Lisa Steele, a country girl at heart, left the flashy world of high finance in New York City to return to a simpler, rural life reminiscent of her childhood days on the farm. Now she’s a veritable chicken influencer with her own brand, Fresh Eggs Daily, with more than 2.4 million unique visitors to her site per year and a social media following of more than 900,000 fans. Far more comfortable in her current “business” suit of flannel shirt, jeans, and chicken-print muck boots, Steele says taking that “huge detour” to the big city helped her to truly appreciate this life she’s created. “It feels like coming home,” she said. A ‘Detour’ and a Homecoming A fifth-generation chicken keeper, Steele grew up in Oakdale, Massachusetts, surrounded by chickens at her home and across the street at her grandparents’ chicken farm. She remembers how her mother and grandmother fed all of …
From Wall Street to the Farm: Meet America’s Most Beloved Chicken-Keeping Guru
March 18, 2022
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