[TheUWfarm] swing by the farm tomorrow - 1:30

Hello farmers,

Tomorrow there is a special event happening on the farm. Some people from GreenTV/Magazine would like to film students working at the farm. It would be really great if we had some folks on hand to be working at 1:30 tomorrow. I am not sure they need anyone to speak - only to show up and work and perhaps show off our compost, cob oven, tomatoes etc.

If you can be there we'll all appreciate it.

Thanks!

If you have questions specific to the filming please let me know and I can put you in touch with the folks who are planning it. Sorry for the late notice - I just found out about it myself!

Cheers,
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[TheUWfarm] today at the farm!

Hello everyone, Nina, Joseph, Sylvia, I, and maybe more will be at the farm today working and having a good ol' time. If you want something to do, come down anytime from 10 to 2. There's a lot to be done and a lot of food to eat

p.s. there's fennel in the fridge, come get it!

peace 

Julia

[TheUWfarm] To Do list- 7.27.10

Hey all,

Here's the farm to do list for the week. Hope to see you at the farm!

[TheUWfarm] August Newsletter submissions

Hey all - just a reminder that the farm newsletter will be coming out sometime in early August, and I would welcome submissions! Interesting articles, relevant events, farm-related activities, general reflections....
Send them to me (harveym@uw.edu) or uwfarm@uw.edu.  Thanks!

--
Michelle Venetucci Harvey
University of Washington '11
Community, Environment, and Planning
Environmental Anthropology

[TheUWfarm] Lend a Hand for a Youth Garden Program in Rainier Beach!

 

New Garden Program in Rainier Beach Neighborhood Seeks Volunteers!

The Rainier Beach Learning Garden, one of Seattle Tilth's newest gardens, has served over 500 students this year. Young people are learning how to grow organic food, compost and eat fresh food from the garden. The garden is ready to grow in order to better serve the community. We'd love your help!

 

Work parties are scheduled on weekends starting July 31. If you'd like to participate, we strongly encourage you to attend one of these Volunteer Orientations to find out more about the garden and work parties:

 

Volunteer Orientations for the Rainier Beach Learning Garden

§       Thurs., July 29, 6-7 p.m.

§       Thurs., August 12, 6-7 p.m.

 

We will meet in the Rainier Beach Learning Garden behind the South Shore School and Rainier Beach Community Center. If you drive, park at the school. Find out more…

 

Rainier Beach Learning Garden Community Work Parties 

All work parties are from 10am-2pm at the Rainier Beach Learning Garden.

§       Sat., July 31^st

§       Sun., August 1^st

§       Sat., August 7^th

§       Sat., August 14^th

§       Sun., August 15^th

§       Sat., August 21^st

§       Sun., August 22^nd

 

We will be building new raised beds, pathways, a compost system, a rain swale and themed planting areas. Work parties at the Rainier Beach Learning Garden will be a great opportunity to get your hands dirty and learn from Seattle Tilth staff about building a community garden. Tools and training will be provided.  Find out more about this exciting new garden project.

 

 

 

Liza Burke
Communications & Volunteer Manager
Seattle Tilth

4649 Sunnyside Ave N., Room 120
Seattle, WA  98103
(206) 633-0451 ext. 103
lizaburke@seattletilth.org
www.seattletilth.org

 

Seattle Tilth inspires and educates people to garden organically, conserve natural resources and support local food systems in order to cultivate a healthy urban environment and community.

 

--
Michelle Venetucci Harvey
University of Washington '11
Community, Environment, and Planning
Environmental Anthropology

[TheUWfarm] Aug 7: CAGJ's Annual Dinner coming up!!

Some of the many reasons you & your friends will greatly enjoy this year's event: Beautiful, soulful and energetic Fandango music performed live, along with dancing at Happy Hour while sipping libations and complimentary hors d'oeuvres including oysters....fun street theater about unholy alliances.....delicious, fresh, locally sourced, healthy, organic and fair trade foods.....vegetarian and vegan entrees.....the wisdom and warmth of Ben Burkett, 4th generation African-American Mississippi farmer connecting local and global food politics....goat grown and prepared with love.....chance to support CAGJ by bidding on quilts, trip on a sailboat, CSA box of produce, garden consultation, massage, cheese-tasting on a farm, and much much more...Loki salmon....great brews and wines....red velvet cake, lemon lavender cake, chocolate mousse....followed by gorgeous West Guinean music that will make you want to celebrate! dance the night away! Joy! See you there!

