freely and eat the natural grass. and that they believe makes for a higher-quality egg. eggs, they apparently could not live without, because when the fire seemingly destroyed the business, her customers got together and said, we re not going to let that happen. we had a fancy auction. we had a raffle. we had several fund-raising dinners. reporter: bonnie powell led the effort to raise $30,000 to keep the farm in business. it was kind of amazing how many people just felt touched by this, like, like, no, we can t let soul food farm die. reporter: the farm still struggles to make money, but alexis loves her land, loves her way of life. thank you very much. my husband will be excited. reporter: you could say she s just fine putting all her eggs in one basket. thank you! reporter: dan simon, cnn, vacaville, california. let me bring you up to speed on on some of the top stories we re following. officials at a massachusetts high school say they ve disciplined and removed
from that. it s just too hard. reporter: starting the farm wasn t easy. alexis and her husband had no farming experience. she was in marketing. he was a structural engineer. yet as soon as they began selling their chicken eggs, many chefs from the finest local restaurants, including alice waters from the nationally renowned cehz pannisse, said it was among the best they d ever tasted. grow something that really is tasty, i ll buy it all. reporter: the farm was saved not just because of its high-quality eggs and meat, but also because of its philosophy. this egg comes from chickens that are probably crammed in cages. maybe eight, ten birds in a cage. reporter: she explained by showing us two different eggs. one from a chain grocery store and one of hers. and this is a chicken egg that she got to lay her egg how she felt like, after being outside, eating grass and bugs. reporter: this is what those chefs like so much, what you re seeing right here. the chickens roam the fie
stomach stomachs. it s a chance to make the trying times a little less trying. dan simon has the story. there you go. look at that. that s pretty. reporter: apparently green eggs aren t just found in the doctor seuss classic. you almost don t want to eat it because it s so green. i know. reporter: we re at the organic soul food chicken farm an hour from san francisco. it s a business that stirs such passion that loyal customers refuse, quite literally, to let it go down in flames. after a fire killed 1,200 chicks and destroyed their coops last september, alexis cokeland and her husband, eric, thought the struggling farm they started just three years ago was finished. did you think you were going to be out of business? oh, i was convinced we were done, you know? we d already were skating by. eric had lost his job. we were just living off of this land. that was a half month s income that went up in smoke. i thought, we ll never recover