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The First Supper Quarter glasses of wine in half pint mason jars, Left by those who had their fill. Hazy visions of friends who wore smiles and Massaged their cheeks, sore with laughter, As if perfection came at no great cost. The farmer stands alone Looking out past the incodescent bulbs
So you wanna know what our Endless Summer CSA is all about? Watch the incredible video that Juliet Zulu put together for us below. So proud to be born and raised in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Here’s to an Endless Portland Summer! http://vimeo.com/27270805
could they be more adorable.
our favorite pastime
“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.” -Wendell Berry
We would like to welcome the most optimistic of fruits, the strawberry. Thanks strawberry, for reminding us of innocent summers and starlit skies.
“When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.” – Steve McQueen
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The trouble with pine nuts is that they’re nearly impossible to toast consistently (and of course, they taste so much better roasted than raw). Each time I’ve browned a batch, I’ve tried a new “technique” – on a Silpat in the oven on low heat, over low flames in a skillet, in a toaster oven – but no matter what I’ve done, half of them are always bitterly charred, and I have to pick my way through the batch one precious seed at a time. In this third recipe of our weekly video series, I’ve finally learned a solution to The Pine Nut Problem. You can cook them in frothy butter, risotto style, stirring continuously for just a few moments until they’re perfectly golden……
In 1985 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London published its “Good Design Guide”, a collection of the “100 most beautiful products in the world”. One of those products is the Opinel knife. It is also exhibited by the New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) as a masterpiece of design, alongside other industrial objects which have defied time. The simple but ingenious design, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century or more, is widely felt to have made the Opinel into something of a design classic.
Opinels are light to carry and not expensive to replace if lost.The models with carbon steel blades do require a certain amount of maintenance (regular sharpening and oiling of the blade to prevent corrosion), but if looked after well they will last a long time, and the steel blade and wooden handle acquire a pleasing patina with age. One of the foremost advantages of this simplicity of design and manufacture is the low price – other “classic” knives such as theLaguiole and Nontron knife are very expensive – which makes it possible to own several knives, perhaps in different sizes, colours or materials. The Opinel is cheap enough to be marketed in boxed presentation sets or as a corporate gift. Some owners even use their knives as raw materials for their own creative efforts, decorating the wooden handle with pokerwork or carving it into fantastical designs of their own invention. Opinel created the “Opinel wide handle” models aka “les ébauche” to cater to knife carvers. The traditional beech handle takes stains well, and is easily worked to a person’s liking with common sandpaper.
-Article from Wiki
A little thank you to all those who have supported Portland CSA farms
As a hard-working, mostly human-powered farm, we put hand tools, crates, knives, jeans, flannels, bags, gloves, boots, wagons, watering cans, etc… to the test. So when we recommend something and share it with you folks you can be confident that it is simply the best of what’s out there. When selecting an item we focus on three things quality, style and sustainability. Today we are standing behind the Apolis Market bag. Apolis, which translates as “global citizen,” is a living and breathing social enterprise that equips and empowers people through opportunity instead of charity. Apolis co-creates products with manufacturers and directly allows the market to determine the future of each item we produce. It is a hands-on model to provide people access to opportunity. We…
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