Farm Happenings for June 26, 2021

Hello ! Thank you for the patience this week as we work out the CSA deliveries and shortage of zucchini and lettuce.

This week we are featuring garlic scape. Here is a recipe for garlic scape and Malabar spinach!

7 Things To Do with Garlic Scapes Recipe | The Crisper Whisperer (seriouseats.com)

Chinese Stir-Fried Malabar Spinach (Tsuru-Murasaki) Recipe by cookpad.japan - Cookpad

This week we got rain! Yea but still not enough so we will keep praying for more rain.

We purchased a used Kabota tractor so we can get tilling done quicker and and all the other road mainteance. We have been using a hand tiller and weeding by hoe for the last fifteen years so we are excited to be able to do that.

Fencing is in and irrigation is in. Sweet potato slips came in so we will be planting those in this week.

Thank you for your continued support. There will be a few articles coming out about how weather has affected us and we will share the journal once it comes out.

Please click like and submit pictures of what you are cooking with all the vegetables for our first time csa members and customers!

(10) Mhonpaj's Garden | Facebook

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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