Whats Happening! Daikon Radish, Acorn Squash and Lettuce, Shallots are upcomming!

This week was eventful. Frost has bitten the cold. We wanted to first apologize we ran out of red potatoes and were supplementing with Yukon gold and fingering and the Broccoli Rabe version was the asian varieity so it looked more like a mustard green/turnip greens. We are also nearing the end of tomato, cucumber and zucchini for the season and brining onboard the squashes. We state yellow carrots but we were stand corrected last week that it is orange carrots. So apologies as farmer we are working around the clock to get your vegetables the fastest. We harvest majority of your vegetables the night before and get it to you at midnight we pack boxes and 4am we are at market to deliver. So there is no time for errors and omission. We work at a very fast pace and all of our farm hands have second careers to farming. This is our first year running a CSA and we have had excellent reviews and hope to continue to do so.

We also harvested Daikon Radish for local Youbetcha Kimchi Maker. Check them out below:

https://www.youbetchakimchi.com/

Hopefully you are enjoying the Black Radish, Daikon Radish and so I will include some recipes below for Black Radish!

https://cnz.to/recipes/salads/black-radish-and-potato-salad-recipe/

https://www.akitchenhoorsadventures.com/black-radish-pickles/

Mhonpaj’s Garden is a 9-acre certified organic vegetable farm owned by May Lee and her daughter Mhonpaj. With 5 acres in Stillwater and 4 acres in Marine on St. Crox, May and her family grow a variety of vegetables, bedding plants and herbs.
In 1980, May, her husband Chue, their children and May’s mother immigrated to the United States from Loas as refugees. They found work farming conventionally, but when May’s mother was diagnosed with cancer after working with pesticides in the United States, May knew she needed to start farming organically.
May’s daughter Mhonpaj was connected with the Minnesota Food Association (MFA) and learned about their New Immigrant Agriculture Program (now called the Farmer Education Program). The Lee’s were accepted into the three-year program, which gave them access to the MFA’s 60-acre certified organic incubator farm, Big River Farm, and connected them with a Hmong-speaking coordinator who helped them find resources and answer questions about organic farming. Together they resolved issues ranging from drip irrigation setup to product liability insurance to insect control.
In 2010, the Lee’s “graduated” from the MFA program and went on to become the first Hmong-owned certified-organic farm in Minnesota. May and her family now farm leased land along the St. Croix River.

In addition to farming, May spends lots of time educating other growers about organic practices through the MFA and as a Master Gardener volunteer for Ramsey County. She and her family also share their culinary heritage through cooking demonstrations and classes.

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