Bauer Family Farms

Today I'm talking with Leah at Bauer Family Farms. 

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sitting pretty with a nice coffee in my house and ready to chit chat about farm life.  Good.  And normally I would say, how's the weather? But you and I both know it is a gloriously beautiful day in Minnesota today.  Compared to yesterday, yes.  Yeah. And Saturday, Saturday, we got snow in the morning. Right. It was enough to to build up on the grass where we were at. We're we just had unhooked our our plow and everything and got it put away for the

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spring, which those couple of 80 degree days really, really had me going for a second there. Yeah. And I just said that wrong Sunday. It was yesterday morning. I'm not quite with it. Oh, you're right. Yeah. It was yesterday morning because I was up at five and at 515, I went out on the porch with my coffee and looked outside and I was like, I will be damned. It's snowing big white feathery flakes. Right. Which is not what you want to see once you've already had what? Five 80 degree days? Yeah.

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Yeah, it's  spring in Minnesota. Doesn't know what it's doing.  Oh,  it's coming. It's all going to be okay. Our rhubarb is leafing. Our tree line is leafing. My peonies are  up. They haven't budded yet. Thank God, because they'd be  useless if they had, because the snow would have killed them. We have um tulips up with buds on them. They haven't opened yet. um

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The tree has not bloomed yet. The apple trees have not bloomed yet. So that's good news too. We have about  500 cloves of garlic planted that are, I think like eight inches tall already. Wow. I know I'm so excited. We started,  I think in 2023, we planted 80 cloves from a neighbor  and the plan was to just  multiply it, you know, cause garlic is

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It's one of those things that if you plant one, then you usually get five to eight cloves back at the end of the season. Oh yeah. And so started with 80 and then replanted everything. And now we've got 500. So when we harvest, we should have 3000 or 4000 cloves to plant again at the end of this year. I am so jealous because we can't grow garlic here to save our lives. The dirt's too heavy, too black. You have more of a clay soil.

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Yes.  Yes, we do. That sucks. Garlic likes  soft soil, kind of a loamy almost so that it has room to expand. Yeah, I asked my husband if we should just put in a raised bed and, you know, make the soil what the garlic would like. And he said, yeah, we could do that. And we haven't done it yet.  It's easy to to get all of the dreams together.

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But then once it actually comes to putting the supplies together, that's a different story. Well, we're just not sure that we need to grow garlic because lots of people grow garlic in Minnesota.  And he really loves growing tomatoes, so he puts all his focus on tomatoes.

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I think  it was 2024 that  we did a ton of tomatoes  and I still have some in the freezer. We just,  we don't need a ton of them. And some other family in Wasika actually grows a greenhouse load of them. So they  cover us for that and we're going to stick with garlic, I think. It's lot of fun. Yeah. And garlic is like God's gift to cooking. So keep growing garlic, please.

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Yes, absolutely. We're hoping to put it in the farm stand if we get any  smaller heads that aren't suitable for planting at the end of this year. Yes. So we kind of jumped the gun here.  How about you tell me a little bit about yourself and how you came to be farming and what you do? Right. So we  just kind of started up the farm and the farm page this year, but I do have  a rural

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background and grew up out in the country.  Always had chickens when I was younger, but never really  cattle or  any other types of poultry or pork. ah So we're just really getting into it again, after a  few years hiatus  and  jumping in with both feet, you know, starting  chickens again, I have about 125 egg laying chickens.

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Very nice.  And I have  six New Zealand doe rabbits  and one buck. And we're hoping to get some quail eggs in the incubator soon, along with  hopefully doing cut flowers for the farm stand  and lots of vegetables.  I love a big garden and I do a lot of canning myself. And so most of it's for my own shelves. But I'm hoping to get my cottage license here soon and I'll be able to sell  my canned goods.

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Yes, do that. Cause I think it's still free. Oh yeah. To get the cottage license. It's  I've from  the women around me that have applied and gotten approved. said that the process is fairly easy.  It's super easy. have to renew mine and basically the website has a bunch of information you read through it. And then there's a  quiz. It's like 10 questions and you have to get seven or eight correct. Right.

