Lari or others, egg buying ?

Littlejen22

Ok, I feel like a moron but if you bought eggs from someone with a sign at the end of their driveway, how did you contact them to buy eggs?  Just knock on their door?  They don't have a phone number on the sign.  Oh, and the reason I said I was scared was that the one place looks scary!  Like not clean tiny broken down looking house...I think I will try the other place I drove past today, it is so weird to me b/c I never really paid any attention until this week and now I see a few signs within 2 minutes of my house and I am totally in the suburbs but there are a lot of farms in my town too.

femmegem

If I were scared to even approach the house I think I'd go elsewhere.

AnnapolisLari

I am not trying to be nasty, but I think that you need to get over some of your suburban hangups. Farms are dirty and often run down, not tidy little HGTV showplaces. If I had been afraid of the run down house where I buy my maple syrup, I would have missed out on meeting a very nice old man who very kindly showed my kids the whole syrup making process, fed them eggs from his own hens boiled in the sap, and gave me tons of home grown tomatoes last summer.

Just go up and knock on the door. It's not like you're going into the house. You pay for the eggs, they hand them to you. Done.

Most people who sell eggs don't wash them, so you'll have to before you use them.

KoriBrett

Pretty much what Lari said.  Farmers tend to focus on function and not looks.  If you're really creeped out, just go somewhere else if you can.  But just knock on the door, "hey I saw the sign, I'd like x dozen eggs please".  Most times they'll talk your ear off and be almost TOO nice because they have nobody to talk to but the chickens LOL  

Try not to be creepified :-)

AnnapolisLari

KoriBrett:

  Most times they'll talk your ear off and be almost TOO nice because they have nobody to talk to but the chickens LOL  

SO true. But they are also usually3rd generation locals who can give you all kinds of tips on where to get the best XYZ at the best price. My firewood guy looks like he stepped out of Deliverance and is the nicest man. He called around to find me the best deal on snow removal this winter before we got the snowblower. How many people DO stuff like that any more?