Blazing Sun and Blazing Hearts. Moon Bear CSA Delivery #2

Upper Mid Garden on the Art Farm

Hello Moon Bears,

We're getting ready for the second delivery of 2015. Last week we literally cleared every ripe and ready item out of the garden for delivery #1. Which always happens. And like every year before we just prayed that the Earth would be bounteous over the coming week and fill basket #2. Which always happens. We have always had just enough, and the garden has always given a 100% to our members. I'm super grateful.

On the Menu for a Full Share This Week:

• Rainbow Chard
• Rhubarb
• New Potatoes
• Butter Lettuce Salad
• Sweet Snap Peas
• Detroit Beets
• Walla Walla Onions
• Fresh Garlic
• Siberian Kale
• Striped Zucchini



It's Hot Out There!

• Broccoli, if it grows a little more.

Star Shine Salad bagged and Ready for the Cooler

Lettuce and Spinach for 13ish CSA Boxes

Ruby Queen Beets Getting a Bath

Callie, The Supervisor and Security Guard

Thanks for believing in organic and local agriculture on a micro level.

See You For deliveries on Thursday.

Rick


(c) Copyright Words and Images,  Rick Sievers, Moon Bear Produce, June 2015

Welcome Autumn Rain: Bonus Delivery for the Moon Bear CSA

 Hello Moon Bears,

Last but not least... a few new arrivals have made it to the garden. I told you I'd share everything we have available. So here it is. 
On your Menu for the last (Bonus) Delivery for 2014 (Full Share)

• Brussel Sprouts still on the stalk (Only 6 right now)
• Personal Cabbage
• Bunching Onions
• Venersborg Garlic
• Carnival, Spaghetti and Hubbard Winter Squash
• The Cutest, Shiniest Eggplant You ever Saw
• A Few Zucchini

We'll also have Stunning Chard and Sweeetening Kale if you want to come up and pick for yourself.
Just call ahead.

Thanks for a great season.
Please Consider Reserving your spot at This Years Price by sending in a $25 deposit.
Also a $20 discount to current members for each paying referral you send me.
 
I loved working in Your garden.
Rick


 

(c) Rick Sievers, Moon Bear Produce, October 2014

Shifting into Rest and Dreams - Week 12 of the Moon Bear CSA

Honey Bee:  

Keeper of the Secrets.  

Forager of the Sweetness.  

Painter of the Sunlight.

Hello Moon Bears,

Our last official delivery week. What a Summer. The garden has given all that she can this year. Soon it'll be time to let the earth rest and breathe without any pressure to produce. I spent some time wandering around the rows. A lot of tilled and covered earth presents a face of relief that the seasons are changing. I'm so grateful for the bounty and unconditional gifts offered in colors so bright and deep.

The bees gather their nectar. The frogs sing their chorus. The snakes bask upon the stony wall. And I write to you with gratitude shift toward going inward, bringing in the harvest and then letting the land sleep for awhile.

On Your Menu This Week for a full share

• Fairy Eggplant (For 4 boxes)
• Mini Purple Bell Peppers
• Gold and Green Zucchini
• Heirloom Tomatoes
• Golden Grape Tomatoes
• Salad Mix
• Detroit and Ruby Beets
• Venersborg Garlic
• Fresh Basil
• Rainbow Carrots
• Armenian and Lemon Cucumbers
• Sweet Corn (For those that did not get it last week)
• Red Onion
• Luscious Seedless Concord Grapes

Members: Be Sure to RSVP for the Annual Moon Bear Fire Circle and Potluck on September 26th from 6ish till 8ish on the Art Farm. It's a fun, informal way to meet your community And see the little farm YOU helped finance this year.

See you in the Garden

Rick

(c) Copyright Rick Sievers, Moon Bear Produce, September 2014

Purplepalooza- Week 11 of the Moon Bear CSA

Seedless Concord Grapes Growing Outside Our Kitchen Window

Hello Moon Bears

New visitors have offered themselves to your CSA box this week. A cornucopia of amazing species.
And a few of your favorites. I'm reminded again and again how generous the Earth is to Her children, how gracious with Her offerings and how little She asks in return. To remind us of nature's wonder, a bear wandered down our road this week, munching on the blackberry vines and leaving a "calling card" at the bottom of our driveway. Even the bear likes purple food...

On Your Menu this Week for a full share:

• Fairy eggplant (Not every box will get them this week. We need more ripening time for the rest next week)
• Purple Hawaiian Bell Peppers
• Salad Mix (Last of the lettuce this season)
• Crimson Chard
• Detroit and Ruby Queen Beets
• Lemon and Armenian Cucumbers
• Sweet Corn (For the 1st five boxes this wk., then for the rest next week)
• Luscious, Luxurious, deLicious Seedless Concord Grapes (Fruit of the gods)
• Chocolate, Red and Grape Cherry Tomatoes.
• Heirloom Slicing Tomatoes
• Baby Turnips
• Trio of Beans
• Fingerling Potatoes

 Thanks for Believing in Local Sustainable Agriculture.

See You in the Garden
Rick

(c) Copyright Rick Sievers, Moon Bear Produce, August 2014

Roots, Shoots and Tubers: Week 10 of the Moon Bear CSA

Pulling Russian Banana Fingerling Potatoes in the Moon Bear Garden

Hello Moon Bears,

Have you ever experienced the miracle of digging potatoes? A little slip of skin and eye buried deep in the dark. Mounded and watered. Purple and pink flowers lovingly tended by bees. Then the stalks die back. A yellowing strand of stalk remains, announcing that a new phase of wonder has begun: The harvest. Digging into the loam is akin to delving beneath one's skin. Finding nodes and arteries and veins. The roots and shoots travel in an amazing pattern. And the earth smells of life ready to breath in the open air.

 Today I'm grateful for potatoes and beets and carrots. The ones that stay hidden throughout the season and then appear as gifts.

On This Weeks Menu for a Full Share:

• Finn Apple, Russian Banana and Rosy Riveter Red Fingerling Potatoes
• Atomic Red and Solar Yellow Carrots
• Venersborg Garlic. This "species" has been growing wild here since we've been here
• Rhubarb Chard
• Spaghetti, Acorn and Delicata  Squash (A random assortment in boxes)
• Detroit Yellow Beets
• Purple Plums
• Lemon and Burpless Green Cucumbers
• Personal Sized Cabbage (Savoy, Red, Green)
• Rainbow Heirloom Tomatoes
• Purple and Golden Tomatillos (Get your salsa recipes ready)
• Kale if I can find any hiding in the cool shadows

Next week we'll have Miniature Purple Bell Peppers, Fairy Eggplant and Seedless Concord Grapes. Lots more tomatoes too.

Thanks.
See You in the Garden
Rick

(c) Copyright, Rick Sievers, Moon Bear Produce, August 2014