Cedarmore Farm CSA: Pre CSA Start Visit

Monday, May 9, 2016

Pre CSA Start Visit

I was able to make a pre-CSA visit to the farm on Saturday. When I pull around the road where you first see the fields I saw Andy, John and Anna's 10-year-old son driving these two huge horses through the field.

These horses are huge! And I worry about our 14-year-old mowing the grass without someone watching.

always love seeing Amish laundry (any laundry for that matter) flapping happily in the wind.

Laundry everywhere you see.

The cow had a calf! He is checking out the 'eating' chickens.

Andy was plowing the field to get out all the dirt clods.

Meet Freda (I named her)

And surprise...she has bunnies! Which they had no idea they were getting. Andy is pretty excited about it too. I am getting a white one when they are old enough.

They don't even have their eyes opened yet.

Now I have to tell on myself...how dumb can an English woman be? We have the same rabbit feeders hanging on the inside of the cages. They are a pain. The rabbits knock them off all the time. Andy looked at me like I was crazy when I got excited about finally seeing the correct way to put te feeder on the cage. I can straight home and fixed Binker up with the correct...Amish told...way to hang the rabbit feeder. Oh, the many things I have learned on the farm!

I think this might just be my favorite picture of all. It is as close as I will ever get to having a picture of my Amish friends. A Little child's footprint in the dirt. Precious to me.

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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.