Pastured chickens like ours can get up to 20% of their diet from healthy pasture, depending on weather, season, and what’s growing in the field.

The remainder comes from the certified organic layer feed we provide, which gives them the balanced nutrition they need for strong health and steady laying.

Their pasture diet adds natural variety: fresh grasses, greens, bugs, seeds, and whatever they find while foraging. Combined with organic feed, grit for digestion, and oyster shell for calcium, our hens are given a well-rounded diet that supports both their wellbeing and the quality of the eggs they lay.

Yes — they’re more than free range.

In Canada, “free range” generally means hens have access to the outdoors when weather permits. Many free-range systems still include indoor barn housing.

Our hens spend the growing season living outdoors on pasture. They have fresh air, sunshine, lots of room to roam, and space to scratch, dust bathe, forage, and express their natural behaviours.

In the colder months, they move indoors for warmth and protection, but still have access to the outdoors.

Egg colour and size can vary naturally from hen to hen. All of our eggs fall within the brown egg family, but you may still notice slight differences in shade, from lighter tan to deeper brown. This is completely normal and can be influenced by the individual hen, her age, and where she is in her laying cycle.

This is one of the beautiful signatures of pasture-raised eggs. Yolk colour naturally changes with what our hens are eating and foraging throughout the season.

Fresh pasture, bugs, greens, and seasonal plants can all influence the colour of the yolk. In the spring, dandelions and fresh greens often help create those especially bright orange yolks. That deeper colour can reflect the natural carotenoids found in the hens varied diet — beneficial plant pigments that come from fresh forage.

We use special nesting boxes where the egg rolls away from the hen once laid. This keeps them clean and protected by their natural bloom. Because our hens live on pasture, some eggs naturally need a little extra cleaning. When that happens, we wash them with care before packing and stocking them for sale.

Keep your eggs refrigerated once you bring them home.

Small brown spots inside an egg are usually called “meat spots” or pigment spots. They can happen naturally during the egg-forming process and are more common in brown eggs.

Because brown eggs get their shell colour from pigment added near the end of laying, small bits of that pigment can sometimes show up inside the egg too.

While they may look a little surprising, there is nothing wrong with the egg. It is not spoiled, not fertilized, and still safe to eat.

Yes! We would love for you to bring back your clean cartons. Our hens can lay up to almost 100 eggs a day, so we go through a lot of them!

Returning your cartons helps us reuse and reduce waste. Tell your neighbours to drop theirs off too!

For the best quality, we recommend enjoying your eggs within 3–5 weeks when kept refrigerated. Because our eggs are collected and stocked regularly, they are often much fresher than eggs that have gone through a longer store supply chain.

To keep them fresh, store eggs in their carton in the refrigerator, ideally on a shelf rather than in the fridge door where temperatures fluctuate more. Health Canada recommends keeping eggs refrigerated and not leaving them out for more than 2 hours.  

Farm note: Fresh eggs naturally lose moisture over time, so older eggs may have a larger air pocket and slightly thinner whites. That does not always mean they are bad, but if an egg smells off, looks unusual when cracked, or has a cracked/dirty shell, it’s best to discard it.