Wilson's Cedar Point Farm

We are currently taking CSA memberships for the 2011 growing season.  This could be a nice holiday gift for someone who enjoys fresh fruits and vegetables.

 Go to our website for more information.

If you like the first fruit of the season around here, I hope you will come by to visit us on the farm or at the Somerset Farmers' Market at the Mall.   One variety of our strawberries is blooming right now, but it only accounts for a small percent of our planting.  We will probably pick these ourselves.  Main season berries will be in around May 10-15.

As we've mentioned before, CSA shares are offered this year at our farm.  You can get more information on this on our website at www.wilsonscedarpointfarm.com.   We are trying to keep the website relevant and up-to-date.  Now that's easy.  Later on during the season, that'll be harder and harder to do, but we're going to try.

 Thanks for stopping by!

We are digging out from under about 6 inches of snow, but all we can see is the light at the end of the tunnel -- namely spring!

We have a new website -- finally -- it can be found at Wilson's Cedar Point Farm.  Our site is pretty rudimentary, but most of our information is there.  Hope you'll bookmark it and come back to see updates from our farm.

In 2010, we are offering CSA shares.  Go to our website for more information on that.

The CSA concept is something we are ready to dive into for the 2010 season.  However, we have not worked out the details of how long our season will be or what the pricing will be.  We are working on getting a stand-alone website up and running as well.  

This is a fairly major change in our marketing so please bear with us as we work out the details.

In the meantime, please email us if you are interested and we'll be sure to get the information to you.

It's been a rough summer as far as we're concerned -- plenty of rain, really too much rain.  And it's been cool and cloudy.  Not 'normal', whatever that really means.

We're waiting, not too patiently, for our 2nd crop of GOOD sweetcorn to come in.  We hope we'll have something although the corn is having to compete with the johnsongrass.  No doubt, the johnsongrass will win, but hopefully some ears of corn will develop before it throws in the towel.

 Come visit us soon!  We're open every day this summer!

We are happy to say that today, July 10, our first sweetcorn finally came in.  It is a bicolor, supersweet variety that will knock your tastebuds for a loop!  We got an ear or 2 of this variety last year and couldn't believe how good it was.  Unfortunately, with all the rain this season, we didn't get but 3 plantings of this out, so get you some ears while it's in.

There's nothing like the first sweetcorn of the season!  Thanks to everyone who has come by the farm or the Somerset Farmers Market!

The on-farm market will open on Friday, July 3.  We'll be open daily from 8am til 7pm Monday through Saturday and on Sunday from 12pm til 6pm.  On our opening weekend, we should have ripe tomatoes, sweet corn, beans, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, squash, white and red potatoes, cherry/grape tomatoes, eggplant,and okra.  We'll try to have some local plums and peaches from a neighbor of ours as well.  Blackberries are just beginning to ripen.

Yesterday, I picked 3 red tomatoes.  The first of the season.  That usually means that in a week or so (depending on the weather) we'll be up to our armpits in tomatoes.  That's a very good thing.

 We are opening our on-farm market on Friday, July 3rd.  Follow the signs and you'll make it to us.  We'll have tomatoes, potatoes, sweet corn, white half runners, green peppers, fingerling potatoes, garlic, and blackberries (a little later) and maybe even some purple and yellow plums from some farming friends down the road from us.

 Hope you'll stop by and taste summer!

Well, we've made it through one busy strawberry season.  We thank everyone who has found us on LocalHarvest, the radio, or just our sign by the road and have taken the time to come out and get some of our berries.

On Saturday June 6, you can find our berries at the Somerset Farmers' Market.  On Sunday June 7, you can find them at the Lexington Farmers' Market on Southland Drive.  This will be the last of our berries for 2009.

Appreciate everyone making this a successful strawberry season for us.  We will have them again in 2010!

We are up to our armpits in strawberries!  That's a good thing -- what we've been hoping for since September when we planted our strawberries.  Joel and I, and our niece are manning the stand pretty much 16 hours a day, every day.  We've met a lot of new people!

We appreciate everyone who has bought berries from us -- and we hope they were the best tasting berries you've eaten.

With last week's dreary, no-sunshine days, the strawberries are taking their own sweet time ripening up.  And with the rain, I'm afraid that the taste may seem a bit diluted.  It happens.  I sampled about 15-17 different cultivars of strawberries 4 or 5 years ago at UK's South Farm.  It had rained a LOT the week prior to me being there.  And the taste was just a bit flat.  These were not grown on plastic like ours are grown.  We really need some dry sunny days and our berries will be fine, I'm sure. 

We are looking forward to a great strawberry season in 2009.  If you come, we hope you have a great time and enjoy our berries.  Look for our signs along West Hwy 80 and on 837 South.

Several things to mention:

1.  Call before you come --we will close due to inclement weather.  A few sprinkles is NOT inclement weather

2.  Do not bring your pets -- if you do, they will have to stay in your vehicle.  I love dogs, cats,etc, but this step has to be taken for food safety reasons.

3.  Please respect the property you are on -- not only do we mean our property, but our neighbor's.

 4.  We love to have kids, but please watch them to make sure they don't walk on the plastic, trample the strawberry plants, or wander off.

5.  No smoking

6.  Please wash your hands at our handwashing station before picking.  Again, food safety reasons.

7.  Please pay for what you pick.

 Hope to see everyone in May picking strawberries!

Last night and tonight we've been up with our strawberries.  For our bigger patch we use heavy row covers to protect the fragile flowers from sub-freezing temperatures.  But on our other, smaller patch we are still using overhead irrigation -- and that takes babysitting the patch.   We have to make sure that all the sprinklers keep working and don't get frozen up. 

We usually take shifts so that each of us gets some sleep, although neither of us is dealing a full deck the next day.

Hope you can come out in May and taste our wonderful strawberries!

It is incredible how it seems like you wait, and wait, and wait for spring to come -- and then, its nearing actually has you anxious.  You have so much to do in so little time.  For example, we have nothing in our greenhouses now -- they have to be patched and put into some sort of order.  It hasn't gotten done due to work schedules.

So the cabbage plants will have to be bought this year, to my chagrin.  I like having control of what cultivars we want to grow.  

I have planted some onions in the basement.  They are up and looking pretty happy.  My garlic is looking a bit whipped by the winter weather but once the weather changes, it'll snap out of its lull.

We are looking forward to strawberry season -- the row covers will come off in the next week.  I'll post pictures of that later.

If you don't know what CSA stands for -- it's Community Supported Agriculture.  It's a subscription service, but instead of getting a magazine each week, you get a basket of food each week.  

Often, CSAs offer organic foods, but not necessarily.  Eggs, meats, fruits, vegetables, cut flowers, or other items might be part of your weekly basket. It's an interesting way to keep yourself fed.  It also teaches non-farming people what fruits or vegetables are in season.

My husband Joel and I are considering starting something like this.  We will be asking our customers if this might be something they'd like offered.