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Can you tell the difference between these two eggs?  Let me get a little bit closer...how about now?  Do you notice the extra depth in color of the one on the right from the one on the left?  The one on the left is a store-bought egg, and the one of the left is from one of our chickens.     Being raised in New York, I don't think that I would have ever been able to tell you the difference between a store-bought...

We've got them in all colors & at all stages.  Some are already ready & ripe, while others are still green.  We put them up on the sill by the sink where they can get some sunlight and continue to ripen and then dry out.  Then once they're done drying out, well probably cut the stems off, remove the seeds, and powder them down in our coffee grinder:-)  -The Farmer's Assist...

Aren't these beautiful!!  And we've got all kinds in there.  There's the ancient sweets, banana peppers, cayennes, bell peppers, poblanos, you name it.  Peppers anyone? :-)  Happy Gardening! -Chemeek...

 One of Don's co-workers shared these nice peppers with us from his garden.  So we took a few of them and made some yummy jalapeno cornbread!  First, we removed all of the seeds and membranes. And then after giving them a good chop I added them to my cornbread mixture. I poured it all into my cast iron skillet that I had already heated and oiled.   And topped it with a nice mexican blend...

These little "berries" are about as sweet as they come...when you talk about tomatoes, that is.  These are our very sweet & very delicious grape tomatoes.  Love 'em!  In a salad, in with pasta, or just a snack.  I'm serious, they're delicious & sweet! And of course you know that I couldn't forget a couple of pics of the garden to date.   The corn is pretty much finished for the season but it...

 I took a few pictures out in the garden this morning. There is a nice calm outside and a soft dew resting on everything. The corn is not cut down just yet but it will be once it's done.   I also took a few pictures of one of our wild plum trees.  All of these little plums are ripe but even ripe they are quite bitter.  The plums have a large pit with a little bit of fruit surrounding it. And here's...

This is our humble little orchard.  In it we have over 12 different varieties of apple, pear and peach trees.  Each of them is a different variety and some of them are what you would call, "heritage" apples or pears.  They are in their second year, now.  They were little sapplings when we planted them two years ago but should be bearing fruit in about another two-three years. ...