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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 21 Mahonia Gardens to open farm stand in Sisters It9s typically used as a rodenti- By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief homeowner(s) didn9t like, or and most important, there9s a That9s the trouble with most child9s warm body more suit- PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON empty this year and it9s not too someone shouted, <Kill 9em There are Sweeney9s poison peanuts that9ll kill anything that Then there9s the poison used to kill the rodents: if it9s dies. It9s a poison that rodent- there9s the blaring statement, on d-Con9s stuff. Ramik9s poi- There9s <Tomcat= (what an has become one of the world9s or rodents, this one next to a fence near With the encourage- ment of local resident Susan Prince, Sisters District Ranger Reid wrote a letter to the Metolius Association homeowners, stating the rules very clearly about the use of poison stations. Problem is that few people read these emails and, in the meantime, more chipmunks are being killed, and more non-target animals are get- ting poisoned; including one protected by Oregon State law, the golden-mantled ground squirrel. Come June, folks in Sisters will be able to pick up fresh, locally grown produce any time they want to — from a refrig- erated self-service farm stand, the first business of its kind in Sisters. Local farmers Benji Nagel and Carys Wilkins of Mahonia Gardens won approval from the City of Sisters to site their 10-by-18-foot farm stand at 274 E. Adams Ave. in downtown Sisters. The stand will be open to the public 24 hours a day for six months out of the year. The business will make available the produce of Mahonia Gardens on a daily basis through the season — from greens to carrots and beets and radishes to tomatoes, pep- pers and eggplant to garlic and onions. They will simply be able to access the refrigerated stand from the side and pay through an honor system cash box. Nagel told The Nugget that they9re working on a system to allow swiping a credit or debit card. Mahonia Gardens sells its produce at Sisters Farmers Market — which has moved PHOTO PROVIDED Benji Nagel and Carys Wilkins are opening a new Sisters farmstand to sell produce round the clock. to Sunday. The farm stand will allow for a broader base of sales, Nagel said “providing better access to locally grown food in Sisters that isn9t con- fined to such a small timeframe, just once a week.” Some of their produce is also available at Melvin9s Fir Street Market. “Mahonia Gardens is a one-acre market garden in Sisters, dedicated to growing exceptional-quality produce without compromising our eco- logical ethics,” Nagel noted. “We use no chemicals in our production.” They primarily cultivate in four-foot-wide intensive, per- manent beds. Most labor on the farm is done by hand, using broadforks and digging forks to create and maintain beds. Mahonia Gardens grows around 40 vegetable crops that can be included in a weekly CSA (Community Supported Agriculture subscription) box throughout the summer, including: beets, carrots, tur- nips, onions, potatoes, garlic, radishes, sunchokes, broccoli, cabbage, napa cabbage, toma- toes, tomatillos, peppers, egg- plant, kale, chard, parsley, cilantro, salad mix (baby kale, radicchio, baby chard, arugula, spinach, lettuce, mustard), and more. Nagel said he9s ideally shooting for a June 1 opening for the new farm stand, but, “I don9t know how quickly we9re actually going to be able to fin- ish it.” He said that it will certainly open some time in that month. REAL FOOD, GROWN HERE Our miss ion is simple: start ing from the ground and ri sing up, we want to grow the best produce we can and share it with our comm unity. 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