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Community Alliance for Global Justice presents our 4th Annual

STRENGTHENING LOCAL ECONOMIES EVERYWHERE! DINNER

Community Event and Annual CAGJ Fundraiser

Saturday, August 7, 2010

St. Demetrios Church, 2100 Boyer Avenue East, in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle

Join Community Alliance for Global Justice and over 400 local advocates, farmers, food workers, and allied organizations at our 4th annual Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! Dinner to raise awareness about pressing social, economic, and environmental justice issues—as well as to celebrate our own vast pool of resources locally to create lasting change! Help us build community solidarity while also connecting local and global struggles for justice through this fun, engaging and inspiring event!

The Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! Dinner plays a pivotal role in CAGJ's organizing and fundraising efforts. This year, we are thrilled that Ben Burkett will join us as keynote speaker on the topic "Globalize Hope! Globalize Struggle! Connecting US and African Farmers for Food Sovereignty".  Burkett is a 4th generation Mississippi farmer, leader in the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, President of National Family Farm Coalition and active in La Via Campesina, the international movement of peasants struggling for food sovereignty. His talk will address the role of the Gates Foundation in African agriculture, and how farmers are organizing across borders for sustainable, democratic alternatives to the "green revolution" promoted by the foundation.

Sunday August 8th - Farm Bill 2012 Campaign Kick-off! Join us for a Special Workshop with Ben Burkett to discuss how we can make the next US Farm Bill work for all of us!  Time 4 - 6:30pm, potluck following. Workshop is free.  Location: New Hope Baptist Church: 116 21st Avenue, 98122 - Just north of Yesler in Central District of Seattle

Schedule of Events: Happy Hour 4:30-6:00: Enjoy libations, live music with Seattle Fandango Project, complimentary hors d'oeuvres, a Silent Auction, and the opportunity to acquaint yourself with featured food justice organizations and groups promoting community development, food sovereignty and Fair Trade in Africa.  Dinner 6:00-9:00: Enjoy a scrumptious meal featuring dishes from Portage Bay Café,and Kaspar's, in addition to plates prepared by CAGJ's in-house chefs using the bounty of Northwest farmers, ranchers and fisherfolk and select Fair Trade ingredients.  The Dessert Auction featuring 40 different desserts will make your mouth water!  Dancing 9:00 – 11:00 Celebrate the global food revolution with African music and dancing by Naby Camara, & his Band Lagni Sussu!

Tickets: $35 Regular Price, $60 "Support a Farmer/Food Worker": Gives you entry and also ensures that a local farmer or food worker can be one of our honored guests at the event! $10 Kids

Buy tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/107571

 *A limited number of "volunteerships" are available: work trade for tickets to the dinner.  In addition, many volunteers are needed the week of the event, and those assisting the night-of will enjoy a complimentary meal! To sign up, call 206-405-4600, or email volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org

EVENT SPONSORS: Central Co-op's Madison Market, Equal Exchange, Full Circle Farms, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PCC Natural Markets, Real Change, Seattle CISPES, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 21, Washington Fair Trade Coalition

COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Adorable Seattle, Agua Verde Café and Paddle Club, Alter-Eco, American Friends Service Committee, Art & Architecture, Art of Subtlety Photography, Barsuk Records, Big Dipper Wax Works, Bill Seidel's Underground Tour, Black Dollar Days/Clean Greens Farm, Cafe Flora, Canlis, Center for Wooden Boats, Chinook Book, Choice Organic Teas, City Fruit, Clover Toys, Cooper the Photographer Cat, Creativitea, DRY soda, Eat Local, Elizabeth Chaison LMP, Endangered Species Chocolate, Experience Music Project, F/8.3 Photography, FireFly Kitchens, Forest Life Creations, FreeRange Cycles, FRESH, Gluten-Free Girl, Got Soup?, Grand Central Baking Company, Great City, Growing Things Farm, Hoodsport Winery, Hot Cakes, Kaspars Special Events & Catering, Le Gourmand, Lettuce Link/Solid Ground, Local Roots, Loki Fish Company, Mark Isakson, Methow Dog Treats, Mickey McReynolds, Morning Glory, Moving Images, Nash's Organic Produce, Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, Nettletown, Newground Social Investment, Not A Number Cards & Gifts, NW Film Forum, On the Boards, Organically Grown Company, Oxbow Farm, P-Patch Program, PaddyWag Photography, PCC Farmland Trust, Pike Place Brewing, Portage Bay Café, Portage Bay Goods, Puget Sound Sage, Re-Store, Reclaim the Media, Rural Roots, Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, Samish Bay Creamery, Sara Koopman, Schocolat, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Audubon Society, Seattle CISPES, Seattle Food Tours, Seattle Good Business Network, Seattle Tilth, Sightline Institute, Slow Food Seattle, Sno-Valley Tilth, Sol Colibri. Sound Home Performance, Sugarlump Shop, Sustainable Seattle, Tahoma Farms, Tall Grass Bakery, Taylor Shellfish Farms, Ten Thousand Villages, The Bikery, The Charity Stripe, Tools for Change, Urban Goat Justice League, Victrola Coffee, Village Volunteers, Washington Fair Trade Coalition, Washington State Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice, Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network, Witness for Peace, Yes! Magazine, Yoga Life, Zipcar

For more information, or to get involved with organizing, please contact CAGJ: 206-405-4600, contact_us@seattleglobaljustice.org

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Heather Day, Director
Community Alliance for Global Justice
www.seattleglobaljustice.org
206-724-2243
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what about the food we eat and the air we breath?

[TheUWfarm] puget sound stories about food

Hi Friends, 

I thought you and the work you do might be interested in this. 

++Alice

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From: Jamie Yuenger <jamie@freshthemovie.com>
Food Radio Story Ideas in Puget Sound, anyone?
Hello -

My name is Jamie Yuenger and I work for the documentary film FRESH. Before coming to work for FRESH, I worked as a radio producer. 

I've recently become enamored with the Puget Sound region, and I would like to explore the idea of documenting some fascinating food/agricultural stories there.

Do you know of one? Of a series? I'm thinking of feature reports, documentaries or a variety of short audio pieces with great characters.

Do you know an untold story that deserves an audience? 

I'm especially interested in great characters who have a story that lends to a greater truth or reality.

I'd be much appreciative if you could introduce me to someone in the "story." As you probably know, access is an important element to ever "reporting" or documenting something.

Thanks and please be sure to reach me office list at this address: jamieyuenger@gmail.com

Jamie

Jamie Yuenger
FRESH's Theatrical Coordinator
608-397-7722
jamie@FRESHthemovie.com

"If you can eat my cornbread pudding and put down my apple pie, then you sure as hell can help out on this line."

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[TheUWfarm] potatoes harvested!!

Hey ya'll we just harvested a ton of potatoes yesterday and they are ready and waiting to get eaten. They are sitting in two 5 gallon buckets by the picnic table at the farm. Come one and all and take some taters their delicious. Also just a reminder that myself and the interns are around the farm pretty much from 8-2 on Tuesdays so if you want to stop by its a great time to do so.

Nina

[TheUWfarm] Re: City Hall hearing on urban agriculture!

Hey all,

Again, you can all come to support the code change proposal that would encourage urban agriculture this coming Wednesday, July 21st at City Hall (5:30). 

I found a good description here: http://www.seattlegreendrinks.org/events/2010/jul/council-public-hearing-amendments-land-use-code-governing-urban-agriculture 

Also, you can still support this even if you can't attend.

WRITTEN COMMENTS:
For those unable to attend the public hearing, comments will be accepted through 5:00 p.m. July, 21, 2010. Please send comments to: Councilmember Richard Conlin
Legislative Department
600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 2
PO Box 34025
Seattle, WA 98124-4025

>>>>>You could also send me comments BEFORE Wednesday and I'll bring them along. 

Cheers!

--
Michelle Venetucci Harvey
University of Washington '11
Community, Environment, and Planning
Environmental Anthropology

[TheUWfarm] more compost harvesting

hello all,

a few folks came down to the farm last friday to harvest some compost. we only harvested from one bin; there are still two more to go!

if you didn't make it down last week, you have another chance this friday at 10am to come get your hands dirty and learn about compost.

see you at the greenhouse,
ariadne

[TheUWfarm] Seattle Youth Garden Works farm tour and party

You may have seen them selling veggies at U-district Farmers' market. Now excellent news that this job-training program for at-risk and homeless youth has found a way to continue operating in tough economic times by partnering with Seattle Tilth (and Seattle Parks Dept).

