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Subscribe for the 2020 season by Oct 23 before prices go up

October 3, 2019 By Persephone

Vibrant Fall Flowers

End of the season greetings from your farmers at Persephone. It’s that time of year again. The pumpkins and peppers are coloring up and landing in your CSA boxes. And we’ve turned from planting seeds to planting garlic bulbs and cover crop grains to feed our soil.

We always aim to make the CSA a good value, with a target of filling your boxes with 10-15% more produce and flowers than the share price. This season subscribers have received a whopping 20% more produce than is reflected in the share price, even in this cool, wet summer. YAY!

Share prices increase after Oct 23, 2019

If you fell in love with the bounty of your boxes, the beauty of your bouquets and the sense of community in sharing the harvest, then please consider RE-SUBSCRIBING NOW for 2020.  In addition to our heartfelt thanks, re-subscribing before October 24th will: 

  • allow you to enjoy the 2019 share price. After over a decade we will be raising the share price for 2020 to more accurately reflect the value of the shares.
  • Receive one extra week of Persephone produce! (pick up Wednesday 10/30)
  • OR Receive a $20 gift certificate at our Bainbridge Island Farmers Market stand for 2020! The Market opens way before we have enough produce to start the CSA. Spring, summer or fall, come shop with us on Saturday.
  • As always, subscribers receive a 10% discount at our farmer’s market stand.

Up until October 24th, 2019:
The cost of a full share will remain $650. The full share deposit is $250. The cost of a split share will remain $500. The split share deposit is $150.
Balances will be due when we start up again, Wednesday, June 3, 2020.

You are welcome to pay in full now, which is easier for us. Make your check payable to Rebecca Slattery. Bring it to one of the final pickups and hand it to one of the farmers or farm apprentices. Please do not leave checks loose at the Johnson Farm or in our packing shed.

Or mail your check to:
Rebecca Slattery
P.O. Box 158
Indianola, WA 98342.

Can’t get a check to us by Oct 23rd? Re-subscribe online.

If you have any questions, please call Rebecca at (360) 265-1711 or emailpersephonefarm@gmail.com

Filed Under: CSA, News

Ode to week 4

June 27, 2019 By Persephone

[We’re sharing our email to CSA subscriber, enjoy. And it’s not to late to join our CSA.]

Cauliflower with leaves

Welcome to week 4!
Get ready for so many more!
Your bin, is full of delights 
for a gorgeous din!
Cauliflower and the beginning of raspberries are highlights!
(P.S. Raspberry shares start next week!)

Here through the grey we’ve found sunshine
And have been noticing the cycle sublime.
After the first Cauliflower harvest last week
many are touched my sunlight showing a purple streak!
These Cauliflower we planted mid spring
have fruited about when we found ourselves furrowing beds 
to plant out yet another secession to become king!
And so as you know one thing grows till its spread
Across the compost pile to help another move ahead!

At this point in the season,
we’re really starting to see it all come round 
and are learning so many of the reasons
of how and why and when is sound
to plant, harvest and weed. 
This is just a glimpse to join your feed.

Wishing you well, till next week,
Peace and peas 

The Persephone Crew, Rebecca, Emily, Vanessa, Stephanie and Emma

Filed Under: CSA, News

2019 CSA Orientation June 5

May 30, 2019 By Persephone

Our CSA orientation is June 5, 5:30–7:30 p.m. Please bring your family and join us for an evening at the Farm. See your summer vegetables growing! Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, taste a leaf of sweet fennel or sour sorrel as we stroll the fields and meet our hard-working interns. We’ll explain our pickup system and you’ll have the opportunity to signup for optional add-on shares. These will be delicious ways to support other local producers, and an opportunity to collect an even more abundant basket each week. At the end of the evening, take home your first vegetables of this season! (Subscribers should have received an email from Rebecca with additional details.)

Shares still available!

We are very excited to see this program starting for another glorious season. If you know of others who might be interested in joining us, please spread the word that shares are still available. If you refer someone who subscribes, we’ll thank you with a free box of veggies and, of course, a huge hug and many thanks.

We look forward to meeting all of our new subscribers and seeing the familiar faces of friends and neighbors. Contact Rebecca if you have questions. And be sure to follow us on Instagram @persephonefarmer!

Farm intern with a huge cauliflower
That’s one big cauliflower!

