28th for a while, but even so — it’s rather snuck up on me. It was months ago that my lovely peeps at Penguin Random House were going back and forth on covers. And despite all you’ve heard about heartless big publishing […]
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Why Dec 31 is one of our favorite days…
On the last day of the year, Farmer Jason and our farmer/accountant Jeremy count up all the egg deliveries we did over the past 12 months. Then we plant a tree for each one. It’s a tip of the beak (so to speak) to our carbon footprint, even as we strive to […]
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Cocktail Party Primer — All Poultry Edition
It’s happening. Right now, folks are dusting the cheese trays and reaching into the high cupboard for the cocktail shakers in preparation of holiday parties — but are you ready with winsome conversational small talk? No worries, Locally Laid has you covered with interesting poultry chitchat which will surely be the social lubricant of any […]
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LoLa goes to…Little Rock?
Most days my email box is filled with mundane things like the weeks’ egg washing schedule and updates from my writing/marketing clients. And other days, you open a message inviting you to be a William J. Clinton Distinguished Guest Lecturer at his School of Public Service in Little Rock to talk agricultural economics at the Clinton Presidential […]
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Booksellers, Bat Sh*t & Scary Driveways
Here’s an excerpt of the short acceptance speech for the 2016 Midwest Choice Awards held recently in Minneapolis… Now I’ve been thinking about bookstores and midsize farms and they have some things in common. For one, I’m thinking when you tell someone that you’re buying a bookstore, you likely get the same reaction we […]
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