How Pete & Gerry's Cage-Free Eggs Are A Model For Other Small Farmers

If you painted a picture of a New England farm, it might look like Farmer John’s. On the way there, you pass horses and cows, rolling green hills and weathered wood barns.

Modern industry’s only intrusion into the bucolic Lyndonville, Vt., landscape are the huge silos perched on stilts to the left of a 27,000 square-foot coop, which houses 18,000 chickens.

“I think about the chickens when I go to bed at night,” John Miller told MarketWatch during a summer visit to his farm. “I’m thinking about their food, [and] ‘Am I doing this right?’ I’m also thinking about Jesse’s business.”

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