A Kentucky family farm, three generations deep.
From row crops and cattle to a garden center to your dinner table, the story of the Lee family farm in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
Billy & Joyce Lee
The story of Cedar Valley Farms begins with my Papaw, Billy Lee. Papaw has been involved in agriculture since he was a small child, so there was no question of what he wanted to do for the rest of his life after high school. Papaw wanted to farm.
He moved to Iowa and worked on a grain and cattle farm, but soon realized that he wanted to farm on his own. So he moved back to Hodgenville, Kentucky and started to farm on his own — row-crop farming corn and soybeans and raising cattle to sell. It wasn't until the next generation that we began going direct to customers.
Scotty & Robin Lee
Our story continues with my dad, Scotty Lee, and my mom, Robin Lee. In 1985, they began Lee's Garden Center in Hodgenville, KY as a farm and wholesale greenhouse operation. The Garden Center started as a little green building with four small greenhouses located just outside of town on Highway 31E.
Robin ran the Garden Center while running plant routes all over the southern United States. Scotty ran the farm and raised vegetables, tobacco, and cattle. My sisters (Laura and Ashley) and I grew up farming. Whether it was in the tobacco fields or running through the greenhouse, we were involved with agriculture from an early age.
Later this small garden center morphed into what it is today, with thousands of hanging baskets, vegetables, and bedding plants to choose from each year. They've now also added sweet corn that many local students can enjoy any given school day. Now that is where my story begins!
Jud & Abby Lee
I graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2015, moved back to the family farm, and married Abby in 2017. I immediately began thinking of a way to connect my family farm directly to our consumers. Thus Cedar Valley Farms was born.
I believe it's important to know where your food comes from and that it's responsibly grown. We are always striving to produce the freshest vegetables and meat products, so that we can feed your healthy family. It's very exciting to think about where our farm is today and how I got here.
Continue the story
We've written a few blog posts that go more in depth about our family.
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Kentucky Local Farm
Our Hodgenville family farm raises pastured pork, pastured eggs, grass-fed beef, and produce. We deliver weekly to homes in Hodgenville, Elizabethtown, Fort Knox, Louisville, and we ship across Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Tennessee. Shop small and eat well!
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