It amazes me that you have people that will pay $7 per dozen, while my coworkers eyes glaze over when I explain to them the difference between my eggs and the ones that they get from sams club for .99 a dozen.
$7 bucks is just nuts. I doubt the vendor fees and traffic can equate to that much per dozen. It's the premium paid because locally grown is the new hip thing. You can't read a magazine these day without reading about how to be green or where to buy your food. It's become a fashionable thing...
I was in Portland today at the farmers market and I noticed a stand selling free range eggs. I nearly fainted when I saw they were $7 per dozen! I checked to see that that were actually chicken eggs and not duck or turkey, but alas they were chicken eggs. They weren't made of chocolate and they...