This week The Farm Report is pleased to welcome Jesse LaFlamme, head of Pete And Gerry's Organic Eggs, the first Certified Humane egg farm in the country. Pete and Gerry’s is proving commercial farming and organic, humane, sustainable farming are not mutually exclusive. Pete and Gerry’s has realized consistent growth without becoming a factory farm. Jesse recruits small family farms as egg producers, keeping family farmers in business and protecting valuable open space. He combines state-of-the-art husbandry and farming technology with streamlined and efficient processing to make Pete and Gerry’s cost competitive with much larger operations. Those efficiencies also allow him to share those margins with his producers. Jesse is one of the new breed of 21st Century farmers who understands that the world needs commercial farms to feed its inhabitants, but needs to do it without degrading the environment and exploiting livestock. This episode is sponsored The Barterhouse.

"[Farmers] just want to be farmers, it sounds basic, but in today's big agriculture that is hard to do." -Jesse LaFlamme, head of Pete & Gerry's Organic Eggs on The Farm Report

On this Valentine's Day episode of Unfiltered host Brian DiMarco and Lucy Muellner guide you on the perfect selection of bubbly for your special night. Their choice for romance? Go with a good Rosé for your dinner plans. To further explain the delicious virtues of this wine they are joined by Jason Carter of Barrel 27 winery in California. Tune in to find out the best choice for any price point. This episode is sponsored by The Barterhouse.

"The two, particularly for American palates, most underestimated wines out there for food are sparklings and rosés, and people dont play around enough with those two categories."

--Jason Carter on Unfiltered

This week on the Farm Report we see the return of guest Jesse LaFlamme from Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs. Jesse goes in depth about why big agriculture has gone the way it has with sometimes over 600,000 hens being stuffed in cages in a single barn and why he chooses to keep his chickens cage-free and certified humane. Tune in to learn about the life cycle of chickens and their breeding and laying patterns as well as what exactly a pullet egg is. Remember, an egg a day will keep you healthier and happier! This episode is sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.

"Everything is mechanical and down to an exact science [now] . . .it takes out the nuances that farmers usually have in terms of the relationship they have with their animals."

--Jesse LaFlamme on The Farm Report