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I mean, it almost sounds too easy. Anybody could do it, but maybe that's the point. Yes. Yes. And the thing is, if you don't love to cook, you're not going to bother to get your cottage registration. So I think it's fine. But yes, we we have a farm stand on our place too. And my intention over the next month or so is to start cooking some start cooking, start baking some cookies and get them packaged up and out there because

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People are stopping in for eggs anyway. And if there's like a little box of six cookies out there for eight bucks, maybe they'll buy them. Who knows? Oh yeah. I'm pretty terrible at the impulse buys. And so that would get me a hundred percent. Yes. And my cookies are way better than store-bought cookies. I promise. That rings true for, I think, at least 99 % of farm goods.

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Why buy it in the store when your neighbor can make it and you can barter for it or...  And it doesn't have preservatives in it. You're right. Exactly. Five ingredients compared to a paragraph. Yes. And thank God for that because the labels would be impossible to create. So  our neighbor, um the lady that I do the farm stand with, her name is Summer and her cottage name is Summer Flowers. It's kind of a play on words.

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Cute. so she does all of the cottage baking and she is incredible at it. I mean, she's she truly has a gift. I'm looking at uh jalapeno cheddar and cinnamon raisin loaves right now that I snagged  from the weekend.  And so she does a lot of  the cottage baking and I am going to supply cut flowers, fresh produce  and farm fresh eggs at the farm stand. So it's kind of a

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oh co-operation with the farm stand. But it's been a lot of fun so far. We've only been open, I think, three weekends now on Saturdays and Sundays.  Nice. So do you get a lot of traffic in there? Yes. They  have a gorgeous property and  it's a little brick building that I think used to be like a pump house or a garden shed or something, but  it was  repurposed  beautifully into what the farm stand is now.

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but lots of, uh, not nitpicking, but we'll change little things about it as the season goes. Yes. You'll have to re revamp it as the season goes. Right. Fresh pangy,  um, some decorations. I've saved seeds from when I grew  marigolds  last year and I have like a gallon bag full of marigold seeds that I just plan on kind of sprinkling everywhere.  That'll be really pretty.

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Marigolds are great for  chicken eggs too.  I don't know the exact science behind it, but they're supposed to lower the cholesterol  in chicken eggs, along with making the yolks darker. If the chickens eat the blooms? Both flowers  and the greenery on the plant too, I believe.  Cool. I didn't know that. I will have to let my husband know that. That would be really cool to plant some marigolds for them. Right.  I inherited a

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gallon bag of expired seeds from my mom  and was just kind of chaos planting everything because why not? You know, if it grows, it grows and I can separate it and put it where it belongs or it doesn't grow and becomes fertilizer. You know, one way or the other, it'll do okay.  But so I planted like eight packets worth of marigold seeds in like a two by two square.

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in one of my planting boxes and all of them germinated and it just became this super dense marigold bush that got like three feet tall.  bet it was gorgeous. Oh, you could smell it from  a mile away. It was great. But so I saved all the seeds from that and I'll plant them around our chicken pasture this year. Your chickens are going to love you.  I really hope so. Yeah. ah

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So  because we're talking  about the farm stand thing, I have a question for you. Do you know what scones are? S-C-O-N-E-S? Yes.  Summer makes  like blueberry white chocolate chip scones that are to die for. Okay. Are they like the ones at the grocery store that are really flat and dense or are they the ones that are fluffy? Oh, they're fluffy. They're so nice. Okay.

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The reason I ask is because one of things I'm thinking about baking and putting in the farm stand is scones. Because I make a really flaky, fluffy scone. And I'm not sure that people will even know what they are because the only scones I've seen for sale in Minnesota  are the ones at the grocery store that are flat and dense.

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Well, if your farm stand has a decent, I mean, you are on Facebook for the farm stand, right? Yes. I would just post them on Facebook first to gauge interest, maybe. I love those videos where people like take their sourdough loaf and split it in half and then like slowly open it to show the crumb. And squish it so it crackles. Yes, you could do that with the scones to show that they're not.

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dense kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I was so flabbergasted when I, when I bought scones at the store the first time I was like, these are terrible.  same thing has been going for the  sourdough English muffins. The ones that I just bought at Aldi like a month ago are  so small and so sad and so thin.

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And the ones that I am looking at in front of me are like an inch thick and they're fluffy. You'll, you'll never go back once you have one. Yes. And that's the other thing I wanted to, I wanted to bring up since we're talking about this particular subject,  everybody has their own magic when they cook. And if you're, if you're a good cook, that magic can't help, but be infused into the food.  So.

