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The Bainbridge Island Farmers Market Winter Market continues this Saturday (Dec. 10) and next (Dec. 17). Here Rebecca is showing off some strange looking fingerling potatoes, can you tell the fingers from the potatoes? They may look odd, but they are yummy. Grown right here in Indianola! Bundle up and head over Saturday and say hello.
The Winter Market is on the corner of Winslow Way and Madison, you can’t miss it. 
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The Bainbridge Farmers’ Market continues as the “Winter Market” at the Eagle Harbor Congregational Church, Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m, Nov. 19 through Dec. 17. Support your local producers! There is no better place to get absolute fresh and local ingredients for your holiday meals. Persephone Farm will be there offering our fine veggies, herbs and flower bouquets. To learn more about the Winter Market visit the Farmer’s Market website.
Instead of Town Square at City Hall Park we’ll be at Eagle Harbor Congregational Church. It’s at the corner of Winslow Way and Madison.
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Louisa is posting pictures and news on Facebook. If you’re on Facebook please take a moment to “Like” us.
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CSA subscribers: You are invited to bring your family and join us for an evening at the farm. See your summer vegetables growing! Taste a leaf of sweet Fennel or sour Sorrel as you stroll the fields. (No dogs please. Our chickens and peacocks are free-ranging) It is quite important that at least one member of each subscriber household attend. After this meeting, our pickups will be on a self-serve basis and must run smoothly for everyone to get his/her share of the just-harvested bounty.
We’ll explain the system at the orientation, as well as sign you up for bread, cheese or egg shares, or other delectable additions to our own farm’s harvest, if you’re interested. Each of these is an add-on to the CSA, a delicious way to support local producers, and an opportunity to collect an even more abundant basket each week.
Your first vegetables of this season will be ready for you to take home. The distribution will come at the end of the evening for new subscribers. Returnees may pay their balance, grab veggies and go if you like. Bring a bag or box to carry your bounty down the driveway. Please park on Midway or in the designated pasture area halfway up the drive. Our parking area at the orientation site is limited, please, to those who cannot make the 100-yard walk up the hill.
Your final payment will be due at the orientation. Most full shares have already paid a $250 deposit—the balance is $400. Split shares sent a $150 deposit and have $350 remaining. Checks should be made payable to Persephone Farm.
Rebecca, Louisa, Bill and our apprentices are very excited to see this program starting for another glorious season. We look forward to meeting all our new subscribers and seeing the familiar faces of friends and neighbors.
PERSEPHONE (Greek Goddess of Spring, Flowers, and Rebirth)
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Persephone Farm is very proud of their salad greens. Rebecca considers them their “signature product”, the first (and most unique) offering the farm produces. She says…
“We started the mix way back in 1991, before the baby salad green craze was even a notion. One thing I like to say about our Wild and Fancy salad mix is that it was never meant to be merely a platform for dressing (as is the case with so many bland dumbed down salad mixes these days.) We strive to have an exciting mouth feel, a variety of flavors, textures and leaf shapes in every batch. We painstakingly comb the fields for wild crafted ingredients in every picking. Some of these are: chick weed, lambs quarters, wild amaranth, (lemony) sheep sorrel, purslane, wild cress, cheese weed, and dandelion greens. It is my belief that these plants offer us nutritional and medicinal benefits not often found in cultivated crops. They are here in symbiosis with us humans, co-evolving to benefit both plant and animal species. Not to mention that they offer unique and special flavors not found in commercial mass produced greens mixes.”
Oh yes! I can testify, this is very tasty stuff—so many textures and flavors of green goodness. A light dressing of olive oil & lemon juice, a bit of shaved Reggiano Parmesano on top and viola, that’s serious good eats (as Alton Brown would say). Oh, you can try to forage around your own yard (I have), but it’s so much easier to pick some up from Rebecca at the Bainbridge Farmer’s Market or better yet, become a CSA subscriber.
Persephone Farm’s Wild and Fancy salad greens are served at many fine restaurants, among them The Four Swallows, Hitchcock, The New Rose Cafe at Bainbridge Gardens and The Port Gamble General Store. Subscribers often get a bag in their weekly share and can add-on extra salad greens if they choose. Buon appetito!
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New chicks keeping warm
May Day was warm and beautiful. Perfect for a visit to the farm. Persephone Farm’s early crops are coming in! (A month late). Some of Persephone’s season extension tricks: low tunnels, row covers, and an unheated lean-to greenhouse. We saw the cute and fuzzy two day old baby chicks keeping warm under lamps in the barn.
A few CSA shares are still available, to learn more download the CSA brochure.
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