Cedarmore Farm CSA: Fall Is Sneaking In

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Fall Is Sneaking In

Is anyone else loving the change in the weather? The hot days of summer are fading away and the cooler fall weather is slowly taking over. The little bit of rain that the farm got put a little moisture in the ground, just not nearly enough. They are hoping for a few more rains like the last few that they have had in hopes that things will be going to green back up.

Again with the weather is it so hard to predict what produce will be coming in our boxes. The plan this week is for some type of squash to be in our boxes...spaghetti, acorn or butternut.. This should be the first week of the squashes. The beans and tomatoes will likely slow down, but then again there is another patch of beans that might be coming on in a few weeks...again it is a weather thing. There are still plenty of onions, potatoes and garlic. Most of that will be stored to use this fall.

A variety of tomatoes and the purple peppers were a surprise.

This week there will be a survey in your boxes. Please take the time to fill it out and send it back. This is one forms of feedback that help Andy and Lizzie get a feel for what we like and don't like...and as members of the CSA, what we would like them to consider doing.

Andy and Lizzie are trying out some new farming techniques this year on the farm. And he wants us to know that sometimes he has mixed feeling about some of these new ways. Part of him wants to stick to the ways that he knows,like using lime and compost. He is not to keen on all the hub-bub of checking all the this and that is in the plants. The other part of him see some of the advantages in some of the new techniques. He has finally come to the conclusion that by hanging on the the old, tried and true proven ways and combining them with some of the newer ways might be the best of both worlds. In other words I think he is saying that Cedarmore Farm will continue to use cover crops, lime, and compost and what they are already doing. Then they will still be able to fine tune things by checking the Brix and the plant sap PH and the missing minerals accordingly.

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In The Beginning

Andy and Lizzie have known each other since they were very small. Growing up in an Amish community there are plenty of opportunities to play and work together. They grew up in the same church but went to different schools. Several years ago they moved from Wayne County, OH to right outside Hillsboro, OH and established Cedarmore Farm. The farm got it's name very simply...in Wayne County there were very few cedar or sycamore trees . When Andy and Lizzie got here, they noticed an abundance of cedar and sycamore trees on the land. So they just merged the two names and Cedarmore Farm was born. They have worked very hard in the few years that they have been farming the land. Andy and Lizzie are in the process of building their house and hopefully they will be able to move into the upstairs this spring. We can only see good things in their future farming experiences. And we wish them well.

Not only is Cedarmore growing fruits and vegetables. The Andy's have a growing family. They have four of the most precious children! Anna, who is excited about going to school this fall. Dennis who follows Andy around like his shadow. Moses who is doing well after a little run-in with the pigs. And Lovina who is the youngest at 9 months.

Then there is a new season on the farm. In the winter (Jan 2015), the Andy's packed up and moved to MO leaving the CSA in the most capable hands of John and Anna (Anna is Andy's twin sister) Zook and there 7 children. They changed the name of their farm to Cedarmore Farm so we English wouldn't be too confused. So the work has begun to provide lush healthy vegetables for the CSA season 2015 which begins in May.