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One person can make a scone and another person can make a scone  and they can be  absolutely wonderful and delicious,  but they're going to be different because two different people made them. I've always kind of wondered if different sourdough bakers, if their starters have like a different. I don't know, flavor or like base to them.  I don't think so. I think what's different, I think it's just water and flour.

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I mean, it could be different kind of flour, obviously, but it's water and flour. What it is that every home has a different environment. What's in the air? Oh, interesting. And so that's what makes it different. But I also think that it's how the person actually makes whatever they're making out of the starter, how they make the bread or the pizza dough or whatever. Right. I know I've followed a recipe before where if you don't mix all the dry ingredients before you

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add the wet ingredients, then that can change the entire outcome. Yeah, chemistry is amazing.

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Chemistry is a pain in the butt, but it's also amazing. Right. It wasn't my forte in high school. I'll admit that. Yeah, I was okay with chemistry and biology. Physics was the one that kicked my butt. I don't think I ever made it to physics. I really loved uh reading, literature, English,  writing. I loved all that stuff. Yeah, that was more my thing. I'm good at math. I just don't enjoy it at all. And physics is a lot of math.

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So that's probably why physics was very hard for me. Algebra was easy.  was,  I think geometry is what sucked. Once you get into like the cosine and tangent and that kind of stuff, that's where it tripped me up a little bit. Yeah. And what's funny is as a homesteader or a farmer, we all tend to use geometry without even thinking about it.  Right. But it's because it's practically applied geometry.

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I know that every teacher that told me that I wouldn't have a calculator in real life was absolutely wrong. Yeah, funny how that worked out.  You're not always going to have a calculator a hundred years later. Oh, really? Right. I have one right here in my pocket.  And not only do I have that in the same device, I have a camera  and a video camera  and a way to access the answer to any question ever asked by any man ever.

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It's  terrible, but it is true. It's real handy though.  I do believe that thinking for yourself is important, but having answers easily available is also  so much more convenient. Yes, like why is my dog scratching at her ear? Oh, she might have ear mites. What can I do about ear mites?  You can put olive oil in a Q-tip and put it inside of her ear and it will kill the ear mites.

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Right. That's $200 that I can save instead of taking her to the vet and... And it worked. Oh, right. It's... love... I consider myself a semi-crunchy type person. Like, I love the holistic approach to bumps and scrapes and bruises, but I'll still go and get myself a nice coffee kind of thing. Oh, yes. Absolutely. They will pry my coffee from my cold dead hands.

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They'll do their best at least. Yeah, I don't know. My spirit might come back into my body because I'll be really angry. I don't know. I'm just being silly. So you have chickens. What else do you have? Right. So we raise New Zealand rabbits, mainly for meat. I have a couple of pelts in the feet and the heads in my freezer. I am a sucker for oddities, curiosities, that kind of thing.

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And so that world is in my wheelhouse as well. I sell any rabbits that don't make it or die of natural causes and some chicken eggs to the save a fox rescue out of Millersburg.

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So they take some of the rabbit products. Otherwise, we're trying to market rabbit meat for human consumption as well. yes, definitely. Rabbit is really yummy. Millersburg, where is that? Oh, it would be north of Faribault, think like 15 miles or so. And then it's west of I've 35. And they are what?

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What's the place that you're? It's called Save a Fox  and it's all one word. Yeah. They're pretty popular on Facebook, I think. They have a couple of different Facebook pages, though, but they're great. They rescue foxes from fur farms and let them live their happy little fox lives in a contained environment.

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I'm going to have to look them up and see if they will chat with me because I like, I like talking to people that are sort of adjacent to what I talk about. Yeah. I, I don't know if they would be open to it or not, but  they've, I think they're above a million followers on Facebook. Wow.  I know they're awesome too.  The people that work with Fox's  have a lot of patients, I think. Yes. And it's interesting because I was brought up being told that

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that wild animals are wild animals and that you don't really get to be anywhere near friends with them. But there is a uh fox rescue that I do follow it. I don't think it's the one you're talking about though. I think it's another one.  And  they have foxes that they rescued that literally will eat out of their hands and sit in their laps.  right. Yes. The foxes  at ah that rescue,  they...

