As a perpetual city dweller, my eggs generally come from a styrofoam crate that will take a million years to break down. The eggs are perfectly white, uniform in size and predictably tasty. I had seen farm fresh eggs sold at farmer’s markets but never understood the appeal. My grocery store eggs were just fine.

Then I tried farm fresh eggs. While visiting my boyfriend’s family in Michigan, I made a trip to their family farm. We drove fifteen minutes down the road, visited the chickens, cows, horses and corn fields and came home with breakfast. Talk about eating locally!  These eggs were incredible and I’m already contemplating ways to install a chicken coop on my rooftop back home in New York.

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