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Maurer Farms grows fruits and vegetables for both wholesale and retail markets.

  • Strawberries
  • Black Raspberries
  • Peaches (2009)
  • Sweet Corn
  • Tomatoes
  • Peppers
  • Pumpkins
  • Beets
  • Green Beans
  • Muskmelon (in season)
  • Watermelon

The Maurer Family sold their first strawberries in 1950, from a small plot of land on Highland Avenue in the north end of Wooster. 

The farm operation was moved to the present location at 2901 Batdorf Road in Wooster Township in 1961. The farm operation has been expanded over the years. Presently David, Carol and son Roger Maurer operate the family farm.

Strawberries, raspberries, sweet corn and all kinds of vegetables are our specialties. We follow the latest cultural practices so that we can provide our customers with the best quality produce possible. We follow integrated pest management practices meaning that we scout our fields for pests; plant resistant varieties; and employ cultural practices that minimize the necessity of using pesticides. The farm has a written food safety policy which all employees follow.

Many individuals and families enjoy picking their own berries in the pleasant surroundings of our strawberry and raspberry fields. We furnish containers at no charge in which you may pick your berries. The strawberry containers hold about 6 pounds and the raspberry buckets hold 7 to 8 pounds.

Our farm market on Batdorf Road is open in season for 10am to 6pm Monday through Saturday and is closed on Sunday. The market features strawberries, raspberries, sweet corn, tomatoes, green beans, melons, and squash all of which are grown on our farm. We also sell some items we do not grow but are grown by other local growers.

Waynes Sunday Paper
The Beacon Journal

BERRIES
 - David Maurer began raising them in Wooster

    
Fruit picking had its heyday in the early 1970's. After declining for several years, Maurer has noticed a slight resurgence in those who want to pick their own fruit.
    Maurer's interest in strawberries goes back to his high school days. In 1949, he entered Wooster High School with dreams of becoming a farmer.
    "My granddad farmed and I wanted to be a farmer ever since I was born," Maurer said.
    Maurer signed up for the vocational agriculture course as a freshman with teacher Glen Boling. The course required students to focus on a project.
    Maurer decided to work with strawberries because they were a high-income crop that could be grown in the limited garden space behind his Highland Avenue residence in Wooster.
    But what began as a high school project in a back yard has developed into one of the largest fruit and vegetable farms in Wayne County.
    Although the Maurer's continue to feature strawberries on about seven acres, they also grow things like green beans, squash and sweet corn. They employ 20 people each summer to help with the labor-intensive tasks.
    David and Roger Maurer divide responsibilities in the field. Roger Maurer, who gradated from Purdue University in 1984 with a degrees in agriculture, manages the cattle, raspberries, tomatoes and melons. David Maurer looks after the strawberries and sweet corn.
    Carol Maurer oversees the fruit stand and serves as the central nervous system to the operation, communicating by walkie-talkie with her husband and son in the fields.
    And it is those fields of sweet corn and strawberry plants where David Maurer is most comfortable.
    After graduating from Ohio State University in 1956 with a degrees in horticulture and vegetable crops, Maurer got sidetracked, opting for a job at the Wayne County National Bank. But Maurer never gave up his dream of farming and purchased some land along Batdorf Road where the produce is grown.

 

 


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2901 Batdorf Road, Wooster, Ohio 44691, Phone: 330-264-2285
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