Move over ComiCon, here comes AgriCon

Eggs are having a moment. “You paid what for a dozen?” But for Christine Hutchinson of Newburgh, NY, a veteran teacher and self-described tinkerer, an egg lies at the core of her journey into growing the next generation of young farmers.

“Relax, it’s just an egg,” said Hutchinson to her co-workers when they would rave about the eggs delivered by a local farmer to their school building in Newburgh, NY. But when she finally brought the famed eggs home to try, it was a life-altering epiphany. “I wanted that type of egg in my life,” she said, “and I was never going to eat regular eggs again.”