‘We’re going to lose everything’: Texas egg farm still waiting on federal aid after winter storm
Cedar Ridge Egg Farm in Hopkins County lost 1,000 of its hens, and most of the others stopped laying eggs.
Sam Miller, 55, holds one of the hens behind the barn at Cedar Ridge Free Range farm in Pickton, Texas on Saturday, February 27, 2021. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News)(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
After the snowstorm hit Texas last month, Sam Miller and his family thought they had managed to get through the worst of it unscathed. Their family egg farm and the 30 acres it sits on in Pickton, about 90 miles northeast of Dallas in Hopkins County, were blanketed in thick snow and ice, but they still had water and sporadic electricity. They were lucky.
A Farm-to-Fork Dinner at Profound Microfarms Was a Delicious Escape From a Hellish Week
Joel Orsini s six-course feast was sublime.
By Kathy Wise
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February 22, 2021
11:50 am
Feeling cooped up and claustrophobic, I had naively signed up a couple of weeks ago for Profound Foods’ Valentine’s Day dinner in their greenhouse in Lucas. Due to Snowpocalypse 2021, the event was delayed until Saturday, when the sun emerged and the thaw began.
Jeff Bednar and his wife, Lee, founded Profound Microfarms as a hydroponic and aquaponic farm in 2014, where they grew rare culinary herbs, edible flowers, and microgreens for chefs in North Texas. A few years later, they started collaborating with other local farms, such as Cartermere Farms in Celina and Chubby Dog Farm in Crockett, to coordinate deliveries and reduce costs, and Profound Foods was born.