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are like nine generations  bred out of the out of  a wild habitat. So they're completely they're like a cat and a dog's body, I think is how they refer to them. Yeah. Yep. It's just it's so funny because like I saw on Facebook,  I find everybody I talk to on Facebook. So I spent a lot of time on Facebook. I shouldn't, but I do.  And there was a guy that rescued a coyote.

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It had gotten hit by a car and it was, it was really hurt and took it to the vet. The vet got it fixed up and then the guy took care of it while it was in recovery.  The coyote comes back all the time to visit the guy. He let him go. The guy let the coyote go wild and the coyote comes back to see him all the time. That's really sweet. We've, it's, been a, I've, I've loved working with animals  since

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I was younger, maybe it started with a chicken obsession, but who knows? But I would love to in the near future, if not, maybe like a five-year plan or something, but I would love to have a wildlife rescue.

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uh I would love for you to have a wildlife rescue too so I can come visit.  Right. ah A lot of times in the spring people disturb like cottontail nests or a baby bird falls out of the tree or a possum gets hit on the highway kind of thing. I just really enjoy that  rehabilitation work.

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Yes. And if you do it, I hope you get to rehabilitate baby raccoons because we had some visit last spring and oh my God, they were cute. They, their little hands just kill me.  They're little squeaks. The noises they make.  I know they're the best. I love little raccoons. That's a lot of,  um, roadkill happens in the spring because all these animals are trying to feed their young right now. So it's  in the spring, it's  usually a good time to take your

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speed down five, 10 miles an hour or so on the highways because everything's crossing. Yes. And sometimes you hit people's barn cats and they die. And that's really hard on us who own the barn cats. Yeah. For Fairbolt has a really heavy, uh,  feral cat population as well.  There's,  um, the Fox rescue in Millersburg and Fairbolt, there is furball farms. Yes.  I actually did a, an article about them for, um,

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River Valley Woman Magazine a few years back. They're so much fun. They have a pretty huge following around here. They're kind of like a local  celebrity type thing. But a lot of my family has gone to just go hang out with the cats. They have events where you can just go in and hang out and. Yes, and if you love cats, you will love being there because there are cats  everywhere.

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I love cats. My husband is more of a loves kittens,  not the adult cats. Yes.  So we do have two of our own along with our livestock guardian dog. She's a great Pyrenees. Her name's Mika. Nice.  But then the two cats are kind of indoor outdoor. If  it's a thunderstorm, they get to come hide out in the garage. But typically they like spending their days outside.

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So I have a question. your cats like your dog?  They don't snuggle, but they respect each other's space.  Okay. The reason I ask is our barn cats  love our dog. Our dog is an Australian shepherd and she's only about 36 pounds. And we just got three new kittens. They were like 16 to 20 weeks old when we got them last summer.

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They wanted nothing to do with Maggie at first. They wanted nothing to do with anybody at first. And now in the morning they come running up when we let her outside and  they just rub up against her and purr. And I'm like, didn't take you guys very long to be friends, did it? Right. You have very well tempered cats and the dog, I think. Well,

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Maggie would have been a great mama dog, but we got her spayed when she was six months old because puppies was not on the bucket list.  Right. We had a,  German shepherd just passed in January and he was the same way. I really wish we hadn't gotten him neutered because his temperament was  ideal. Yup. But  you can't, you can't know.  And also there are so  many.

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animals in the world that are in shelters that don't have a home and I was just like I don't want her to get pregnant by oh geez a dog that's too big and she ends up dying because the puppies are too big right she's small dog and There was no guarantee we could find homes for puppies. So I was just like the smartest thing is to Make her not a mama permanently and it's sad

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But it was probably the smartest thing we did. Right.  I would love to someday go to a shelter and adopt like who's who's been there the longest or the senior dog that got surrendered or something like that. I would love to give  somebody's pet uh a good ending to their life. Yes. Oh, I love that.  I love that. And actually, that's probably what we'll end up doing when Maggie is no longer with us. We probably will never get a puppy.

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again because my husband and I are both 56 and puppy energy is a lot and I can't imagine going through it in our 60s. So we'll probably just get  a dog that is a dog, not a puppy. We still try to get out and travel as much as we can. We also have two small children here in our homestead, farmstead, whatever you want to call it. um But they're two years and six months.  so young children and the farm makes travel.

