Paul Righetti’s left-hand man is a dog. A dog called Oscar. He is a Maremma guard dog that looks after the ISA brown hens that graze on pasture on his farm outside Guildford. The birds lay eggs sold under the Honest Egg Co. label. “We don’t like to talk about free-range, because that can mean 1500 birds sitting outside a shed without a blade of grass!” explains Paul. “Instead, we see ourselves as regenerative farmers.” The flocks of birds are free to roam on fresh pasture, scratching about for seeds, insects, and small stones to help digest the grain in which they are also fed.
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