Cedarmore Farm CSA: Strawberries Are Here!

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Strawberries Are Here!

Andy is so excited (and so is Justin, the driver) about having strawberries in our boxes this week! Andy was just sure they wouldn't be ready until next week. He is not complaining and neither am I. When he looked back at his records from last year, the strawberries were even two weeks earlier then now.

This week we have a large head of Chinese cabbage and a head of lettuce. Some of the boxes have a small bunch of asparagus and a few zucchini. If your box didn't have these you will most likely be getting some next week. Andy tries extremely hard to even things out the best he can.

Please Andy writes the newsletter a few days before the boxes are packed. So he is really trying to predict what we will be getting. That hand written newsletter is then hand delivered to Rue and Susan. They type it us and print it for Andy and then they hand deliver it back to Andy and Lizzie so they can put one in every CSA box. It is not as easy as it might sound.

We love the egg share!

This weeks baked good is a cherry pie!

Zucchini relish is something new to me. I guess I will be trying it on just about everything.

FYI...One of the neighboring farmers who also grows using the same organic methods as Cedarmore Farm, have some extra strawberries. If you would like to order some for next week, please email the farm at cedarmorefarm@tdisp.com with your order. They are $4.00 per quart or $3.50 a quart if you order 10 or more. On extra orders like this they will keep a tab on what is ordered and then bill you at the end of the month.

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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.