Cedarmore Farm CSA: Around The House

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Around The House

The work never stops inside or outside around the farm. Lizzie was really busy today with all sorts of tasks...

Today she started making two new coats for the boys...for next winter! Her pattern was nothing more that a few pieces of butcher paper cut into the four main pieces...no cut here, sew here lines, no darts, no indication lines of where the hooks and eyes were to go. When I asked her how long it would take to make she said that it all depended on what else she had to do, so a few weeks. She also said that her sister Kate could make them in a week. The boys were excited.

While standing there talking she mixed up some bread dough...no recipe just a regular coffee cup as a measuring cup. I went outside with Andy and when I came back in this is what I saw! Going to get that recipe!

I always ask what's new on the farm because there is always something they have been doing to make the farm a little easier to run. So today the whole bunch took me back into the little back room...can't remember what Lizzie calls it...and showed me the new sink with RUNNING WATER.

The red pump Andy got at auction and it is rain water used for doing dishes and things like that. The sink I think someone gave them. So now they have running water. It comes from the well, gravity pulls it down the hill and into the sink. The water is the best water you have ever tasted! Lizzie said it will be wonderful not to have to fill buckets of water. Their drinking water use to be stored in an orange cooler like football teams have on the sidelines.

If anyone reading this blog knows of someone or somewhere that we can get a metal two sided sink please let me know. We have been looking for one for the farm to use when washing vegetables for the CSA boxes.

The Martins haven't returned yet but I saw the first bluebird. Andy thought it was a robin because it was so fat. Hey, this English (half Amish) girl knows her birds! He didn't believe me when I said it was a blue bird so I had to show him the picture on the camera. He just smiled.

I love the farm and how it makes me think about the things I do and say. I appreciate the things I have that make my life easier. But then I realize maybe I don't need so much stuff. A simpler life...

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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.