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This afternoon we went and checked the wild asparagus locations we found last year and cut a really nice mess for our lunch.

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It’s time to transplant our tomatoes! We are planting hybrid and heirloom varieties this year. The heirlooms were grown in our little grow box and the hybrids were bought at a local greenhouse near Hamilton, MO. We have a few more heirloom varieties we are trying to grow from seed, but so far there are 14 plants out in the garden. We’ve transplanted Super sweet 100, Cherokee Purple, Carolina Gold, Amy Sugar Gem, Suddath Brandywine, and a roma.

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My brother came over with his deer meat from last fall and we finally got around to grinding up the portions we had set aside for burger. With the price of hamburger these days this meat will help to offset our grocery bill.

Our grinder is one of the Cabela’s models and is rated at 1 HP. It does a great job and is much quieter than the old bet driven setup we used for years.

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We were finally able to pick our first piece of asparagus that we’ve grown here at home. We bought year old roots three years ago and have left them be up until now. While its not enough for a meal, it was exciting to harvest our own asparagus for the first time. Yes, we are simple folks.

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Today I went looking for a missing hen. After hearing her I narrowed my search and found her under the back porch steps. After she finished I went to look and found this in the picture. No idea how any times I’ve walked right over this nest!

It was pretty cold last night, so I fear many of these eggs are no longer good. Notice the chicken egg?

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With the rain this evening we found ourselves inside and decided to try our hand at baking our own hamburger buns. They turned out well, next time I’d like to try making them a little smaller. Considering this was our first attempt at this I’m very happy with our results.

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We decided to try our hands a dehydrating our own eggs. We used a bakers dozen for our first try. We will rehydrate them for cooking with two parts water to one part eggs.

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I started some heirloom seeds that had been in the refrigerator or a year last week. As you can see, they’ve begun to sprout and are doing well. We have a risk of freezing temps several nights this week so they won’t be transplanted for some time yet. To protect these we will place an old moving blanket over it in the evenings.

Also inside our mini green house and several varieties of heirloom tomato, spinach, pumpkin, cucumbers, bell peppers, jalapeño peppers and banana peppers. There were started later and haven’t sprouted yet.

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Last night the girls and I went out to check in the baby New Zealand’s. you could just see they’re beginning to open their little eyes. This morning one baby was able to partially open these tiny eyes. Hopefully soon they’ll be fully open and hopping every where.

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Forty one eggs loaded and ready to hatch! In twenty one days we should be in little chick heaven.

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