Farm to Plate: Part V

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when many Portlanders were still lost in the haze of leftover turkey sandwiches, a trio of Portland Farmers Market staffers hit the road for a one of a kind experience: a stewing hen harvest day at Persephone Farm.  We invite you to follow their adventure through a series of posts [...]

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Farm to Plate: Part IV

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when many Portlanders were still lost in the haze of leftover turkey sandwiches, a trio of Portland Farmers Market staffers hit the road for a one of a kind experience: a stewing hen harvest day at Persephone Farm.  We invite you to follow their adventure through a series of posts [...]

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Farm to Plate: Part III

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when many Portlanders were still lost in the haze of leftover turkey sandwiches, a trio of Portland Farmers Market staffers hit the road for a one of a kind experience: a stewing hen harvest day at Persephone Farm.  We invite you to follow their adventure through a series of posts [...]

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Farm to Plate: Part II

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when many Portlanders were still lost in the haze of leftover turkey sandwiches, a trio of Portland Farmers Market staffers hit the road for a one of a kind experience: a stewing hen harvest day at Persephone Farm.  We invite you to follow their adventure through a series of posts [...]

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Farm To Plate: Part I

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when many Portlanders were still lost in the haze of leftover turkey sandwiches, a trio of Portland Farmers Market staffers hit the road for a one of a kind experience: a stewing hen harvest day at Persephone Farm.  We invite you to follow their adventure through a series of posts [...]

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Green on Red: Christmas Tamales

Essay by Aaron Gilbreath When I told an old friend that you know it’s Christmas time when the tamales appear by the dozen in your refrigerator, she asked how you know when it’s Hanukkah time. “When there are eight tamales on your plate,” I said. She lives in Georgia now, but we both grew up [...]

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Ignorance is a Gift

Article and Photos by Elizabeth Miller Last year, when flipping through a magazine at my parents’ house sometime right around the holidays, I came across the most astonishing picture I’d ever seen.  Crisp brown edges of something, dripping with molten cheese of some sort, every nook and crack bursting with what looked to be cream [...]

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Holiday Meals: Frozen Fruit Salad

by Leslie Gilman For most of my childhood, I had no idea that “fruit salad” could possibly mean anything other than the corn-syrupy goodness that emerged from the shadowy depths of a can of Dole’s Tropical Fruit Salad. And if it did exist, I certainly didn’t want it – not without the slippery peaches, translucent [...]

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Rhyme and Reason

If you’ve ever stopped by the information booth on a Saturday morning at our PSU Market, chances are you’ve seen this man.  Robert Barncord is an essential member of the PFM team. For years he has been a superstar volunteer for our organization, donating countless hours of his time at the market and our office.  [...]

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What Lies Beneath

So root vegetables aren’t the sexiest of vegetables. Why, I don’t know; sometimes they’re round and blushing with a tinge of purple. Maybe they call to mind an era of the poor suffering bland boiled fare. Sure, this overlooked lot lacks the caché of blatantly vibrant bell peppers or the lacy frill of frisée or [...]

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