Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Liz" <liz@allslash.org>]

> In fact, I don't know anyone who would take a grocery store egg over a
> fresh egg, and I have always lived in urban areas where people don't
> see chickens.
And I live in a rural area where a lot of people have chickens, and there 
are still people here who won't eat local eggs. Why? Because they aren't 
"inspected." Or the person would rather be able to buy their eggs any time 
they need them and not have to wait for the co-worker to bring them in, or 
for the weekly farmers market to be open. Or they're not sure they're "real" 
eggs (the most frequent question I hear is "Can you use them like, you know, 
REAL eggs?"). Or they bought some local eggs once, and one of them had a 
tiny spot of blood or manure on it, or a little piece of straw (on the 
outside, I mean) , so they had to throw it out and they don't want to take a 
chance on them again. Or they bought local eggs and the carton had six 
different sizes in it, and they didn't like not having them all the same 
size (yes, someone did give that as an excuse). Or they visited a farm to 
buy eggs and the chickens were running around loose eating things off the 
ground! Every time I think I've heard it all, someone comes up with another 
crazy one.

Liz