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I grew up a country girl and used to dream about returning to farming once again, so I always enjoy a book about farming and country life.

The author Lucie and her husband, Jason were not country people and they were in the mist of building a backyard coop for their five chickens, when Jason dropped his decision that they should become chicken/egg farmers after Joel Salatin's made famous in The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. At the time Jason had a well paying job and Lucie was planning on entering a graduate program for writing. This scene had shades of my ex and why that came into being. It could have colored my view of Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch.

While it didn't taint my enjoyment of the book it did in fact stay in my peripheral vision for the entirety. Lucie B. Amundsen is a good writer with a sense of humor. She is fully aware of the double entendre of her product name and book title. She can roll those out by the dozens . I would love to see her write a lively and cheeky romance.

Amundsen is able to explain intricate concepts adeptly, so the reader can understand such concepts as middle agriculture and First and Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Anyone at all interested in farming, animals and back to the land will find this book quite interesting.