Lucie B. Amundsen

Lucie B. Amundsen is a writer, marketer and reluctant farmer.
She and her husband co-own Locally Laid Egg Company, a farm that provides pasture-raised eggs in Northern Minnesota and partners with a total of seven other mid-level producers. These farms source and sell within their own regions to reduce food miles and strengthen local economies.
A former contributor to the Minneapolis Star Tribune and former editor at Reader’s Digest Association, Lucie has written for scores of publications in her decade-plus freelance career.
Her Open Letter broke the Internet – okay, just Lucie’s little part of the Internet with over 400K views.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University.

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