01/26/2025
Regarding the "egg shortage" -
At Gardner Grove Family Farms maintaining the long term relationship with the community we serve has always been our top goal.
When events in the world outside of our farm create shortages , either artificial or real , as long as there's no increase in costs for us, our prices don't change.
Some of you may remember during the panic of covid, we didn't stop bringing our goods when everything shut down. There wasn't any increase in our prices.
In fact, for a while, we were one of the only vendors delivering food to a certain store that defied fear mongering as well and stayed open. Franklin was like a ghost town.
The point to all this is, we do our best to take care of everyone. Sometimes there's more than enough, just enough and occasionally not what we hoped to have. That's reality. If you buy our products year round, you are why we can come year round. Eventually, we'll probably have what you want and plenty of it. All things ebb and flow. It's why we encourage you to get it while it's there.
With more people looking for eggs, it puts pressure on our finite supply. So there's two things to consider:
Farming 101: It's a couple of thousand dollars to get 100 birds laying from the time they're ordered as day old chicks and daily care for over 4 months before the first single egg.
Once that gets going, they don't stop eating that high dollar non GMO all natural feed and won't stop laying eggs if you felt like going to the grocery store instead of coming to the park. Do you know what happens to eggs that don't sell? They are either fed to the pigs, boiled and re fed to the birds or get buried in the ground. That's like using $50 bills to line your hamster cage. How many times would you want to do that a year?
Two, is that those same grocery stores that sell a remarkably inferior egg, don't blink when jacking UP the price, because they can. So do other retailers and unfortunately people who are greedy. Some of whom you'll run into elsewhere but not here at what's still the lone farmer market at Liberty Park. We have hope other farmers will share in these values and join us. We're there either way.
Thank you for your support.
