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Joel Salatin Visits Persephone Farm!

October 1, 2015 By Persephone

Joel Salatin speaks at Persephone Farm

Hope everyone got a glimpse of the awesome super blood moon eclipse on Sunday! On that auspicious day, Sept. 27, the Kitsap Community and Agricultural Alliance brought farmer, food system revolutionary and agri-provocateur Joel Salatin to Kitsap to participate in a series of events, including a brunch discussion and the annual KCAA Harvest Dinner, all open to the public.

As part of its outreach mission, KCAA also invited Salatin to our very own Persephone Farm to speak to a group of young and/or beginning farmers and farm interns about issues specifically important to them. Salatin is an engaging speaker and a well-informed and experienced farmer, and had many wise words for the young/ish farmers in the crowd. Among the crowd pleasers: “what makes something a farm?” to be answered, after many guesses from the audience, with the obvious “a farmer!”

Salatin also discussed approaches to overcoming one of the biggest hurdles to starting a farm: the cost of land. His advice included the “three Ms”—make your farm Mobile (to pick up and move if it becomes necessary, just as Persephone once had to do); Modular — build small and add on as you grow; and Management-intensive — that is, rely on human labor over short cuts that are often expensive, petroleum-dependent, and degrading to the environment. Why use a leaf-blower when you can rake? Why use herbicide when you can weed? These are some of the principles Persephone Farm has followed for years. It was a fun and inspiring morning.

— Apprentice Rachel (excerpted from our weekly CSA subscriber email)

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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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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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