The Real Cost of Backyard Eggs
Hens are wonderful to keep, but they lay the most expensive eggs you’ll ever buy.
Tove Danovich
Tove Danovich is a journalist and the author of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them. She writes the weekly newsletter A Little Detour and lives in Portland, Oregon.
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