Eggs for sale!

       $2.00 a dozen

Right now, we are getting several dozen eggs a day! And we would love to sell them to you! So come get your FARM FRESH EGGS here at Hessee's Homegrown. Call, post, send an email, saddle your horse or send a dove! Just let us know and we can take care of ya!

                                             Email me at: hessees.homegrown@live.com

And so it begins!

Missouri winters the past couple of years have been utterly horrid! One can typically expect to find himself (or herself!) spending the majority of the chilly months, cooped up in doors and praying that an ice-covered branch doesn’t collapse on an unsuspecting house below.  But this last year, “status quo” was broken and even though the days were short, the weather was confusingly bearable; even for a Tennessee farm girl like me. I say all of this to say, that as a “new wife”, living in a “new little” house with lots of land and rich soil just beckoning to be planted in, I was more than eager for winter to end and spring to come. Strangely enough, January brought a few days of 70 degree weather; just enough to tease me into thinking spring was nearing. By the time March rolled around, I couldn’t wait any longer! Soon I was at ‘Lowes’ buying strawberry plants, squash, eggplants, cucumbers and an array of flowers in hopes of turning the once “bachelor pad” into a “his and hers” home.  After weeks of fighting the soil trying to plow up new ground for a garden, we finally finished our 20x30 plot!  As if that wasn’t a big enough item on my “honey-do list,” I also submitted a request for a chicken coop. Because I have an absolutely amazing husband, he went right to work; remodeling an old shed into a rather large chicken house. Buying my first batch of baby chicks was the next step. I researched online the best laying hens that I could afford and that would also yield a large amount of egg production. I settled on a verity of different breeds. I decided that I was going to purchase my chicks from Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon, Missouri. There, I purchased nearly 30 pullets (female chicks). I would recommend Cackle Hatchery every day of the week! They were amazing to us and provided wonderful “chick saving” advice. Fast forward five months later, and the eggs have started “rolling” in. May the adventure begin here at Hessee’s Homegrown Hatchery!