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CSA Orientation & First Pickup of the Season, June 7

May 22, 2017 By Persephone

Our CSA orientation is June 7, 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 received an email from Rebecca with additional details.)

Farmers with freshly harvested radishes

Shares 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!

fresh tender peashoot

 

 

Filed Under: CSA, News

CSA Begins June 7 & Shares Still Available!

May 4, 2017 By Persephone

Sooner or later the rain will stop, right?

The peas will inch up their waiting trellises, the carrots will be more than orange threads and the dahlias will burst above the soil surface. No one knows better than the farmers what an UNUSUAL spring this has been.

The intrepid interns and I have been suiting up in our raingear and heading out into the fields in anticipation of the start of the CSA on June 7th. Surely there will be bounty by then. Lots of vibrant green goodness!

We’d love to have you join us for another season of Community Supported Agriculture. Your subscription keeps our little farm chugging along.

Sign up here!

Or, if you’re ready for an early season infusion of freshness, come on by our booth at the Bainbridge Island Farmer’s Market on Saturdays between 9-1. There you can pay by cash, check or credit card and take advantage of the 10% subscriber discount.

Rebecca and the interns brave the soggy spring weather.

We’d love to see you and introduce you to the wonderful new team of aspiring young farmers: Sean, Amanda, Chelsea and Mackenzie, all hailing from points East. You can do me a favor and assure them that, yes, it does eventually warm up and become beautiful in the Pacific Northwest. I think they’re starting to worry the gray skies will never lift and our boots will remain permanently attached to our feet.

New this season are some gloriously beautiful new flower varieties, the return of our cherished French Pink garlic, English shelling peas, several hefty heirloom tomatoes we’ve never grown before and the installation of a new well!

Please tell your friends about Persephone. Your referrals will be rewarded with an extra box of veggies. And our heartfelt gratitude.

Thank you for supporting local farming,

Rebecca and Team Persephone

Filed Under: CSA

Governor Jay Inslee at the Farmers’ Market

April 18, 2017 By Persephone

Governor Jay Inslee and Rebecca at the Persephone stand.

Look who stopped by our stand at the Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market last week!  Governor Jay Inslee was asking for ideas on how to spruce up his leek soup recipe.  We were happy to provide some inspiration!  We’ve got lots of spring greens, leeks and flowers.  Come visit us at the market Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Cheerful flowers on the opening day of the Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: farmers market, Governor, Inslee

Spring Recipe: Nettles

April 18, 2017 By Persephone

Now is the time to forage (carefully!) for nettles or find them at the farmers market. Thanks to Marcia Newlands for bringing this spring recipe to our attention!

Nettle Risotto

(Serves 2 as a main, 4 as an appetizer)

Blanched, nettles will keep their emerald loveliness even after a good 15 minutes of cooking, which makes this risotto visually stunning. The dish itself is pretty simple: Risotto rice, cooked nettles, butter, shallot, garlic, a little pecorino cheese and beef stock. The basic structure of this risotto holds with all sorts of variations. You could use a different grated cheese, such as parmigiano or a Greek mizithra.

Note: Depending what variety your nettles are, you will need four or five big tongs-fulls of fresh nettles to get your cup of cooked nettles. Regular nettles (urtica dioica) are more substantial than their daintier cousins, the dwarf nettle (urtica urens) and retain more of their volume when cooked. I say tongs-full because you do not want to pick up fresh nettles, as they will sting you. Thus the name.

1 cup risotto rice

1 cup cooked, drained nettles or spinach (see note above)

2-3 tablespoons unsalted butter

2-3 tablespoons grated pecorino cheese

1 large shallot, minced

3 minced garlic cloves

4 cups chicken, vegetable, or beef stock

Salt

Get a large pot of water boiling and add a handful of salt.  Add the nettles. Stir and boil for 1-2 minutes for dwarf nettles, about 5 minutes for regular nettles. When done cooking, dump them into a big bowl with ice water in it. Once they are cool, put them in a colander to drain. Put the nettles in a clean tea towel and twist to squeeze out as much moisture as you can. Chop the nettles finely (a food processor will turn them mushy). The finer you chop, the smoother your risotto will be. Remove any stray stems.

To make the risotto, heat 2 tablespoons of butter in a large heavy pot set on medium-high. Wait until the butter stops frothing and add the shallot. Cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring often. Add the garlic and rice and stir to combine. Stirring constantly, cook for a minute or so or until all the rice is well coated with butter. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and the first cup of stock. Turn the heat to high and stir in the rice. When it starts boiling strongly, turn the heat down to medium and stir often, at least every minute or so, until the rice absorbs the stock. Repeat with a second cup of stock. When the second cup is absorbed, add the nettles and the third cup of stock. Stir well to combine. Keep stirring constantly to develop the creaminess in the risotto. Taste the risotto, and add salt if needed. It may need the remaining cup of stock, as you want the dish to be loose.  Add the butter and cheese and cook for an additional 4-5 minutes, stirring often. Serve at once.

recipe by Marcia Newlands, The Savory Gourmet

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: arugula, chickweed, nettles, ramps, risotto, watercress

I’m in Time Magazine!

December 16, 2016 By Rebecca

Rebecca in Fidelity Ad with Fidel Castro on Time Magazine cover

It was wild to get a call that Fidelity Investments wanted to use my image for an ad campaign! You just never know what’s going to come your way. The ad is in this week’s Time Magazine, the one with Fidel on the cover!

Here’s the story: last summer, a fashion photographer from NYC, Brian Doben, contacted us and asked if he could shoot some pictures at Persephone for a personal project he calls the “At Work” project. www.atworkproject.com

He seeks to photograph people in all sorts of occupations who are passionate about their work.
That sure fits us; so we said yes.

Here are a few images from our day together.

Happy female farmer
Photo by Brian Doben Photography
Female farmer tending the crops
Photo by Brian Doben Photography

Out of the blue, a year later, Brian contacted me again and this time asked for my permission to have one of the images used by Fidelity. I guess, rather than feeling old (a retirement ad? Really? Me? Already?) I should look at the message as a positive one: if you plan now for your retirement, you too, could be living the dream of owning a beautiful small farm, dirty fingernails and all.

BTW that score of 81 is bogus. I never even took the test. It’s just an ad!

But, in case you’re wondering, yes they did pay me for the picture. And I gotta say, it was easier money than bunching the equivalent amount of carrots.

Feel free to contact me for more modelling gigs. ;-)

Livin the dream,
Rebecca

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Time Magazine

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As an old volunteer once said, “the food tastes better when you get your hands dirty”. We stand by this motto and would love your helping hands. Please contact us via email at Persephonefarm@gmail.com or by phone!

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Summer is rocking an rolling on the farm! With the Summer is rocking an rolling on the farm! With the heat in full force we get to see the fruits of our labor! And oh boy it is abundant 😍🍅🥒🫑🌶 

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We’re looking back to the LAST of the cauliflowe We’re looking back to the LAST of the cauliflower which was only LAST WEEK!!! 👀 Look what our BI got last week! Cauliflower is one of our specialties and we are excited that we can still give it to our subscribers this late in the year 😜 while it has been a cold year we can rejoice in the cauliflower 🥦 
 
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Our CSA is at its halfway mark and we still have r Our CSA is at its halfway mark and we still have room for more shares! Our subscribers get delicious produce each week; full shares get a bouquet every week and half shares get a bouquet every other week! 💐 

Join our CSA through the link in our bio or email us for more information! 🥦🥕🥬🍆🌶🥒🍅
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