[TheUWfarm] the tide of events!

Hello Farmers!

I will echo Brady's remarks and thank especially Rachel Stubbs and
Jeremy Mineau and the others who built tarp structures and lit the
oven! We are slowly making ourselves known both to the university and
the greater Seattle community. This is good and it also drives home
the point that we need to develop our own strategic plan for development
so that our farm continues to grow in the directions that we as farmers
and students value.

Now is also a good time to start talking about the farm to everyone you
know - this includes other students, faculty and staff around the
university we need to let people know we exist as an organized student
group looking for bigger a space to farm. Growing healthy food and
integrating it into our campus is vital. Will Allen infected many of us
last night with 'the fierce urgency of now'...so I want to leave you all
with something to chew on!

"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are
confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum
of life and history there is such a thing as being too late.
Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us
standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The 'tide in
the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry
out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to
every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue
of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: /*'Too
late.'*/ " - Martin Luther King - Riverside Church, NYC - April 4, 1967

Cheers,
B

--
Elizabeth Wheat
Ph.D. Candidate
Biology Department
University of Washington
e-mail: elizaw@u.washington.edu
web: www.students.washington.edu/elizaw

AND YOU?

There's a child in me
that delights
in butterfly wings,
stained glass windows,
blue-green bottles
and sun - through things.
j.r. rhodes

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