LAST EDITED ON 12-03-03 AT 03:48 PM (EST)Of course some of the scenes were staged... hell, the whole thing is staged, that's the point. The point of buying eggs was to see how they'd handle the responibility for transporting eggs -- just like the whole point of the series is to see who they'll act while living a "simple life."
The new addition on the house was the bribe used to get the family to participate. We did a couple of behind-the-scenes news stories based on reports from locals back when the show was filming, including the bad blood they left behind -- check out the stories near the bottom of the below link:
http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/newsshow.php?x=59
...obviously the well was around long before the porch was added -- otherwise they wouldn't have located it in the middle of the porch.