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If you live in el Matarraña, Spain, this will be the place to order the very best free-range eggs.

My chickens live a simple life, freely pecking and scratching away their days through olive groves. Each day, they lay delicious nutrient-dense eggs while improving the soil, fertilising the trees and promoting a healthy ground cover. Any extra feed is strictly eco-certified. Happy hens, happy land!

Great eggs are one thing, great service is another. I think you will enjoy doing business with me, though.

Eggs done right, before you get to cook them just right.

I can't promise all the eggs I deliver will have been laid yesterday, but for sure, it won't be more than 48 hours since they first saw daylight.

You can rely on a regular egg delivery day to your village and a Whatsapp reminder the day before.

As far as price, Olive Grove Eggs aren't going to be the cheapest. On the other hand, I can promise they won't come close to the exaggerated supermarket prices for eco-stamped, or as I call them, standard eggs. Also expect a couple of interesting options for inflation-beating eggs.

I'm sure there will be a payment option on the list that suits you.

Exciting times. Before you go...

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Follow progress as I build up a chicken farm from scratch on an olive grove in Spain.

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Eco in principle, but not in the eyes of the law.

Legally, my eggs won't ever qualify as "eco", which may surprise you. Ditto any other fresh food available in the future.

I will leave it up to you to decide what you call eggs from chickens who spend their whole day freely pecking, scratching and pooping their way through olive groves, regenerating soil, fertilising trees. All their supplementary feed and the seeds broadcast to kickstart the ground cover are eco-certified. Even their water is stripped of the chlorine and chemical crap that comes out my mains tap. The birds are safe as houses, mobile houses, watched over by guardian dogs.

Don't get me wrong, the regulations and guidleines for eco certification are, for the most part, wise and fair. But I refuse to comply with daft rules such as "providing birds with free access to the outdoors 24 hours a day". Chickens sleep through the night like you and me, and as a prey animal, the last thing they would ever do is jump off their perch at 3am for a walk, drinks and snacks.

Also, I don't want to lend any support to the 4m2/bird rule for free-range eco egg layers. Conventional chicken farms are set up static. Big concrete coops in the middle of a big field with the doors left open. If the field is 400m2, the regs state that up to 100 birds can live on that same patch, forever. That is great compared to the space afforded non-eco birds, but even so, the green fields showing in the day one photoshoot are pecked bare within a few months, if not weeks. With the mobile system I have adopted, the birds enjoy access to 40m2 each and every year that 40m2 should end up greener and greener.

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