Listowel area egg farmers give back [Video]

It’s an egg assembly line outside Gray Ridge Egg Farms processing facility in Listowel.

Volunteers with the Listowel Salvation Army are here to pick up free eggs, produced by local egg farmers, for their Christmas hamper program.

“We’re happy to donate 310 dozen eggs to the Salvation Army. Egg Farmers of Ontario have been a sponsor to the Salvation Army since at least 2017,” says Listowel area egg producer, Tonya Haverkamp.

The annual egg donation comes at an important time for the local food bank, who have seen a 30 per cent increase in demand this year alone.

“We had 310 families applying for a Christmas hampers, which was up from, I think it was around 270 last year. So, the need is really great, and it’s so fantastic that we have farmers from this agricultural area that we live in, stepping up to help out. We really have a …