Drink in the New Year with Farmers’ Egg White Cocktails
The froth from an egg white cocktail might seem like the result of a perfected technique from a seasoned bartender, but creating frothy silky egg whites to rest atop your delicious cocktails are easy and fun. They’re also safe! Eggs today are inspected throughly from laying to processing, and rarely have issues of contamination. From […]
Stages of A Hen House
What’s in a hen house? Hens, for one. But how can hens live a high-quality life in the hen house, keeping them protected, healthy, and accommodated with easy access to the outdoors? With top-of-the-line equipment and accommodations that give our ladies their best life in and out of the barn. From expansive ventilation systems, to […]
Pasture Raised Eggs, Free Range Eggs; They’re Just Eggs… Or Are They?
Whether pasture raised eggs, free range eggs, an egg is an egg is an egg… Or is it? What might make an egg more than just an egg? For us, it’s farmers. But not just any farmers. It takes farmers who are farming with their hens, environment, and community in mind. That’s farming like the world […]
Farmers Hen House Gives Back More Than Eggs
While our farms produce millions of organic, free-range, and pasture-raised eggs to sell every year, we also realize the incredible need that disenfranchised communities have, particularly for healthy foods like our specialty eggs. As a result, we have committed to giving back to area food banks and charities, like CommUnity, IC Compassion, North Liberty Food […]
Pasture-Raised Eggs: Top 5 Facts
Have you ever wondered about what makes pasture-raised eggs “pasture-raised“? Sometimes labels like “pasture-raised” can seem like a marketing gimmick. The truth is in part, they are. However, be encouraged that in terms of egg labels, there is oversight so that terms like “pasture-raised” are indeed held to a standard definition. We thought we provide […]
Pasture-Raised Eggs vs Free-Range Eggs
Why would we pit two of our best products against each other? We’re not, necessarily. However, in a day and age when transparency is almost a currency, we want to give you an insight into the differences in pasture-raised eggs and free-range eggs that set them a part. Price You’ll notice on the shelf that […]
Double Yolks
When seeing double isn’t such a bad thing… Chances are when you find one double yolk in a carton, there will be more waiting. That’s because we pack our eggs by weight and farm, and if a farm has a younger flock, then the likelihood of producing double yolks is increased because younger hens are […]
Organic Pasture Raised Eggs
With so many labels on specialty eggs, sometimes it can be easy to assume that just because a carton is labeled pasture raised eggs or free range eggs, that it automatically means that the eggs inside are organic. However, that’s often not the case. How can you be sure that the pasture raised and free range […]
Are Eggs Healthy For You?
Throughout the past few decades, the research on whether or not eggs are healthy for you has followed the path of a coin flip. Prior to the research, eggs were considered a staple food both as an ingredient and stand-alone. However, in 1968 when the American Heart Association (AHA) recommended that adults consume no more […]
Top Hen Reads
Like most people, we enjoy our egg puns. It just so happens, as an egg company, we get to have a little more fun with them. One of those ways we get to have fun is by recreating some of our favorite books with a little segment we call our “Top Hen Reads”. Check out […]
