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68 Morristown Magazine ROOM TO ROAM At 400/acre—not 150-300,000/barn like some cage free hens, Handsome Brook Farm hens wander in fresh air and forage on mother nature’s bounty. I n Morristown, organic, socially-conscious egg production is no-yolking matter. In October of 2022, the Handsome Brook Far- ms family announced it was opening its newest processing facility in the East Tennessee Progress Center. A year later, the company had begun trial pro- duction and was preparing to ship its first product to a customer. The company renovated the former Albea building to house its processes to intake fresh eggs and use a hard-boil and de-shelling system to produce ready-to- eat products for grocers and big box retailers. The company anticipates that once under full pro- duction, the facility will be the largest of its kind in the country. Handsome Brook Farms utilizes a network of far- Roam Where they Want to Handsome Brook Farms brings socially-concious egg production to Morristown