Bee-Ray Farms

Our Mission and Background:

To provide our customers with a true homegrown experience. It is our belief that good food should nourish the soul and body and be incorporated into programs that also nourish the soil and soul as well. Through nourishment of the soil we improve our own quality of life by improving the overall state of our surroundings, animal, mineral, and vegetable. It is our philosophy that if one is surrounded by a happy and healthy world that they are much more likely to feel that way too. We are not single crop monoculture farmers but rather we use things like crop rotations, cover crops, composts, and even ruminants, avians, and earthworms. Really what we are doing is create systems that work in harmony as nature intended to grow quality crops that people can trust.

I grew up on a dairy farm in the northern foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. It was in my formative years as a child and eventually a young man where I learned value of hard work, human relations and manure! We were not a large industrial farm like you so often see today. We were a small operation and to survive we had to do things the right way, at the right time, and for the right reason. Nowadays farming in large part is a huge industrial undertaking in which the consumer never even sees how things are produced. Even much of the "organic" food sold today is largely void of consumers even knowing where it came from. Our children often do not even know that milk comes from cows or that eggs come from chickens, or that a turkey has bones.

At Bee-Ray farms not only do we think its your right to see where your food comes from but we encourage it!

CSA Info:

What is a CSA:

Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a food production and distribution system that directly connects farmers and consumers. Consumers buy "shares" in a farms harvest in advance. In this model farms earn important capital early and have a guaranteed market for their produce. It is beneficial to the farmer because it is an important source of cash-flow at the peak of his cost/benefit cycle. Barring crop failures or other disastrous harvest (rare in a polyculture farm), consumers enjoy overall lower food costs, field fresh produce, and greater access to high demand fruits and vegetables such as heirloom tomatoes. This is regarded as a win-win situation in which the farmer is kept solvent financially which also helps the consumer by making sure the farmer doesn't take shortcuts. Benefits and risks are shared by both the producer and consumer. Dollars are kept in the local economy, and the local community is better served.

2015 Summer Vegetable CSA at Bee-Ray farms

This year at Bee-Ray we plan on having 12 full shares or equivalent half shares available. Our full share is designed to fit the needs of four people based on weekly serving of the vegetables currently in season. Our half share is similar but is less of the same items and is designed for two people. We will have our first distributions available around the third week of June and they should run for approximately 16 weeks or until first killing frost. Typically a share early on would contain a few greens, radishes, and other quick crops (maybe 3-4 items) during the peak of the harvest season you might get 8-10 different items, and by fall you would start to see more storage crops like the winter squashes, and the variety again tapers off. This is a great deal for a family if you break it down per week and average it out!

For more information please contact Brock at 734-516-0520 or visit us on Facebook at BeeRay farms!

Full share price: $500

Half share price $300

To book you for this program in we need payment by May15, 2013. Thanks for your cooperation!

Crop List For 2015For this year we will be offering vegetables to our customers either at our farm, select regional farmers markets, or our CSA. The following is a brief list of what we have in the works:

Hot Peppers

Green Peppers

Sweet Peppers

Eggplant

Cucumbers

Onions (fresh eating)

Potatoes (4-5 kinds new and storage)

Small head lettuce

Radishes

Cabbage

Cauliflower

Broccoli

Green Beans

Zucchini

Salad Greens

Spinach

Beets

Tomatoes (several varieties)

Leaf Lettuce

Acorn Squash

Yellow SummerSquash

Butternut squash

Green Onions

Kale

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Salad Greens

Spinach

Beets

Tomatoes (several varieties)

Leaf Lettuce

Acorn Squash

Yellow Summer Squash

Butternut squash

Hot Peppers

Sweet Peppers

Eggplant

Cucumbers

CSA ORDER FORM

Yes, I am interested in supporting local agriculture by joining Bee-Ray Farms summer vegetable CSA at the following level: (Check one of the following)

____ $300 “Half Share” 1/2 - 3/4 bushel seasonal weekly vegetables. This feeds approximately 2 adults and a young child. Our most popular size.

___$500 “Full Share” 1-1.5 bushels of weekly seasonal vegetables. This feeds larger families. 3 to 4 adults.

Name______________________________________

Telephone__________________________________

Address____________________________________

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Email Address________________________________

Mail this form along with check or money order to:

(& Make checks payable to)

Brock Bradley

5370 Earhart Rd

Ann Arbor, MI

48105

Any Question call Brock: (734) 516-0520 or

Rayanne (734) 262-1789

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

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