Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm--From Scratch (Audiobook)

from streamsong

Author Lucie B Amundson had a satisfying life in the city of Minneapolis. She had a job as a Reader's Digest editor, a dream home she considered her forever home, kids and loving husband. But then her husband Jason, decided he wanted to do something different - to move North to the Duluth area an...

from Sovranty

This book chronicles the ever- and still-developing world of a family (and subsequent friends) plunged into a world of commercial egg production without any prior experience or living knowledge. A production larger than the local farmer's market but smaller than BigAg, the Amundsen family struggl...

from booklovercook

This book is excellent! I expected to read the first couple chapters and then get bored when I realized I'm not actually interested in starting a chicken farm. Instead I devoured it in less than 10 days, which is super fast for me and nonfiction. The writing is entertaining and the author somehow...

from Auj

If you got this book hoping to read about how to get yhourself laid locally, you had better read the subtitle. I thought the inuendos in the title and throughout the book were very clever, but I was also interested in reading about how someone got into the chicken/egg business. Lucie Amundsen has...

from readaholic12

Locally Laid is a funny, well-written and informative look at a family's leap into mid-sized poultry farming, and their remarkable journey into successful local egg producers. I admire the hard work and bravery of this family, and really enjoyed the narrative of their story. I learned a lot about...