Some Good Okra This Week

The report from the farm is that tall the onions have been harvested for this year.  They have all been put in mesh bags and hung in the shed to dry.  theses should keep until the end of the season.  We should be able to find them in our boxes for awhile.  I guess this must be a pretty big job because Andy says that he is glad that one job is over because it is the most challenging one.

There are extra canning tomatoes available as an extra product if you need some to can.  Email the farm at cedarmorefarm@tdisp.com and Rue will make sure that Andy gets your order.  They will be delivered with your next box.  These are perfectly good tomatoes...they just don't look as good as the ones we get in our  boxes.  They may have a few nicks in them or an insect bite here or there.  They are .50 per pound.

Andy keeps educating us on the ways of Amish organic farming. The animals on the farm all have jobs.  Most of the year the cows and horses are out in the grass in the field. During the winter months Andy and Lizzie bring them into the barn and bed them down n the straw.  Before they put down a new layer of bedding they will usually sprinkle some corn in.  In the summer months when the cows and horses are out in the pasture the pigs them get some time in the barn.  The pigs will then root thru the straw looking for the corn.  The nice bedding had since been composted into rich compost.  This compost is then spread on the land that is in cover corps or in the fall after all the produce is gone.  This makes great fertilizer for the produce for the next year.