Seattle Youth Garden Works joins forces with Seattle Tilth
http://seattletilth.org/about/seattleyouthgardenworks

An opportunity to tour SYGW farm, on the edge of UW campus!

Tour and Party at SYGW farm next to UW Center For Urban Horticulture, Wednesday July 28th
http://seattletilth.org/special_events/farmparty

--Kristin

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[TheUWfarm] City Hall hearing on urban agriculture!

Hey all,

Again, you can all come to support the code change proposal that would encourage urban agriculture this coming Wednesday, July 21st at City Hall (5:30). 

I found a good description here: http://www.seattlegreendrinks.org/events/2010/jul/council-public-hearing-amendments-land-use-code-governing-urban-agriculture 

Also, you can still support this even if you can't attend.

WRITTEN COMMENTS:
For those unable to attend the public hearing, comments will be accepted through 5:00 p.m. July, 21, 2010. Please send comments to: Councilmember Richard Conlin
Legislative Department
600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 2
PO Box 34025
Seattle, WA 98124-4025

>>>>>You could also send me comments BEFORE Wednesday and I'll bring them along. 

Cheers!

--
Michelle Venetucci Harvey
University of Washington '11
Community, Environment, and Planning
Environmental Anthropology

[TheUWfarm] July Teach Out at the Refugee Farmer Project!

Teach Out! Engaging our Local Food Cycle

AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT AND WORK FOR A LOCAL COMMUNITY FARM

Coordinated by the Food Justice Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice

Third Event of 2010! Refugee Farmer Project - Auburn, WA
Saturday, July 31st, 10am-3pm

CAGJ's Food Justice Project invites our members and others to learn about and build connections with key players in the local food region through monthly visits to farms, community kitchens, and community gardens! The site visits will include hands-on work that is needed by or is appropriate to the sites, opportunities to debrief and reflect at the end of the site visit, and calls to action! Each visit will allow for carpool options and many will also feature a bike route guided by a CAGJ member. Through these visits, CAGJ hopes to facilitate a place for the voices of our local food producers to be heard and their knowledge and skills to be recognized and celebrated.

The Refugee Farmer Project is in its second year as an initiative of Burst for Prosperity.  The purpose is to give local refugees a means to develop their own financial security, build assets, and further connect with their larger community.

This year, Somali-Bantu and Burundi refugee farmers are working on a 10 acre piece of land located in Auburn.  They are learning the climate, soil, and markets of their new home and what it means and what it takes to be successful market farmers in the Pacific Northwest. For more information, visit http://burstfarmers.wordpress.com/.

**Please note, space is limited, so RSVP's are required. To sign up, fill out the online form here. If you have any questions, please email Molly at mollyjade@gmail.com. We will send you directions and carpooling details upon receiving your RSVP, as well as information about what to wear and bring. All activities will be appropriate for children and we can work out disability accommodations if needed.

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[TheUWfarm] Come show solidarity for urban agriculture at town hall meeting next week

Hey all -

The Seattle Good Food Network is organizing speakers with a range of interests and experiences to share with Seattle City Council their support of the proposal to make code changes that will encourage urban agriculture.  The hearing is next Wednesday, July 21st, at 5:30 at the City Hall downtown.  The SGFN asked the UW Farm to be represented - I volunteered to speak on behalf of the farm (we will have ~2 minutes).  Who would like to come and show support? It will make an greater impact if I have a good crowd of farmers standing behind me...also, if you would really like to speak we may be able to stretch the time limit a bit to accommodate multiple speakers (but we'd have to coordinate beforehand). 

Anyone can come - but if you are planning to be there, please let me know!!! This would be an amazing change in zoning codes that would encourage urban agriculture all over Seattle! 

--
Michelle Venetucci Harvey
University of Washington '11
Community, Environment, and Planning
Environmental Anthropology

[TheUWfarm] Worm Bin Compost Harvest

Hello world,

Our worm bins are full of amazing compost! Join me this friday at 10am down on the UW Farm for a thrilling expedition into our worm bins to reap the benefits of those red wigglers' hard work: a compost harvest extravaganza!

