{"id":3460,"date":"2023-04-11T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.alumni.ncsu.edu\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T20:20:52","slug":"some-good-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/2023\/some-good-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Good Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Trey Braswell \u201907 and his family, one of the highlights of the past weekend was a series of Easter egg hunts at their home in Nashville, N.C. Between gatherings for family, school groups and church groups, Braswell figures they had four different hunts over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that was nothing compared to the Easter festivities Braswell and his family\u2019s farm helped make possible in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the second consecutive year, Braswell Family Farms<\/a> provided the eggs – 30,000 of them this year \u2014 for the long-running Easter Egg Roll on the lawn of the White House. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden \u2014 as well as the Easter Bunny and a handful of celebrities \u2014 were there to help small children use large spoons to roll colorful eggs across the lawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And while 30,000 eggs seems like an awful lot of eggs, it\u2019s not a particularly big number for Braswell Family Farms. That\u2019s because they have about 1.7 million chickens. \u201cOn the scale of things, it\u2019s not a lot,\u201d says Braswell, the farm\u2019s president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bigger challenge was that the farm also had to make sure the eggs were hard-boiled and dyed before they got to Washington, D.C. \u201cThat is quite an undertaking,\u201d Braswell says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n