Farm mission
The foundation of a good life is to serve others! Our mission is to enrich the health and enjoyment of our customers through nutritionally dense vegetables, meat and eggs. We will do this by treating the soil as the living organism it is. (As explained below and under "nutritional density on this site.)
Our mission is to have people connect with our farm. The goal of this website is for you to begin to connect to our farm. Outside of that, there are three ways for you to connect with our farm:
- One way to connect with our farm is through our vegetable stands. We have stands in Fergus Falls open seven days a week. We are in the Fargo-Moorhead area six days a week. We are in Breckenridge and Pelican Rapids on alternate days six days each week. Specific details of our stands are found at the "Stand locations" button on the website. In Fergus, our stand at KMart will start the last half of May. The rest of the stands will tentatively start in July.
- We also operate a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) where you sign up before the season begins to receive a box of our best produce delivered to you each week starting in late May or early June. You can choose between a full share and half share and between home delivery and a drop off site in your neighborhood. What you receive in the box each week is explained in "How it works" and "What
you can expect" menu selections under the CSA menu tab. The box deliveries are the core of the CSA. The box deliveries, alone are more than worth the cost of the CSA. As a CSA shareholder in our farm, you are also invited to attend 7 harvest events where, in addition to the box deliveries, you are invited to come and harvest green beans, peas, herbs, pickling cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet corn and fall crops. The farm events are the bonus of being part of our CSA. You don't have to attend, but you are invited. This brings real connection to our farm and allows you to can, freeze and store food for the long winter months ahead. The addition of this to your CSA membership makes the affordability of the CSA from us to be a total no-brainer! Specific details of the farm events are found under the CSA menu bar in "How it works". All of the information about CSA and sign-up are under the CSA menu button on this website. Secure sign-up occurs under "Sign me up." You can also sign up by invoice only and send a check. If finances are a problem, we can easily work out a payment plan that works for you. If finances are a real problem, check out the food share menu bar under CSA. That is
an awesome program to line up CSA food sponsors for your CSA share. We want everyone to be able to share the flavor of summer at Bluebird Gardens!! NOW is the time to sign up for your Summer CSA. Once the membership is filled, it will be too late. Any questions, feel most free to call me at 218-205-4739!
- The farm events just listed are also open to customers who aren't part of our CSA. (They are explained in detail under CSA, "How it works.") You can sign up for this under the CSA "Sign me up." Then select "farm events" as the item you wish to purchase. We are extremely excited to offer these farm events to you as the total connection of you to Bluebird Gardens. The farm events allow you and your family to make a memory. Not only will you harvest to your heart's content, and do this without the agony of doing your own garden fighting squirrels, raccoons, wood chucks and weeds, but you will also get to experience the farm! Feel the wind turbine working and see what happy sheep and chickens rotationally grazing on our cover crops actually do!! When you bring the minutes-fresh produce home and can/freeze or store for winter, the next step is to savor the flavor and the memories... all winter long!!
Our goal is for you to "Know your farmer " and to feel like Bluebird Gardens is your farm. YOU are a stakeholder in it!
In our country, the elements we need to live a healthy life are not in the soil. They have been missing for decades. As a result, we are eating our way into obesity hoping the minerals we crave are in the next bite...but they are not there.
Our MISSION is to restore the delicate ratios between the elements in the soil by adding the ones that are 
missing. This allows soil life to flourish. The soil life feeds on the organic matter in the soil (our green manure crops) thus providing a constant nutrient source to the plants. This entire process creates the unsurpassable flavor of nutritional density!
If we were raising food organically but still didn't make the huge investment of adding the missing elements, we would just be raising nutritionally empty organic food. In our opinion, our investment in the soil goes beyond organic. We call it "Morganic"!
People sometimes ask if we are organic. No, we are not certified organic. With what we now know about fostering health, in this age of "know your farmer", a better question in regards to your food might be, "Are you a biological farmer?" That is a huge question that far supersedes "Are you organic?" Why is that? If the elements that have been depleted for decades are not in the soil, we are raising empty food, organic or not. The mineralized soil sets the stage for life to flourish. But that isn't enough. The life in the soil needs to be added as well. Farm fields are alive with bacteria but not the much needed fungi. So we are adding an organic product called Soil Infusion which contains items such as uncooked kelp, yucca, worm castings, spirulina and fulvic acids, to name a few. This creates life in the soil to create immense benefits. This life in the soil will be fed our constant supply of cover crops. These three steps require a huge investment in money and time with the driving focus of bringing flavor and health to our customers.
Gary Zimmer, who has done biological farming for two decades in southern Wisconsin, has dairy cows. Because his cows dine on the nutritional density of his farm, they grow old but keep producing. He has fifteen year old cows still producing on his farm. His rotational grazing chickens get to be nine pounds in the time that it should take them to be five pounds.
The good news is that biological farming is the natural path of being organic. For example, weeds are stimulated to grow whcn soil minerals are out of balance. Likewise, when copper is in the soil, plant health rises, not to mention flavor. Sulfur in the soil not only drought proofs a farm, but it helps the plant make complete proteins. Insects can't digest complete proteins, only incomplete proteins from weak and malnourished plants. Our final frontier in being chemical free is weeds in our row crops. This year we purchased a rolling cultivator and a rotary hoe. Our goal is that this will help us be completely free from use of chemicals.
SAVOR THE FLAVOR AT BLUEBIRD GARDENS!!
