This is at the request of a third grader named Poppy from Miss Campbell’s class at the Langley School in McLean, Virginia, who wrote a letter to Rhode Island Monthly asking locals here to describe our ...

In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and grasshoppers in August—their yolks took on the color of a sunset and tasted good ...