Cedarmore Farm CSA: Fluffy Has A Friend

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Fluffy Has A Friend

Anna is going to start raising rabbits to sell to make a little money. So I drove to my favorite rabbit pick up spot (Jamie Kinner's in Batavia) and picked up a male brown mini Rex. Just so happens that the Kinner's use to own a coffee shop in Batavia that was a CSA dropoff. And Adam, Andy's brother dresses chickens for the Kinner's. And Jamie went to school with my next door neighbor. Very small world around here. I met Jamie thru FreeCycle about a year ago.

Fluffy didn't come out to meet Chocolate Drop. This is home sweet home for the rabbits and all the little bunnies to come...a reused, recycled, repurposed chicken coop and run. I love that. And an added bonus, Sem, the watch dog.

Anna from this day forward will be known as my Cedarmore Blogger Assistant. She suggested that we go out in the yard and take some pictures of all of her growing things. These are her knockout roses.

She suggested a close up. And after every shot she has to okay the pics.

Her sad sunflowers.

The birds are enjoying them. So next year I am going to plant a row of sunflowers over by the chicken coop. She got me hooked.

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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.