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 cashflow 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 BeeRay 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 34 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

Bee-Ray
Farms

per week and average it out!

Crop List For

For more
information please contact Brock
2015For
this
at 734-516-0520 or visit us on Facebook at
year we will
BeeRay farms!
be offering
vegetables to
our customers
either at our
Full share price: $500
farm, select
Half share price $300
regional
farmers
To book you for this program in we need
paymentor
by May15, 2013. Thanks for your
markets,
cooperation!
our CSA. The
following is a
brief list of
what we have
in the works:

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.

Hot Peppers
Green Peppers

Name______________________________________

Sweet Peppers

Telephone__________________________________

Eggplant

Address____________________________________

Cucumbers
Onions (fresh
eating)

___________________________________________
Email Address________________________________

Potatoes (4-5
kinds new and
storage)

Mail this form along with check or money order

to:

Small head
lettuce

Brock Bradley

Radishes
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Green Beans

(& Make checks payable to)

5370 Earhart Rd
Ann Arbor, MI
48105
Any Question call Brock: (734) 516-0520 or
Rayanne (734) 262-1789

Zucchini
Salad Greens
Spinach

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!