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End of the Season

October 26, 2016 By Persephone

Rainbow over Persephone Farm
A rainbow over our last CSA harvest yesterday.

Happy (last) CSA Wednesday, everybody! What a season! As the CSA wraps up this week, so does our season here at Persephone. Our last official day of work is Friday, then we’ll all move on to our next steps in the next week or so. Looking back over the past 8 months it is really incredible how much this farm has transformed. Brand new areas have been turned into productive farmland, and all of us workers have grown and learned so much valuable knowledge. This week we’re wrapping up any loose ends, getting as much cover crop in the ground as possible, and harvesting our last rounds of flowers and vegetables. The weather today is a nice full-circle reminder of when we got here at the end of February, and the farm is starting to look more and more like it did when we arrived. Our few over-wintering crops are being prepped for colder temperatures to come, some by being nestled in the greenhouses or others by being sprayed with a cold-toughening kelp spray.

Five Persephone farmers posing with flowers
A throwback to one of our late Fridays making bouquets for market as a crew! From left to right, Brian, Kristina, Rebecca, Taylor, and Brooklyn, Persephone crew 2016

We hope that you all have enjoyed sharing in the bounty of the season with us. By supporting our farm you have allowed all of us flower-novices to learn the full cycle of flower growing, harvesting, and arranging — an experience we will all cherish for a long time. We have also all learned so much about vegetable production as well, and have been exposed to delicious regional treats such as pea shoots, sweet turnips and purple sprouting broccoli! From all of us at Persephone Farm 2016, including all of our pollinators like the one below, we would like to thank you for your kind words and continued support, and hope that you have a nice and relaxing winter.

– 2016 Persephone Interns

Farmer Rebecca holding a flower with a honeybee

Filed Under: CSA, News Tagged With: apprentices, CSA, Internship Program, local flowers, Rebecca Slattery

Intern Update: Planting and Harvesting

July 7, 2016 By Persephone

Tomato harvest
The interns’ first tomato harvest!

Hope everyone had a great Fourth of July! We had a lovely day of harvesting salad greens and lavender before our community dinner and fireworks over the water. Over the past few weeks our greenhouse and hardening off tables (where young plants live in between the greenhouse and moving to the great outdoors) have been getting emptier and emptier as the last of our summer crops and successions are moving to their permanent homes. The last plants waiting patiently (some more patient than others) that we have been working on transplanting this week are beans, sunflowers, cauliflower, broccoli, and a few others.

We’re sad to see some of our favorites, such as raspberries, on their way out but are so excited to be learning about new vegetables and flowers! This week us interns learned about harvesting tomatoes, string beans, and summer squash, and soon even more summer delights such as peppers will be on the list! Hopefully our subscribers enjoy some new sights in their boxes this week!

– Intern Taylor

Filed Under: CSA, News Tagged With: apprentices, Internship, Internship Program, tomatoes

Getting ready for the first Bainbridge Market

April 13, 2013 By Leslie

Apprentices Lauren, Cait and Felicia getting the veg ready.
Apprentices Lauren, Cait and Felicia prepping the broccoli & spinach

Today is opening day of the Bainbridge Island Farmers Market. We’ll be there every Saturday, come by, say hello and pickup some of our fine, fresh produce. Here’s hoping next Saturday it will be a little warmer!

Filed Under: News Tagged With: apprentices, farmers market

Welcome New Apprentices

March 7, 2010 By Leslie

Persephone farmers 2010
Joel, Moe, Louisa, Rebecca, Caitlin, Greg

Louisa and Rebecca welcomed the 2010 apprentices, Joel, Mondrian aka “Moe”, Caitlin and Greg. The weather was fine for their first week at Persephone. Welcome to Indianola!

Filed Under: News Tagged With: apprentices, farmers

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WE NEED YOUR HELP! With the summer grinding on we WE NEED YOUR HELP! With the summer grinding on we are looking for volunteers to help us stay caught up with our weeding.. as you can tell by our peppers we are falling behind. 🌶 

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!

Let us know in the comments if you wanna join in! 
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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 😍🍅🥒🫑🌶 

Come out to the @bifarmersmarket this Saturday from 10am-2pm or shop online at @kitsapfresh to get a taste of our summer 🧄🧅🥕
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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 🥦 
 
see you again in the winter cauli 👋
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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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