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HOW IT ALL STARTED
The story of Pete & Gerry’s began in the late 1800’s at the Ward Family Farm in Monroe, New Hampshire, where Robert Ward grew up farming dairy cattle and hens.

After World War II, Robert’s son Les returned home from distinguished service as a Navy Dive Bomber pilot, and decided to expand the egg farming business. He started with just a few hundred hens and kept growing; soon his brother-in-law Rodney Stanton joined him.

Les and Rodney kept our farm going through good times and bad—but others weren’t so lucky. Beginning in the 1980s, industrial-scale egg producers cornered the market and forced most small egg farms out of business.

AVOIDING THE FACTORY-FARM TRAP
When Les passed the farm on to his daughter Carol, son-in-law Gerry Laflamme and Rodney’s son Peter Stanton, they led our farm down a different path—one that led away from factory-style farming.

Instead of “going industrial,” we changed to cage-free, organic eggs produced without antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, GMOs or animal byproducts. Later, we became the first Certified Humane egg farm in the country.

A BETTER WAY TO GROW
Today our business is healthy and growing—but we will never become a factory farm. We help other family farms thrive instead of swallowing them up.

Gerry and Carol’s son Jesse Laflamme now runs our farm with the help of his dad—and he’s raised the bar even higher with his commitment to small-scale farming, organic foods, humane treatment of animals and conservation. Jesse and his wife Sandra love having their children help out at the farm.

We’re proud of our family farm and hope you enjoy the fresh, wholesome eggs we produce!