Learn about some of the compost systems we use on our farm and learn about some ways you could keep a worm bin at home.

If you can't make it at 10, there will be folks working hard throughout the day. Come join the farming fun anytime you can.


red wigglers abound,
ariadne brancato

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[TheUWfarm] [Fwd: [cascadeharvest] GRuB is hiring - 1 FT Position and 2 Americorps Positions, Olympia]

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[TheUWfarm] watering schedule!

Hello Farmers,

It is offically and suddenly summer and our plants are getting dry. I created a doodle poll so we can create a watering schedule. We will mostly be doing hand watering which is a great skill to learn and also a  great opportunity to take some time to observe the progress of plants and what is going on at the farm. We will be watering 3 times (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) a week. There is a lot of space so we will need two people on each day, so don't be shy about signing up for days already selected by people in the doodle poll. Here is the link, http://doodle.com/4eupivir898aktx3 if you are available on any of these days please fill it out, it will only be about an hour of time, and really good way to get involved with the process of summer farming in the usually wet and cool Pacific Northwest.

Happy Heat,
Nina

[TheUWfarm] FARMmonth July - Summer at the UW Farm

FARMmonth Summer Newsletter | July 2010
Upcoming Farm Events and General Information Weekly: Tuesdays at the farm! Lunch, discussion, and farming Pizza Bake Friday, July 9 4 pm _____________ People at the farm this month: Monday - Friday ~8:30 - 1 ___________ UW Farm website UW Farm Blog Send all submissions for summer's monthly newsletter to uwfarm@u.washington.edu During the summer, the newsletter will go out once a month. The next newsletter will go out at the beginning of August ___________ To Do List Everywhere: WATER, WATER, WEED!! (watering is best in the morning or late afternoon/ evening because the sun in the day will suck it all up, we are planning on making a watering chart but for now water the beds where the soil feels the driest the deepest.) Area A: *Harvest: -A7: fennel bulbs: pick and eat biggest one's, leave smaller one's to grow -A1: Onions -A6: Daikon Radish seed pods- try them they're really good!! *Take out Pea plant in A5- roots and all. *Extend long A beds *Use a hose to scrape off aphids on underside of all quinoa leaves- careful of the seeds! *Eat raspberries and strawberries Area B: *Chop in all the cut up cover crop and roots *B9- Stake up fava beans Area C: *Harvest: -C2- Beets -C10- large brassica's- eat leaves! *Sow in Buckwheat where peas were pulled up. *C4- needs water, pick flowers off of Anise Hyssop plant *In the Buckets with the beets alongside greenhouse- look for leaf minors- little white eggs underneath the leave's- rub them off! *C11- Cut out the suckers from the fig tree coming up *C12- direct seed Carrots *Weed the stump by the fig tree that is cultivated for mushrooms- also water the log! *Build a trellis for the kiwi plant growing under the False Quince tree! It really needs it!! * Raccoon-proof the chicken tractor Area D: *Weed around beds D13 and 14- where the wood-chips are *add twine to all tomato trellises where the tomatoes are growing taller than they're supported *Weed area to the right of the Farm sign by the Burk Milpa Bed: *Harvest heads of Lettuce- plant more that is in the greenhouse *Research the pest that is attacking the corn- it is forming symmetrical wholes in the leaves. (Beth says it might be Corn Morer...)	UW Farm Updates *General Note: This is the launching of our new newsletter format. We realize that there may still be glitches that need looked over, and we would appreciate any feedback being sent to uwfarm@uw.edu. And give us a break - we're farmers! Happy Summer! Tuesdays at the farm Message from farm director Nina Arlein: "Anyone who wants to eat a big salad, talk about plants, and work should come to the farm on Tuesday.  I will be there all morning and afternoon, and so will many of the interns. There is a lot growing so we will have a big harvest party and also eat up some of the peas and chard that were left in the fridge!" Pizza Bake This Friday, July 9 Friday the 9th of July we will be lighting the cob oven for our monthly pizza party. The oven will be started at 2:30 pm, and ready to cook pizzas around 4pm. Anyone is welcome to stop by, and we have so much ready to be eaten at the farm! Summer Work People will be working at the farm from from 8:30 to about 1 most weekday mornings. Please check out the to do list in the lefthand column and stop by to help out!  Off Farm Stuff Bike Ride and Picnic with Sightline Institute this Sunday Sightline is a Seattle-based nonprofit environmental research and communications center focused on sustainability in the Northwest region. Join us on your tandem, tricycle, racing bike, fixed gear, or trusty cruiser for a family-friendly, sunny Sunday ride ending with a picnic in Seward park! Sightline Institute's mission is to make the Northwest a global model of sustainability--strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy environment. We hope you can join us! When: Sunday, July 11, 2010. The ride to Seward Park starts at 11:30am. The Ride: Meet at Mount Baker beach for a 3-mile group ride down a car-free Lake Washington Blvd to Seward Park. See a map of the route. The Picnic: Even if you do not ride with us, join us for the picnic! The picnic will be on the south side of Seward Park at Picnic Shelter 4. We will have veggie sausages (donated by Field Roast Grain Co.), chips, and fixings. Pack in any other favorite sunny day picnic supplies, frisbees or field games. No