Fresh from the Farm

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How it Works

We are a local farm delivering to the Lynchburg, Concord and Appomattox, Virginia areas. 

We are not a CSA. No memberships and no minimum orders. Just order what you like and pay as you go!

Our website is regularly updated to reflect in-season items and availability. Simply make your selection on the form. We will email confirmation of your order, provide a total, and arrange a drop off location and time that works for you. Upon delivery, you pay using cash or credit card.

We are a business, so we charge Virginia sales tax to Virginia customers.

Sorry, but we do not ship fresh produce or hay.  We do ship honey, canned goods, yarn and fiber products.

Peeling Farm Fresh Eggs

boiled eggs

Having a hard time peeling your farm fresh eggs? You’re not alone. The issue is that they are FRESH. Store bought eggs are mostly…. old. As eggs age, the membrane starts to loosen from the shell. As an egg ages it gets lighter by evaporation of water through the porous shell, causing the growth of the air space. Hence the old water test for freshness, a fresh egg sinks and an old egg floats.  So you have three options to hard boil your egg: 1. Buy old eggs from the store.   2. Buy fresh eggs and leave them in your refrigerator for three weeks, or 3. Take steps to make your egg separate easily from the shell.

There are countless ways described on the internet to peel a farm-fresh egg. I’ve tried most of them. Everything from poking tiny holes with a tack at the bottom of the egg, but not too deep as to puncture the membrane (very, very, hard to do), to adding baking soda to the water (that one didn’t work at all), to cracking the shell all over right after boiling (this just made the shell stick in smaller pieces). Some people swear by these methods – but they didn’t work for me.

A simple way that works is to boil the eggs for 13 – 15 minutes, drain the water and place ice over them for 10 minutes (or until all the ice melts).   Peel immediately in cool running water to rinse the egg shells away as you peel. Start by cracking the egg at the big end as the air usually pockets there.

The second most frequently asked question I get about boiled eggs is the yolk color. Yolk color in eggs will vary greatly based on what the chicken has been eating. Right after we give the hens beets, for instance, we see dark orange to sometimes red in the eggs. Since this tends to freak people out, we limit the chicken’s beet consumption. Sometimes, however, the yolk will be perfectly normal if you crack them, but will have a greenish-grey film after it has been boiled. This is caused by a chemical reaction in the egg. This film forms when the temperature of the yolk exceeds 158° F. This discoloration is not harmful. Sulfur from amino acids in the egg white is reacting with iron from the yolk in the heat causing a film to form on the yolk's surface.

Don’t give up on your farm fresh eggs. You really can have delicious eggs, served boiled.

Enjoy!