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pretty difficult, but someday we'd like to  be able to take a month off in the winter and go to Mexico or something. But having too much going on and  needing to find someone to watch  everything, you know, and be able to learn feeding schedules and all that is  such a challenge.  It is. And we're going through that too, because it's just my husband and I.  So

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If we want to go somewhere,  we really can't because  I don't know what you know about Australian Shepherds, but they are very, very close with their people, but not really close with anybody else. Oh, so she wouldn't do well with like a doggy hotel type thing.  No,  no, she would not. I suspect she probably would go on a hunger strike. And she also is scared to death of people, strangers.

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So even if we could take her with us, all she would do the whole time we were not home, if she was with us, is bark. So  we have the joy of having a wonderful dog, but we also have the pain of knowing that it's gonna be a problem if we actually wanna go somewhere. Right? It's like a, kinda like a toddler in that respect. Yes, exactly.

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And honestly, it is a lot like a toddler. husband took her out and  threw the frisbee for her last night.  And I got up at midnight to go potty and she was snoring in her crate in her crate. I thought you were going to say crib.  Yeah, almost.  I was going to say kennel and I'm like, it's not really a kennel. It's a crate, but she was snoring and I was like, wow, he must have run her  hard.  That's so funny. Yeah. But anyway, um,

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So you said chickens, you said rabbits. Do you have other animals or is that it for now? For now, that's it. We have done pigs in the past, but  as  typical farm life goes, we found ah things that needed to be stored in the shed that the pigs were kept in. So it turned from livestock back into storage and  we just haven't really had the time.

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with two small children to start pigs up again. I would like to start quails soon. I'm hoping my incubator has sat empty for about a week and I'm starting to get the itch to hatch eggs again.

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Yep.  It's so funny because quail is very much on the radar here and it keeps coming up in these conversations with you guys. uh We're thinking about it. We're about 50 % sold on the idea of getting quail. I just found a little hutch on Facebook Marketplace  and so I think that I would keep quailing that. We have thought about doing other poultry, know, throwing some turkeys or something in with the chickens.

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Getting turkey eggs or turkey poults is  they're so expensive. It's insane. I think I saw a sign in Tractor Supply that was like $18.99 for one turkey pulled.  Really? Yeah, like wildly expensive  and nobody around me has any hatching eggs available. So are  chicken chicks expensive this year too? Like five or six bucks a piece? Well, I mean, it depends on if you want

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barnyard mix or if you want some sort of purebred specialty type. So I ordered from Hoover's Hatchery for our egg layers that I, oh, I think they were Valentine's Day chicks. So they're, I don't know how many weeks old that would make them. They're about to start laying next month. So we got 70 there and those were.

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between four to six dollars a piece, because I went with the more budget-friendly breeds. But I see a lot of people hatching ah like cream leg bars, which do the blue eggs or  the black copper morans, which give you the dark chocolate eggs.  Those can be like nine to fifteen dollars a check if you're getting them from purebredlines. I swear, just like two years ago,

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The not fancy chicks were only like a buck and a half a piece.  I would love to know where you saw those prices. It might have been three or four years ago, but it wasn't that long ago that they weren't five to six dollars a piece.  Right. I know that backyard chicken keeping has become wildly popular, especially after the pandemic. think a lot of people turned to  wanting to be more self-sufficient ah after you couldn't find toilet paper at Walmart.

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made a lot of people panic on uh the whole food supply in America.  It absolutely did. That's why so many people moved out of the towns and cities they were in out into the country. And I'm not going to like throw any shade about that because I think that if you can do it, you should. Right. Absolutely.  I fully support anybody that wants to  commit to  a lifestyle in the country. Yeah.

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Yeah, I do too. And it's not for everybody. There are lots of people who really want to live  in  an area where there are people around. I am not one of them. I really, really value being  not surrounded by people anymore. Let's put it that way.  Right. I grew up 20 minutes from  the nearest  town. And so going into town to the grocery store with my mom was always a trip.

