Less the Mule

This cultivator and plow, less the mule, were used growing Celery in Seminole County in both Sanford and Kolokee. They were the tools of Benjamin Harrison Greer and Isabel Leota Greer who came here from Nebraska in 1910 and farmed through the 30's. He settled on 160 acres just north of the Kolokee Depot, back when the East Coast Railroad was making weekly runs from New Smyrna thru Geneva, Chuluota, Bithlo, Holopaw, Fort Drum and down to Okeechobee.

Before tractors, the push cultivator was the tool every vegetable farmer needed to prevent weeds and loosen the soil between the rows. The model pictured here straddled the row for better accuracy, and it was a huge time-saver over the garden hoe.

The Greer's granddaughter, Priscilla Gray and husband, Gary kept them in barns preserving these 100 year old slices of Seminole's history.

You can see these implements and others on display at BigDaddy's Farm Market open every Satuday, 8am-1pm. Find the freshest vegetables in Oviedo and maybe talk farm equipment with a real antique...Farmer Rex.

Wanna read more on the history of mentioned town, visit http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/extinct_towns_.htm