Look on your local Craigslist under farm and garden. People sometimes offer their pasture raised eggs that way. I even found two duck egg suppliers.

I pay $6 for a dozen pastured eggs here in Portland, OR. So, while $7.5 seems a bit high, it's still a super cheap food at 62 cents per egg. What other food gives you so much excellent nutrition for so little?

That price is insanely high. Go to this site http://www.localharvest.org/ and search for farms with pastured eggs in your area. Also check for local farmers markets. Even in the DC area I don't pay more than $4/doz for pastured chicken eggs.

For what it is worth, pastured eggs cost $8/dzn in San Francisco. I used to buy them and they were fantastic, but I'm more budget conscious these days. At another market, non pastured but still local family farm eggs run $5 for 30.

I get mine for $3.50 per dozen. There might be better options in your area.

http://www.eatwild.com/products/index.html

If you travel to any state's webpage, that's the page for specific farms in that state. To find things like grocery stores, there'll be a link to the right of the Google Map that says Go "Beyond the Farm"

here in westchester ny my best case scenario is pastured (but also supplemented with some grain) for $4.50 a dozen at the local farmer's market but there's a huge caveat on that. the farm that provides it had a chicken shortage last year due to a fox problem and now with the snow and ice we've had they're not getting many eggs so it's been a big crapshoot on whether they'll have eggs at all each week.

another poultry farm shows up at the indoor market and has good-tasting "free roaming" eggs for the same price but they're always well stocked. so on a hunch this morning i asked how the winter is impacting their farm and the lady tells me the chickens are all kept in a large heated barn.... so i guess they're free-roaming is confined to an indoor space. they don't get any bugs, just grain. this is a bummer because i've been buying these eggs for a month with my usual supplier out. i will probably continue to do so because they seem like high quality and i don't have another strong option... whole foods is the only other local source for pastured eggs and it is a schlep and overpriced - i believe about $7/dozen.

I live outside Houston. At Farmer's Markets I've seen them $4, $5, even $6 a dozen depending on availability.

But it wasn't too difficult to find people in the area who raise chickens for fun and have a glut of eggs. The ladies I found will deliver a dozen for $2 or $3. There's a group of us where I work who order every week.

Great suggestion about buying in bulk. If the ick factor isn't too strong for you, just brushing the dirt off the eggs (instead of washing them with soap) and keeping the hen's anti-bacterial coating on the egg will help them last at least 6 weeks. I refrigerate, but supposedly you don't have to.

If you find a good source to buy in bulk you can freeze them. I use small containers or freezer-style ziploc bags and write the number on the outside. You can scramble them up first or just break the yolk a little. If you try to freeze the yolk separately, it gets weirdly gummy. Yes, this freezing probably causes some kind of loss of nutrients, but it was certainly wonderful to have eggs when the hens weren't laying.

Um heeeeell no... 7.50 should get you at least 3 dozen... Go local, you will not be sorry

Vital farm's chickens only get 1/3 of their food from pasture, according to a sign posted at my whole foods in NYC. That said, if you can afford it, they still might be the best egg available to you.

I'd vote for finding a local farmer or health food store if you can find one. Eggs keep forever refrigerated, so if you can't find one near by, you can buy in bulk to reduce the need for driving out of your way.

That said, if you find money easier to come by than time, or there really isn't a local supplier of pastured eggs, then I'd go for it. In my area (central PA) I pay between $2.50 and $3.50 per dozen for truly pastured eggs, or $1 dozen for pastured eggs that are supplemented with commercial grain from a friend who's a farmer.

As for whether the price is fair or not- supply and demand. It's certainly an exorbitant price for where I live, but for where you live, it might be fair.

I pay 3.50 a dozen for pastured eggs here in NYC,which is the cheapest I have found so far.

I can't think of many(if any)places here in the US with pricier food,so my best suggestion would be to look elsewhere. Perhaps a local farm or farmer's market ?

THat price may not actually be high depending on what his cost for production is. My farmer and my WAPF affiliates generally believe that eggs should be around $5-6 per dozen but farmers have to remain competitive so they lower then price to move more units.

Here is another data point:

In North-central and northeast PA, I pay $2 when I buy direct from the farm where I also get all my pastured meat from. 95% of this farm's business is from selling sides of pastured meat - the eggs are just a sideline, which is likely why the price is so low.

There are two other farms I buy from that are primarily raising just poultry and eggs and these farms charge more: $3.00-$4.00. I also sometimes buy at farmers markets and usually pay ~$3.50 - $4.00

I like buying directly from a farm because then you can be confident re the living conditions and diet of the hens.

I get them for $3 a dozen in Houston. $7.50 is insane.

For awhile wholefoods chicgaoland area, sell them for 8.00 a dozen and 5.99 half dozen! Ridiculous! I do like them but the price insults me. For goodness sake, are they golden chickens or what? They lost most of my business. I used ti buy 4 doz a month, now I buy maybe 1 doz every other month. I buy other brands.

Well, in Switzerland that's par for the course. I pay 60 cents an egg, so it's $7.20 a dozen. That's pastured, but not organic. Organic is even more expensive. But then it's Switzerland, and everything here is gold plated.