Eggs at the Market

Eggs at the Market

“I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.” – James Beard, ‘On Food’ (1974)

We agree with Mr. Beard.  We also know that the Curb Market is the best place to get the eggs you can enjoy purely and simply or glamorously prepared.  Seven vendors bring delicious fresh eggs from chickens living without cages.

In addition to sheer eating pleasure, we now understand eggs are very good for you.  For more about health and eggs, check out these links from NY Times andMother Earth News.

Massey Creek’s hens enjoy chicken tractors on Rockingham County pastures.  Massey Creek provides eggs to Triad restaurants including Lucky 32.  Lucky 32 provides vegetable ends to Massey’s chickens to produce the eggs eaten at Lucky 32.  Neat.  (aisle A/B)

Woody Singletary’s chickens have the run of a large pen when outside their coops where they produce eggs in a variety of colors.  Bet they enjoy occasional vegetable ends from Woody’s greens.(aisle F)

Cornerstone Farm Garlic Farm’sAuracana hens produce lovely blue eggs while their Golden Comets produce lovely brown eggs.  Natalie Foster added chickens to her product line two years ago.  (aisle B/C)

Goat Lady Dairy’s hens are used to being on display for Dairy visitors. They aerate decomposing organic matter before returning to their coop each night. (aisle C)

Wards Happy Chickens may be our senior egg purveyor.  Patsy and Lawrence Ward began selling in the Market about 2000.  Their chickens enjoy houses that have been in the Ward family for four generations as well as their own fenced yards. (aisle A)

Birch Creek Farm is the companion to Mimi’s Soaps.  Carol and Glenn Pryor added eggs and vegetables to their products a couple of years ago.  Their seventy or so chickens are heritage breeds that also have heritage coops on the farm. (aisle D)

Meadows Farm sells eggs from seven different breeds.  Meadows raises their chickens on the farm as part of becoming “Animal Welfare Approved.”   (aisle H, Downtown wall)