Fuel the Body
Just being a kid
7-12
Allowed it
Photo and reporting by
Your Wyoming Link
What the parent did
His mother Valerie had the egg stand idea first, but she made the deal explicit before anything got built: if you want the fruits of the labor, you have to do the labor. Then she stepped back.
Braxton raises a flock of laying hens and runs the egg stand he sells them from, doing the feeding, watering and mucking out every day before anyone buys a carton.
Where it happened:
Cheyenne, WY
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Braxton built a whole business around daily hen care, but your family can start with a single morning visit to a coop. Let your kid collect one warm egg and cook it up for breakfast to get a taste of where food actually comes from.