Dubbed "Queen of the Coop" by the media, 5th generation chicken keeping expert, cookbook author, and Maine Master Gardener Lisa Steele is the creator of the popular backyard poultry brand Fresh Eggs Daily®. She has been sharing time-tested advice on raising backyard flocks, as well as recipes using eggs fresh from her coop and produce fresh from her gardens, for nearly 20 years.
LISA STEELE | Founder of Fresh Eggs Daily®
Lisa Steele is the founder of the popular lifestyle and chicken keeping brand Fresh Eggs Daily® which has nearly a million followers worldwide across the social media platforms and continues to grow as backyard chicken keeping becomes more and more popular.
The 5th generation of women in her family that has raised poultry, Lisa ultimately moved to Maine where she raises a backyard full of chickens, ducks, and geese. Prior to that, after a lucrative career on Wall Street, she retired from the corporate rat race and opened a bookstore on Long Island that she operated for several years before selling it and returning the a more rural lifestyle.
Fresh Eggs Daily is a well-respected brand that includes a blog/website, social media, books, products, and a television show that airs on PBS/CreateTV. Recognized as one of the original backyard chicken keeping experts on social media, Lisa has been the sole contributor to Fresh Eggs Daily since its inception and continues to be the well-recognized face of the brand.
Focusing on natural and time-tested methods for raising happy, healthy backyard flocks, Fresh Eggs Daily continues to strike a chord among both homesteaders and those raising flocks in urban and suburban areas. Hundreds of thousands of loyal readers trust the advice that Lisa shares with them on her website and social media platforms to help them raise flocks.
AUTHOR
Lisa has
written 7 books on raising backyard poultry flocks including
Fresh Eggs Daily: Raising Happy, Healthy Chickens Naturally, Duck Eggs Daily: Raising Happy Healthy Ducks Naturally, Let's Hatch Chicks and
Gardening with Chickens which have sold nearly 200,000 copies worldwide and been translated into French and German. Her debut cookbook
The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook was published in 2022, and her second cookbook
In Season will be out in May 2026.
Over the years, Fresh Eggs Daily has become the go-to expert source for everything related to backyard flocks and cooking with eggs and has been featured
in national publications such as Business Week, Buzzfeed, Down East magazine, Food & Wine, Forbes, the Huffington Post, The New York Times The Farmers Almanac, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox News, CNN, Outside Magazine, Parade magazine, Popular Science, Readers Digest, Real Simple, The Splendid Table, The Spruce Eats, USA Today, and The Washington Post, Parade, Woman's World, The Spruce Eats, The Splendid Table, and Martha.com as well as on
The View and Dr. Oz.
The Fresh Eggs Daily Line of Poultry Products
In 2018, building on the fresh, holistic methods of chicken keeping that the brand has become known for, Lisa launched a Fresh Eggs Daily private-label line of natural poultry products which has grown into a $1 million business on Chewy.com and Amazon and began appearing on retail store shelves early in 2024. In early 2026, the line was picked up by Tractor Supply and is available instore and on their website nationwide.
Fresh Eggs Daily has also collaborated with many national brands such as Duluth Trading Company, The Spice House, Lehmans, Stonewall Kitchen, Oakhurst Dairy, Lodge, Maine Spirits, and Wayfair.
The Fresh Eggs Daily blog was named one of the Top Ten Gardening Blogs by Better Homes & Gardens magazine in 2014, currently receives more than 300,000 page views each month, and has enjoyed more than 70 million visits since it launched it in 2012.
A few of the most popular blog posts over the years include...
10+ Ways to Figure out if Chicks will be Hens or Roosters
Why Eggs Should be Stored with the Pointy End Down
How to Freeze Leftover Egg Yolks and Whites
The Secret to Perfectly Peeled Eggs
15+ Foods You Shouldn't Feed your Chickens
For more tips, advice, and information follow Fresh Eggs Daily on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
More about Lisa
For press or media inquiries, interview requests,
and other publicity opportunities, please contact
To contact Lisa Steele or Fresh Eggs Daily directly, click here. Send mail to:
PO Box 172
Dixmont ME 04932
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