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Feeding the Body & the Soul
For four generations, the leadership of Braswell Family Farms has leaned on their faith. Their operation is sizeable – the family-owned business employs over 225 people at their Nashville,N.C., headquarters and beyond to produce over 720 million eggs each year –
but the Braswell family knows they are simply stewards of a great blessing.
Over the last 81 years, the Braswell family has held fast to the words of 1 Corinthians 10:31,“whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” They have a deep respect for their role in the community. They know the responsibility of a farmer is one you cannot take lightly and they know the importance of not only feeding the body, but also the soul.
How it started
Braswell Family Farms was founded in 1943 when brothers J.M. and E.G Braswell purchased the historic Boddie Mill in Nashville. There, the pair produced corn meal for the community local farmers and neighbors — mindful to close every Sunday for rest and worship. In the 1950s, the second generation of Braswells joined the business and, like each subsequent generation, took steps to grow the operation. They began selling young hens to egg producers and contracting with local farmers to keep hens.
The business grew steadily over those early years and, in 1969, they built a state-of-the-art feed mill before purchasing and expanding Red Hill Egg Farm. In the 1970s. Then, in 1989, Braswell’s third-generation leader, Ronald “Scott” Braswell Jr., saw a new opportunity. He took a chance as a founding member of the Eggland’s Best franchise – a leap of faith that nutritionally enhanced eggs were the way of the future.
How it’s going
Today, the company is led by a fourth generation in Ronald “Trey” Braswell III who took over from his father in 2008.
You can still see the stamp of each previous generation’s impact on Braswell Family Farms. In 2017, Braswell Foods officially rebranded to Braswell Family Farms under Trey’s leadership. From Scott’s leap of faith in 1989 to today, Braswell Family Farms has become the second largest Eggland’s Best and Land O’ Lakes franchisee in the United States producing specialty eggs of nearly all shapes and sizes: cage free, free range, pasture raised and organic.