program, no policy, just pedaling, picnicking and plenty of fun! We have been asking people to RSVP so we can have an idea of how many people to expect, either using our facebook page or by emailing me at "nicole at sightline.org" More information and directions: Mount Baker Park: http://www.seattle.gov/parks/park_detail.asp?ID=419 Seward Park: http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/sewardpark/directions.htm Map of the ride: http://tinyurl.com/2bmg8to Sightline Institute: http://www.sightline.org/ Seattle Urban Agriculture; a money-making model? There was an excellent article in the Seattle Times recently that looked into the economic viability of urban farming in the Seattle area. The article looks at two Seattle-based organizations, Harvest Collective and Magic Bean Farm, that are trying to make this a reality. Read full article here. Seattle Considering Allowing Homeowners to Raise up to 8 Chickens This article, printed in the Seattle Times, discusses recent movements to raise the legal number of chickens that Seattle homeowners can own and raise to eight (it is currently set at three). The article looks at how this is related to Seattle's declared "Year of Urban Agriculture" and where this places our city within a national environmental context.  Rediscovery: An Environmental Educator's Institute Adopt-a-Stream Foundation/Snohomish County Parks and Recreation Tuesday - Wednesday August 17 - 18, 2010 The Rediscovery Environmental Educators Institute with Thom Henley offers educators a rare opportunity to fully immerse themselves in experiential learning skills, to develop keener insights into cross-cultural understanding and to discover new ways to bring environmental concepts and lessons into the classroom. Thom will draw from his extensive travel experiences and 30 years of working with youth on Rediscovery programs (www.rediscovery.org) to provide an indoor/outdoor workshop that is both insightful and stimulating. Combining fun with learning, participants will explore: Skills for bonding a group and overcoming initial shyness. The history and theory behind outdoor experiential education. The seven basic concepts of ecology and group activities that demonstrate each. Energy burner activities to prepare hyperactive groups for more formal studies. Acclimatization exercises that help us all connect intimately, in heart-felt ways, with the natural world. Activities that expand our level of cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity for working in multi-cultural classrooms. To learn more and register, visit the streamkeeper website here. Seattle Tilth: Teach Young People How to Grow Food Seattle Tilth is offering an intensive summer session of the Garden Educators Workshop in Seattle, July 19-23. This exciting workshop allows anyone interested in garden education to immerse themselves in the organic garden classroom during a full week of education. Spend five days at Seattle Tilth's community learning garden exploring a wide variety of skills and techniques for cultivating and maintaining a schoolyard garden. We highly encourage teams of three or more people from a school or garden project to attend this workshop to strengthen your program. Garden Educators Workshop - Summer Intensive July 19-23 (Mon.-Fri.), 8 a.m.-3 p.m. At the Good Shepherd Center 4649 Sunnyside Ave N., Room 202, Seattle, WA 98103 $200 Early Bird Registration, $225 (after June 28) Advance registration and payment is required. Register and find more info on our website: http://seattletilth.org/learn/classes-and-workshops/garden-educator-workshops Community Supported Plant Starts Program Coming Soon This is regarding your future Lettuce, (Red) Spinach, Ruby, Cauliflowers, Kale, Romanesco, Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, Collards, Cauliflower, Snow Crown Hybrid, Kohlrabi, Broccoli, and more. One day of sweat equity = hundreds of dollars of food! Creative 4 Communities and Cascadian Edible Landscapes are excited to announce that they will be working to expand the Community Supported Plant Starts program - the first and only of its kind in the nation. Your support is much appreciated. The Goal of this is to turn a 1 season gardener into a year-around gardener through Seattle-grown Plants. Simplified planning. Education. Convenient pick up location. How it works Members Sign up in the beginning of the year and receive between 1- 4 seasonal flat of vegetable starts based on a farmers crop succession. Gardeners get a full flat of the right crops for the right time of the year, taking out the guess work as well as Garden Gnome News full of tips, stories from on the ground (and Ground Up), and some great pieces on food politics and more. More important details include that in addition to healthy locally grown plant starts, members also receive Gnome News, our online newsletter, complete with seasonal garden tips. A flat of CSPS, properly spaced should fill about one 4x8' ft garden beds. One day of sweat equity has the potential to produce hundreds (or thousands) of dollars in food through the fall. This summer, youth from Ground Up will be participating in the growing and caring of some of the plants. So if a high schooler happens to ask you if you want to purchase a mixed flat of veggies, please say yes. Sign Up Now! Click on this link to visit our web site Create an account Log in with the password You'll be asked to validate After validation, log in once more Click 'My Profile' to complete your profile Click 'My Membership' to purchase a membership Click 'My Crops' to specify your crop preferences. Thanks for feeding yourself, your family, community, city, and region and have a great summer.
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[TheUWfarm] chicken care volunteer needed

