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So…did you win that commercial?
Football’s Biggest Game? Put a bird on it. I get this question everyday and depending where I am, multiple times a day. It doesn’t bother me. In fact, when it comes, I know I’m talking to someone who’s...
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NYC and…OUR COMMERCIAL!
Heading home from New York yesterday was bittersweet. Intuit could not have been a more gracious host, but it feels right to leave behind all that rattled-up crazy from the parties, whirlwind...
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Our National AD is HERE!
I’ve been lucky to see a few TV commercials come together. And as a former Reader’s Digest publication editor, I took part in dozens of professional photo shoots. Truthfully, those days always felt...
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Chicken Feeders and Feed – What’s worked for LoLa
Vintage photo from our backyard flock A Word from Farmer Jason Before having thousands of birds on pasture, I had a backyard flock of hens. In my quest to learn all things thing chicken, I did lots of...
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Free the Chickens, Chick-ago style
We’re head-over-chicken toes that Locally Laid is now in Chicago – and why you should be, too. Our plucky pasture-raised egg company is now selling its local and tasty eggs in 45 locations — farm...
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A Shout Out to Community
Duluth Superior Living Magazine -photo credit Hansi Johnson You might know that our Northland community of Duluth, Minnesota was extraordinary to us during Intuit’s Small Business Big Game contest. So...
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Winter Quiet
It’s oddly quiet at our Wrenshall farm today. That’s because for the first time since 2012, we’re between flocks. For the past several weeks, we’ve been posting on Craigslist and moving birds on....
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Open Letter to the Man offended by Locally Laid
Dear Mr. (name withheld), Thank you for reaching out to let us know your opinion of the Locally Laid Egg Company. Not enough of us stand up for what we believe and I appreciate the time it took to...
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Keeping LoLa Healthy
Being a chicken-less egg farmer is bleak, desolate even. But that’s where we’re at — at least at our Wrenshall location. As you’ve likely heard, avian bird flu is sweeping the Midwest and taking...
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What we’re reading at the farm –“We Know How this Ends”
Out at the farm, I listen to many audio books, podcasts and in this heat, I like to sneak into the cooler to read for a few minutes every day that I am there – mostly egg-washing Sundays. While I’m...
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Remembering that wild Super Bowl Contest & YOU
buy phentermine without prescriptionHard to believe that two years ago we were sprinting through Intuit’s Small Business Big Game contest. tramadol online without prescriptionThere we were, this...
View ArticleA Little Book Signing Miracle…
I’m not really sure how the book is doing in the big picture, and sometimes I’m discouraged that it hasn’t really seen a national stage. Then something like this happens … I told the What the Faulk...
View ArticleBooksellers, Bat Sh*t & Scary Driveways
Here’s an excerpt of the short acceptance speech for the 2016 Midwest Choice Awards held recently in Minneapolis… Now I’ve been thinking about bookstores and midsize farms and they have some things...
View ArticleLoLa goes to…Little Rock?
Most days my email box is filled with mundane things like the weeks’ egg washing schedule and updates from my writing/marketing clients. And other days, you open a message inviting you to be a William...
View ArticleCocktail Party Primer — All Poultry Edition
It’s happening. Right now, folks are dusting the cheese trays and reaching into the high cupboard for the cocktail shakers in preparation of holiday parties — but are you ready with winsome...
View ArticleWhy Dec 31 is one of our favorite days…
On the last day of the year, Farmer Jason and our farmer/accountant Jeremy count up all the egg deliveries we did over the past 12 months. Then we plant a tree for each one. It’s a tip of the...
View ArticlePaperbacks & Postcards
I’ve known that the Locally Laid book was dropping in paperback on Tuesday, February 28th for a while, but even so — it’s rather snuck up on me. It was months ago that my lovely peeps at Penguin Random...
View ArticleWhat Future Lu would tell naive Past Lu about Farmin
Returning to 2012, I’d likely find us around the kitchen table. My husband, Jason, would be animated and engaged as he tried to jam together the rough-edged pieces for our pasture-raised egg farm,...
View ArticleA Student asks, ‘Why Shop Local’— well, that’s a fun question
We have a lot of college students contacting us as they study agriculture or marketing or even writing. But today I heard from someone studying business and she dropped this question: Why is it...
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