Moonwater Farm, The Comptons

07/22/2025

It’s been a minute since we’ve featured all the good food that grows here.

Thank you for investing so much love, muscle and devotion to this land. Our French intensive gardening process really paid off this season. Time to seed up for fall.

No tomatoes in this pic because I just had a bionic hip inserted and climbing to the roof where they are growing in abundance is off limits for several more weeks 🤠

This summer is our first without Farm Camp - it sure is quiet and gosh do we miss everyone. The hiatus has given me plenty of space to heal and navigate immobility - a humbling process.

We can share that .to.shelf will begin outreach in the next week or so with plenty of tabling, open houses, and school visits. Keep your eye out for announcements and save 8/10 for our next Field Visit day.

With the noxious political climate demanding all our efforts and voice, we hope that you can nourish yourself in all the ways that keep you present and protected.

What are you harvesting?

06/10/2025

🌱 We’re hiring! 🌾

Do you speak compost? Dream in crop plans? Feel called to protect pollinators and uplift people?

Moonwater Farm is looking for a Land Steward to join our collective! This part-time role in Compton is for someone who can build soil, increase yield, tend trees, wrangle a chipper, care for livestock, harvest mulberries, lead a school group, and speak up loudly for land and liberation. It’s hands-on, heart-first, and rooted in purpose.

💚 $24/hr | 24 hrs/week | 2-year grant
📍 Compton, CA
🗓️ Apply by June 27
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📌 Check our bio for details & share with someone who’d love this work.

05/21/2025

We believe our government should work for EVERYONE. Demand your elected officials reject cuts to SNAP, health care, and higher education. https://s.quorum.us/558_CO

This is URGENT - please take action today!!

05/20/2025

🐝Happy World Bee Day! 🐝
If you’ve purchased a .to.shelf item this season it probably had local honey as part of its recipe! We’ve been blessed to have as our guide and wisdom keeper sharing secrets, knowledge and profound reverence for the bees.

Our hive are a gentle lot who decided Moonwater would be a good place to live - we know they have some delicious food sources!

One of our greatest surprises came in the sublime flavor and energy in the bee nectar - a rarefied experience!!

Bee sure to thank a bee this week for your food! And plant some flowers for our friends! They are needing all the support we can muster this year.

04/26/2025

We had a a spectacular day yesterday with Holmes Elementary sharing lessons in Black Cowboy culture with the venerable Mike Davis, BBQ science with and the power of seed saving with . The lessons reminded us of the powerful inspiration that shifted our vision permanently and brought us into deep relationship with and the OGs of Black Cowboy and Vaquero culture in South Los Angeles.

We are forever grateful for the profound influence and inspiration our local equestrians have bred here at Moonwater.

It’s a joy to find brilliant educators using these stories to teach literacy, history and empowerment for the next generation.

Knowledge is power.

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04/22/2025

🌎 For your Earth Day pleasure, we present Puya alpestris zoellneri, formerly known as Puya berteroniana. She’s a native of Chile in the Andes and a pineapple relative🍍 - a terrestrial bromeliad (grown in the ground, not the air). 🏔 The word Puya is derived from the Mapuche indigenous word meaning point. In Quechua, she can be referred to as titanka, santun, ilakuash or qishqi

Her blue-to-teal color floral display is unrivaled in the natural world (our pics hardly do her justice), and she has bright orange stamens full of nectar. Her sterile floral parts are perches for birds. She’s screaming, “Come taste me!!”

Her foliage is spikey and curved - a good security plant and very drought tolerant. Growing her is not for the faint of heart, however, as she gets big and can be troublesome to tidy up.

We invite you to check out her magnificence - it has taken 10 years for this flower to show! She won’t be here long and lives streetside, so no appointment necessary. If you are a plant geek like us, you won’t be disappointed.

The Puya family has as many as 168 species including the tallest bromeliad in the world – Queen of the Andes, which blooms once in 80 years!

What Earth wonders are you marvelling at today?

04/14/2025

We had three brilliant sessions with students from Alhambra Unified School District. Such engaged, curious learners - all the staff delighted in sharing their culinary, animal and plant science knowledge!

A good time was had by all.

03/26/2025

Another season is upon us. Join us Saturday 3.29 between 11-3 pm for a second look at Seed to Shelf.

The cohort explored product refinement, economic solidarity and continue to develop a land stewardship practice.

💐We are pursuing purpose through the courage of love despite the ways it can feel blurry and violent when you’re making a new path.
🌸 Joining us on Saturday are an incredible array of talent and support! Please come through to meet:
:source for spirit adornments :provider of local honey
:foraging natures gifts :mixing the Sonic narrative
:showing us the seasons blooms
:pouring herbal libations
:crafting ceramic function
:tempting with tamales

🌹The day also offers delicious eats from the culinary team, refined wellness offerings, and an explosion of garden starts for your future floral and edible outcomes!

Please RSVP ☝🏼so we don’t make food waste;) Sharing a story, a bite, a conversation … we look forward to your presence 🫶🏼🤠💐

PS - bring cash if you can so we keep it local and the system OUT;)

PSS: free

03/03/2025

🥚 Look at these eggcellent specimens will you? The girls are starting to lay again what with the equinox approaching and the warmth of Spring bringing temperatures up.

🥚 Most commercial laying hens don’t get a break - they live in lighted conditions to keep them laying. At Moonwater we know the importance of cycles, rest, and renewal. It cost quite a bit to feed a chicken and get no eggs though 😭

🥚 Fun fact: you can see two fertilized eggs in this picture - which hens does our rooster prefer? Know how to tell? Drop your guess in the comments with correct nomenclature to get a free half dozen!

Also - save the date! .to.shelf will be holding their second market at the end of the month - save the date 3/29!!

12/10/2024

Playing with cochineal today and introducing students to the chemistry, nuance and history of this important dyestuff.

Hope y’all had a good Monday too.

12/07/2024

Full day harvesting, processing, preparing, packaging, and pricing for our local market next Saturday December 14th.

Come on down to the farm for an exploration of all we’ve been up to this Autumn with our cohort!

We also have vendors and joining us.

And at 5.30pm - and take the stage sharing their soulful music and poetry!

It’s the culmination of our autumn season and the year - we really want to celebrate with you. COME 🤠

11/20/2024

We hope you will join us on December 14th from 2 PM - 7.30PM for a holiday exchange! We will have an open-air market and amazing entertainment. Come visit and support our first cohort for our Seed to Shelf™ fellowship.

We will celebrate the first milestone of our Seed to Shelf™ Program. We'll have food, crafts, and other goodies to share and sell.