Cedarmore Farm CSA: Made A Visit To The Farm

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Made A Visit To The Farm

Got to spend a little time on the farm on Saturday. John was out of town so i got to play with the kids and visit and have some girl talk with Anna. While Anna was feeding the baby the kids took me around the farm and showed me what was new and talked to me about how the boxes are packed.

The new Packing Barn is finished and in working order. They are so excited about it. There are still plans to add a shop for John and insulate it and add a stove for heat. It is really nice. The kids were showing me everything in it including opening the barns doors to explain how the truck is loaded for the boys that are hired to drive to all the drop off spots.

The vegetable washer. And the porch adds as a place to hang clothes to dry. I got a blow by blow in Pennsylvania Dutch as to how it works from Andy, John and Anna's oldest son. It's a really good thing that I already knew what it was!

Drying tables. Right now they are filled with onions.

Sometimes they use the baby scales to weight vegetables if someone orders a special order of a certain number of veggies.

This is a far cry from the space that they used in the basement of the house. It is at least twice as big as the area that Andy, Lizzie, and their workers has at the old Cedarmore location.

We went out into the fields and checked out the greenhouses. I even got a tour of the barn and met all the animals, new and old. I will save all that for a few other blogs later in the season.

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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.