Cedarmore Farm CSA: A Little Late

Sunday, July 20, 2014

A Little Late

We were on vacation for the delivery of the first box of the Summer Share. Looks like a great box of goodness. This one just happened to be left on the front porch. Someone forgot to pick up. But no worries I have been able to save everything and this box from last week will go out with the box this week.

The Andy's are so excited to be able to provide good food to all the newcomers to the Summer Shares of the CSA. We hope that you newcomers will enjoy the food as well as the experience.

Crops are looking really good. The sweet corn and cantaloupes are both coming soon. Unfortunately due to the winter weather, the blackberries are not going to be near the crop that they were last year. The extra cold weather really did a number on them.

Onions are being harvested now and they are trying a new way to store them. Andy is always looking for the most affective way to farm. He will be trying a new way to store them this year. In years past the onions would be pulled up out of the ground and left in the fields to dry for a few days. Then they were placed in mesh bags and hung in the shed. But Andy noticed that a lot of them were going bad. This year they are making racks to put them in so they will have no onions laying on and crowding out others. We will have to wait and see if this is a good idea or not.

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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.