Filed Under: CSA, News

Outstanding in the Field at Persephone Farm, July 13, 2019

March 25, 2019 By Persephone

Big News!

We are thrilled to be partnering with our longtime friend, chef Brendan McGill, to host a farm dinner with Outstanding in the Field. This is a BIG HONOR !

Evening dinner party outside, with red bus
Photo courtesy Outstanding in the Field

The event will be on July 13, 2019. (Sorry, it sold out in a snap!)

Brendan is the celebrated owner of Hitchcock, Bruciato and the soon to open Bar Hitchcock on Bainbridge Island as well as several other great restaurants in Seattle. 

Since Hitchcock’s opening, Persephone and Hitchcock have grown up together. We’ve both remodeled, redecorated, surfed some food waves, created some signature dishes and have enjoyed the farm to table ride which is different every season. 

We look forward to seeing this outstanding vintage red bus in Indianola.

Outstanding in the Field classic red bus
Photo courtesy Outstanding in the Field

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Brendan McGill, farm dinner, farm to table

Meet the 2019 Interns

March 10, 2019 By Persephone

Left to right: Sarah, Emily, Rebecca, Vanessa, and Emma

Please welcome our fabulous new interns!

Sarah, 26, is a librarian from MI who has been volunteering at the Lansing Food Bank Community Gardens and MSU student farm CSA for the past year.  She says that “honoring her commitments” is a core value for her.

Emily, 23,  has been managing a permaculture homestead in IN. She’s been living and working on the 75 acre property in a very solitary environment and is happy to be a part of a team at Persephone Farm. 

Vanessa, 22,  is originally from upstate NY. She has 30 stamps in her passport and I interviewed her while she was in Vienna. Her pet peeve is food waste.

Emma, 23, has been an intern for the last two seasons at Hayshaker Farm in Walla Walla which is owned and operated by Chandler Briggs, a past Persephone intern from way back in 2007. How’s that for a full circle connection? 

We’ve been potting up the seedlings and learning to use our beast of a rototiller to chop in the soil, building cover crops. We’re seeding broccoli, cauliflower, kale and many gorgeous new varieties of flowers. We’ve learned canning with some plum chutney I made to stay busy on a recent cold winter night. And we’re building the community which is Persephone Farm. Thank you for being a part of that community.  ~ Rebecca

Filed Under: News Tagged With: farmers, Interns, Internship Program

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We just made flowers for a rainbow wedding🌈!! W We just made flowers for a rainbow wedding🌈!! We love to create all kinds of bouquets and had so much fun getting creative with all of the colors. The bride asked for rainbow with sage and ferns. We love how it turned out, isn’t it beautiful 😍✨💐

What a perfect way to celebrate pride month and the start of summer! 🏳️‍⚧️🌞🏳️‍🌈 Let us know if you want to work with us for your wedding flowers. We do custom arrangements and love to see your vision come to life ✨🧚
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Grills just wanna have fun! 🤩 Happy Father’s Grills just wanna have fun! 🤩 Happy Father’s Day! Our radishes and sweet walla walla onions 🧅 are great on the grill and a perfect fixture for this Father’s Day! 🦸‍♂️⚒

Fire up those grills and christen them for a summer of ‘grillin! 🧅🍺🍔

Catch us at the @bifarmersmarket this Saturday and online at @kitsapfresh
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We know we have been absent from the market for a We know we have been absent from the market for a bit but we have been hard at work and are back and ready to roll. We will be at the @bifarmersmarket this Saturday from 10am to 2pm with so many goodies 🌸

We will have peonies, the first basil of the year, walla walla onions, gallon size tomato starts, basil starts and more!!

If you want to get tomatoes this will be the last week we will bring the starts to the market. 🌱

Peony season is only a few short weeks long so get your peonies while you can 💐

See you at the market!! ✨
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We finally have peonies! 💐 Tune into the @vnpla We finally have peonies! 💐 Tune into the @vnplantcast that launched this week to listen to their episode on peonies featuring our very own Rebecca Slattery. Learn all about growing peonies, the botrytis fungus, how to deal with sick plants, and more ✨

Rebecca is such a wealth of knowledge and we are so excited to see her featured on this podcast. To listen go to your streaming platform and find - valley nursery plantcast 🌱 or click on the link in our story! 
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