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You know, was preparation to get out of the house took 20 minutes in itself, 20 minutes to drive to the grocery store and then 20 minutes back home. Yeah, it was like half the day. But I always would go to sleepovers at a friend's house and not be able to sleep because of the headlights bouncing off the walls at night. It's like, how can you how can you sleep like this? There's so much going on outside. Like, aren't you worried about

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people looking in your windows or, you why is your neighbor's window pointing at your kitchen? Uh huh. That's, it's just the strangest concept to me being stacked on top of other people like that. Yes. And it's part of the reason that we decided to move five and a half years ago. Well, actually almost six years ago,  we moved in here on August  7th  of 2020. Wow. You have a very good memory. Well,

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Part of the reason I remember it is because I spent the first night I spent here was August 3rd into the 4th because we, had to be here because they were going to hook up the internet and bring a stove because this place didn't have a cook stove when we bought it. So I had to be here on August 4th in the morning and I vividly remember going to sleep on the couch downstairs that we had moved in. So I had a place to sleep.

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And I couldn't sleep. I was just so excited to be spending the first night here. And my husband was actually at the old house because he had to work and it was much closer for him to stay where we were living before to drive to work.  And we hadn't moved clothes down here yet. And I could not sleep because I was so excited and because it was so  quiet.

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That's like the night before a field trip when you're a kid that you're just jittering in bed. so excited. Your backpack's ready. Your clothes are set out. Yeah. And I've told the story a billion times, but I'll tell it again because it's one of my favorites. I made sure to set the alarm on my phone for before sunrise because the window over the kitchen sink faces east. And I really wanted to see the first sunrise out over the field. Oh, that's so exciting.

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I think I slept an hour the first night I stayed here  and I was definitely awake for sunrise and it was worth every second of it.  I hope you took a picture or something that would be a framed photo.  I have a picture  of looking at the window so it's not like through the window at the sunrise it's just the window and you can see the sunrise outside so it's not

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It's not necessarily focused on the sunrise. It's focused on my cute little kitchen window over the sink. But either way,  just, feel like certain people are city people and they always will be. And that's where they're comfortable and they love it. And there are certain people who are not and that's where they're comfortable and they love it. I think that  anything worth having you have to work for.  so convenience,

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kind of  kills part of that.

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Yes,  I agree.  do. However, I am a sucker for a good burger and I don't mean the ones we make here at home. So I'm real happy that one of the best dive bars in Minnesota is in Lesour. What is it called?  It's called the Bar and Grill. That's very vague.  Yes, it's very original. It's a bar and a grill and they make a really, really good burger. But the best thing they make is homemade onion rings.

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battered onion rings. Oh, I put onions and mushrooms and almost everything I make. Uh huh. So when we're going to celebrate something, we we go grab a burger and really good onion rings at the bar and grill. That's awesome. I think there was just a do you know where Lonsdale is? I do. The Shields Lake cheesecake was just on the news.

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And I've never heard of them. Really? Oh my gosh, they're it's the best cheesecake you'll ever have in your life. Is it a it a bakery? It's they only sell cheesecake. OK, so so is it like a store? Yes, they have a storefront in  Lonsdale. I think that the city of Fairbolt put up too much of a fuss about regulations, and so they intended to  open their storefront in Fairbolt, but

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opted for Lonsdale instead. They're the type of place that you have to get there and wait in line because they sell out so quickly. is a that's a terrible problem to have. Boy, I don't know. It's I they it was worth I got there early one day and didn't have to wait in line for my cheesecake. But it is it is a hefty slice that you get.

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and they do all sorts of different flavors and concoctions. They supply weddings. Huh? I might have to go check that out. I would say it's worth it. Yeah, because I'm kind of a real sucker for cheesecake, which is why I only eat it about once every five years, because otherwise I would eat it every day. Okay, awesome. Well, I try to keep this half an hour. We're at almost 37 minutes. So.

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I am going to cut you loose, but before we go, where can people find you? So Bauer Family Farms is  currently only on Facebook. Bauer is spelled B-A-U-E-R. That is so far our only socials. We're getting connected to a couple of farm stand websites  and  the name is spelled the same in all those spots.  Okay. Hopefully  someday I'll connect to Instagram or TikTok, but for now it's just Facebook.

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That's good enough. It's a place where people can find you online, which means that I can link to it for you in the show notes. All right, Leah, this was really fun. Thank you for your time. As always, people can find me at atinyhomesteadpodcast.com. I hope you have a great rest of your day. Thank you. You too. See you later.