Karl Hammer has created an ingenious method of creating outstanding compost and outstanding eggs at the same time. He farms on a hilltop farm just within the city limits of Montpelier. He produces over 1000 dozen eggs per month from very happy and healthy black australorp and araucana hens, who are guarded by dozens of roosters and one German Shepherd; no fox will reach these hens. His compost is prized by many of the best organic vegetable growers in the Eastern and Mid-Western US, and his eggs are extraordinary.