With an ongoing egg shortage and super-high egg prices – the result of avian flu, rising supply costs or corporate greed, depending who you talk to – many consumers are trying to go directly to the source: farms.
“We get customers calling us from San Jose and all over the place. I’m getting all these calls, because the stores don’t have any,” says DaVonne Johnson of Johnson Farm, which sells to local markets and also regular customers who visit the farm – by appointment – in the East Bay’s Briones.
In this case, they’ll have to wait: Most folks who book an appointment to visit Johnson’s are looking at a