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THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN OUR FARM CSA SHARE! Here is the link to sign up for next year again!

Posted on October 6th, 2020 by Mhonpaj Lee

What an amazing season we had together! Thank you  for being a part of our beautiful, vibrant farm community. We are proud of how much we all learned and developed this year. We hope the produce you took home showed the love and knowledge we poured into it. 2020 Season sign up starts on 10/16/2020 date!

 

We were truly amazed that our 2020 CSA was such a success. Since we'd love to have you be a part of our farm again next year, our 2021 CSA shares are now available exclusively to you! The 2021 season will start the week of June 13th and end the week of How to Reserve Your SpotIf you are ready to sign up now, click here to reserve your spot. We will be offering auto renew this season! No need to spend time signing up again - we’ll just automatically renew you into the next season if you choose. Stay tuned, we will provide you with additional information about how auto renew works and when it will happen and you’ll have the choice to participate or not. If you refer a friend we will give you$10.00 credit and for registering early before November 31 you will get a $5.00 credit.

 

Yours in community,

 

Mhonpaj

Mhonpaj’s Garden

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN OUR FARM CSA SHARE! Here is the link to sign up for next year again!
Mhonpaj's Garden
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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