You can’t change the world overnight – but some brave individuals are leading the fight! Adele Douglass was sick of the inhumane treatment of farm animals in the food industry and decided to make a change, which led to the creation of HFAC – Humane Farm Animal Care and their Certified Humane program. This program […]
About Vital Farms Vital Farms Inc. is the leading brand of humanely-raised eggs and poultry in the US. In five short years we have grown to a company of some fifty employees and over fifty supplier farms in six states, from Georgia to Texas to California. Our eggs and chicken are sold to grocery store […]
We’ve been getting a lot of emails from customers that drive an hour (or two or three) to buy our pasture-raised eggs, and we couldn’t be more thankful. You’re choosing to be good to your bodies, but not so good on your gas tank. The good news is – you can freeze eggs for later! […]
Don’t you love when trash suddenly becomes a treasure? Here are 20 awesome uses for the shells, after you’ve already enjoyed the egg. Calcium water – Soak eggshells or use the (cooled down) from your boiled eggs, then water plants. Homemade chalk – Mix flour and hot water, and then add eggshell powder until it’s […]
My favorite way to eat eggs is to dip toast into a runny yolk. Whether that means a perfectly cooked over-medium or soft-boiled egg, it doesn’t matter. It just so happens that it’s really easy to cook one of those to perfection, the other not so much. Here I tested out three different methods on […]
If you’re not the app type (or don’t have a smartphone), our last blog post is no help for your egg boiling needs. So, we’ve decided to test the cold boil, long boil and hot boil methods the old fashioned way. Cold boil: Fill up a pot with cold water, an inch over the egg. […]
Boiling water is one of the easiest things to do in the kitchen. Putting an egg into said boiling water just made things a LOT more difficult. How do I get the yolk just right? How long should I cook and on what heat? Does it matter if I’m on a mountain in Colorado at my […]
We ran a little survey to find out what people think and believe some of the most common egg label terms mean. The results are surprising! Seems like people want eggs from chickens raised outdoors on pastures, but have been led to believe that that’s what ‘free-range’ and ‘cage-free’ are. We all know the truth […]
While our girls are outside eating salad and croutons all day (that’s grass and critters to you and I), that’s not always enough to keep them laying these beautiful eggs. So while a lot of the goodness that these eggs are packed with (the vitamins, the beta carotene, and more) comes from what they find […]
If you purchase our pasture-raised eggs, you’ll know that only our Vital Farms and Pasture Verde eggs are Certified Organic. On a crowded shelf, it can sometimes be a little confusing to understand what this means – in amongst the ‘free-range’, ‘cage-free’, ‘added Omega-3s’ eggs, how important is an Organic Certification, and how does it fit […]
Some of you may have heard about the recent draft guidance from the FDA regarding outdoor access for organic and pastured egg producers. There is a lot of misinformation about what this means for organic and pasture-raised egg producers, and we want to set the record straight. This draft guidance was created in response to […]
In the summer months, who wants to spend a lot of time over the stove? We like to eat healthy and easy to prepare meals using fresh ingredients. Enjoy this perfect summer recipe from Vital Farms contributor Pooja Mottl. Pronounced “Bee Beem Bop”, this dish is a highly nourishing classic meal in Korean cuisine. It’s […]
