Moondance Organic Gardens - Veggie Baske Program

More then 25 types of vegetables, full assortment of herbs, 16 types of salad greens and beautiful edible flowers.

Just imagine the tastiest, good for you vegetables and herbs fresh from the garden. Washed and ready for you to enjoy! From the ordinary to the extraordinary, marvelous mesclun mix, crunchy carrots, cool cucumbers, striped Italian beets, pear melons, purple carrots, and Brandywine tomatoes.

Here's to an exciting new growing season full of sunshine and refreshing greens. Seeds are here, sprouting and helping me dream of luscious green salads, snappy peas and crisp carrots. We would be so thrilled if you would join us in our great green growing adventure.

We sell the bulk of our vegetables though subscription to a weekly mixed basket of organically grown, fresh vegetables and herbs. This allows us to coordinate field to table delivery, which ensures the highest nutritional and taste quality of the food for you. Besides supporting your body with healthy food you are supporting locally grown organic food that reduces our ecological footprint: reducing harmful chemicals and damaging transportation. Each choice makes an impact!

How it all works!

2007 Summer Season

Vegetable Basket Program

Hello and Welcome to the gardens and our growing adventure. This is to let you know a little more about how the whole thing works.

Our Vegetable basket program is a form of a CSA (community shared agriculture). CSA is a concept that evolved so that people could get a closer connection to their food, get the freshest food possible and become involved in the farm. Each CSA is set up differently. Each year we adapt to try to make the experience as best as we can for all involved.

What We Do:

Email a “Garden Bulletin” with updates, what’s available, recipes, organic thoughts, and other needed communication. It should be out by Monday evening. Here is a link to what a sample veggie basket's contain and the quantities .
Each week, pick, wash (except beans), bunch (if needed) and set out a variety of vegetables fresh from the gardens.
Set the food out in containers, with cooler pack and covering or what ever if most appropriate to keep it as fresh as possible until you arrive.
Have a large board in the “pick up tent”, with listing of what is available and the quantities for this week. At the top of the board it will indicate “Please choose 9 of 11 items” (for example), that will change week to week depending on what and how much is available from the gardens.
Try to have some herbs and cut flowers picked and ready for you or/and you are invited to grab some scissors and clip your own.
Spend the rest of the week, planting, weeding, taking care of the gardens, which requires a lot more work than it sounds like!

What You Do:

Come pick up fresh veggies, herbs and flowers for your week. The trick is to remember until it gets into your schedule. So writing it on your calendar, in your planner or sticky note on the fridge seems to work.
There is a grassy area for you to park at the right when you come in the garden entrance (25^th Sideroad). There is also a washroom right there. There is a lane way for driving up to the pickup tent if you need to for mobility issues, sleeping children, pouring rain ect.
Bring a container to put your food in, the purple baskets from Zehrs work well or a cooler if you are not going straight home. We also have shopping bags if you don’t have anything with you.
Come to the “pick up tent”, which is a covered garage type structure on the far side of the “market stand” (has a bright green roof).
Check out the large board for what is available, what you would like then fill up your basket.
Let me know a minimum of 8am the morning of if you can’t make it. Advanced notice is greatly appreciated.
If you wish to switch pickup days let me know again as soon as possible.
On the first pick up day pay the balance for your basket. Options : one lump payment or 4 cheques (June, July, Aug, Sept.) Contact me if you are not sure what the total is for the basket you chose.
Let me know about anything that is not working for you. Let me know what you really like.

General Information:

* A CSA is more like eating from your back yard garden then your weekly shopping at the grocery store. In the early part of the season you will find fewer items and more concentrated on the greens. By the middle of August the gardens start becoming abundant with many more types of veggies (tomatoes, carrots, beets, beans, zucchini, cucumbers, peas ect.). Into Sept. the abundance and idea of harvest becomes clear with so many vegetables and amount of food that you may start looking around for people to share with. So I ask for your patience as the gardens grow.

If for some reason we can’t get the food ready for pick up day, I will let you know by 8am the morning of if not before. Otherwise even in the rain we will have things prepared.
I will keep track of each week you pick up and twice through the summer email you as to where you are at in regards to how many you signed up for. (you can ask me anytime and I can let you know) If you do not show for your basket and have not let me know the first time is a grace, after that it will count as a basket picked up.
Pot Luck get together. I would so like to have a summer potluck, where we can all get together and enjoy the gardens. I am aiming for the end of July at this point. I’ll let you know when I do!
I’m sure I haven’t answered all your questions so feel free to call or email with anything that is still a question for you.

Thank You for supporting healthy food and local economies. Here is to your health, happiness and a bountiful summer. All the best, Kim

Now you know how the basket program is all about don't forget to take a look at our outline of the quantities and different vegetables provided as the course of the season progresses.

Sign up to be apart of the Veggie Baskets for 2007, just fill out this Form and send it back to Kim soon so that she can make sure that you are apart of fresh weekly veggies all summer long.

Our mission is to produce healthy food, flowers and be good stewards of our land.