vegetables, kids

Schwab starts community-supported agriculture garden

BY AMY KYLLO STAFF WRITER

KENYON – Dumpster diving is just one of the many things that Sarah Schwab did last year to start her vegetable growing business.

Schwab owns and operates Desired Haven Farm near Kenyon with her husband

Andrew and 10 of their 12 children. They have three-fourths of an acre of vegetables planted which they sell through community-supported agriculture.

The Schwabs’ vegetable farm grew out of a desire to raise their family well. The Schwabs’ oldest daughter, Olivia, has special needs that prevent her from joining the workforce and the vegetable farm was planned, in part, to fill that void.

“Part of our goal, too, was how do we give her something that she can be productive at and feel successful at but still be safe,” Schwab said.

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