fresh eggs

[booxntea.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know of a farmer's market selling eggs in the area through a farmer's market or just privately? I am particularly partial to blue, green or pink ones.

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[ron_newman]

Davis Square farmer's market is Wednesday afternoon, and Union Square is Saturday morning, but I don't recall if either one has eggs.

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

The Kendall Sq. Farmer's market is on Thursdays from 11-2:30 on the corner of 2nd and Athenaeum. It has fresh eggs, but not ones in pretty colors.

[wallacestreet.livejournal.com]

Dave's Fresh Pasta has recently started selling eggs from Chip-In Farms in Bedford. They're very yummy and about $3.50/dz. Not blue, green, or pink, though.

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about chicken eggs? Undyed, I don't think they come in anything other than white and brown.

[ron_newman]

I'd never heard of it either, but: Araucana

[booxntea.livejournal.com]

I prefer the colors for aesthetic reasons as well as the fact that the breed of hen that lays them won't lay unless truly free range. Most eggs labeled free range are still factory farmed.

Here is a photo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaiadancer/452008216/) of some eggs from the hens I once kept.

:)

[teko.livejournal.com]

Aracuña chicken eggs (aka "easter egg chickens") are naturally green & blue, and are really, really delicious eggs. They're definitely worth seeking out.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

You just wanted an excuse to use that icon.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

The Federation of Mass. Farmers' Markets website let's you search by product:

http://www.massfarmersmarkets.org/t-search.aspx

Also, you may want to check out the Mass. Dept. of Agriculture's site:

http://www.mass.gov/agr/massgrown/

D'oh!

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that Greengrocer's apostrophe.

*hangs head in shame*

[jenaflynn.livejournal.com]

They have pink eggs?
What sort of mad world do we live in?

[jadelennox]

arlington center has fresh eggs on wednesdays.

[jadelennox]

(specifically, the Arlington Center farmer's market, straight up the 87 bus from Davis Square or a 40-minute walk up Broadway, has the Smith family farm cheese people who sell gouda, cheddar, organic eggs from country hen, and I'm not sure where their non-organic eggs come from. But it's their neighbors, I know, like the country hen people who are in Hubbardston.)

I'd be shocked if Davis Square Farmer's market doesn't have eggs as well. Arlington Center, for the most part, has a subset of the farm who show up in Davis.

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

I would agree with the general assertion that the Arlington Center Farmers' Market is a subset of the Davis Square one, but I know there are exceptions (the Muenster cheese stand comes to mind), and I've never seen eggs on sale in Davis.

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Dang! Well, that's blueish-tinted egg on my face.

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Not really, I use it constantly over at urbpan. It was wonderfully apropos, though, wasn't it?

Re: D'oh!

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Isn't it their market?

Re: D'oh!

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

It was the "lets" I mangled. *is still wincing*

[ron_newman]

80 bus from Ball Square and Powderhouse also goes to Arlington Center.

If you're on the Cambridge side of Davis, the best way to get to Arlington is the #77 bus on Mass. Ave., which is much more frequent than the 80 or 87.

[obie119.livejournal.com]

Central Square (Mondays) has eggs brought in from Belchertown, but they sell out fairly early so I haven't seen them.
Chip-in Farm in Bedford is selling in more and more local groceries recently.

The BEST place, though, is to go to Drumlin Farm, an Audubon Sanctuary in Lincoln (a nice bike ride or 1/3 miles from the Commuter Rail) and they have eggs at the place where you pay the entrance fee. They keep them in a little mini-fridge under their computer. Don't remember the price, but they have all the fun shapes and colors. And, you can see the chickens yourself. They are about as happy as a chicken could get.

(they also have a chest freezer full of cuts of lamb and pork - also easily viewed having fun on the farm) You may want to call them up to make sure they have eggs.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Ameraucauna (http://www.ameraucana.org/), or mixed Ameracauna/other breed chickens (aka "Easter Egg Chickens") are more likely to be used this way than pure-bred Auraucana chickens, which are a much rarer breed than the Ameraucana and Easter Egg chickens. /chicken geek

*sigh* I miss having chickens. My family always had a handful of Ameraucana/mixed breed hens running around. Some of the mixed-breed hens laid eggs that were a really lovely olive green :) But the others did produce eggs with pale blue/green shells.

[syntheticnature.livejournal.com]

Subset? No way! Arlington has Dick's Market Garden, Grateful Farms, Danish Pastry House, and Chestnut Farms as well as the cheese place. Maybe others, that's just off the top of my head.

Back on topic: Eggs from The Country en in Hubbardston are always available at Pemberton Farms. And Butter Brook Farms sells eggs at the Lexington and Belmont farmers markets.

Pete and Jen's Backyard Birds in Concord ( http://peteandjensbackyardbirds.com ) has blue eggs: "A carton of eggs contains a mixture of egg sizes and colors, including white, blue, light brown, dark chocolate brown, and white eggs. " Doesn't look terribly T-accessible, though - 3.5 miles from the West Concord train station.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

Codman Farm has green and pink eggs, although it mostly has brown.

http://www.codmanfarm.org/page/page/4358747.htm

It's a great little farm. It's self-serve. You take the eggs out of the fridge, and put the money in a wooden box. They also have meat from animals raised using organic practices (although not technically organic).

It's between Walden Pond and Drumlin Farm.
Take Rt. 2 to 126, like you are going to Walden Pond. Go past Walden Pond and turn left at the sign for Lincoln Center. Codman farm in on your left just after you make the turn.

[booxntea.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll check Davis Farmers Market, Dave's and Pemberton. I was hoping someone would offer to sell me some from a hen they knew, unwashed eggs are the best... they don't need to be refrigerated. They are hard to come by because poop legally needs to be washed off before the egg is sold. It does away with bloom (http://www.georgiaeggs.org/pages/bloom.html).

Cracking open a room temperature, freshly washed egg is really heaven but I'll enjoy a humanely raised, pre-washed, chilled egg. When in Rome...

[nomacmac.livejournal.com]

I've never seen them at Davis, and I go every week. Unless someone has them and they sell out early every week, I'm pretty sure no one carries them.