Wednesday, May 1, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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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.
REAL FOOD = the whole plant and nothing more
GROWN HERE = in Sisters using only organic practices
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