Dear Farmers,

We have an open spot on the chicken crew for summer. We need someone for the Saturday morning shift. You would get free eggs! Duties take about 10 minutes and include letting the hens out, checking for eggs, refilling food and water, clean up as needed. The hens wake up at dawn and we ask that they be let out no later than 8:30 AM. Don't worry if you will be gone some weekends, it's not a problem to get subs. This position is open to anyone, so if you're not a UW student and want a chance summer is when there is an opportunity for you because all shifts typically get filled by students during other quarters. Please contact me if you're interested.

Thanks,

Kristin

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[TheUWfarm] farm digest notification

Hello Farmers and Friends!
It has recently come to our attention that the farm listserv digest setting was for a monthly volume. Meaning that any person who receives farm email digested only gets them once a month. This is a problem because a lot of the emails we send out are time sensitive. The digest settings have been changed to a daily email. If you have been recieving digested emails and would like to keep farm updates to a minimum you can sign up for the newly created listserv, theuwfarmdigest@uw.edu this will be sent out once a month in the summer and weekly during the school year. Only the farm newsletter, which consists of general updates and big on and off farm food related events and points of interest, will be sent out through this listserv. Sorry for a lack of information for all you digesters.

adios,
Nina

p.s. If you have any problems you can contact me ninarlein@gmail.com

[TheUWfarm] Summer Volunteers?

Hi!

I definitely want to get involved and think that post A-term (after July 21st) in the afternoon would be when; what projects are currently going on, what kind of a typical work day would there be, who all is around etc. etc.

Matt

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[TheUWfarm] in the news

hello farmers,

take a minute to read this article in the arts and sciences newsletter about the farm!

please feel free to pass it along to others.

http://www.artsci.washington.edu/newsletter/July10/index.asp?src=eblastD

Cheers,
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[TheUWfarm] Cob oven pizza bake tomorrow and permaculture garden work party

Hello all!

Just a reminder that tomorrow (Friday 7/9) we'll be having a cob oven firing. So come and bring dough, sauce, cheese, toppings, and even bread to bake in the oven for our monthly pizza potluck. We'll be firing the oven at 2:30 and starting to bake pizzas at 4. I will also be at the farm doing work from 9 onward we can harvest, take out the chicken tractor, and have a work party f in the premaculture garden weeding and hopefully getting our fill of wild strawberries and the newly ripened raspberries. I'll be starting work on the permaculture garden at 11 and the more hands on deck the better. Hope to see you there!

Yee Haw,
Nina

[TheUWfarm] Restoring South Central Farm in Within Reach

Dear UWFarm Friends, Former Students, and Colleagues: Please follow this link for information on the just launched campaign to restore the South Central Farm in Los Angeles. If you saw the Oscar-nominated film, The Garden, you already understand how significant this campaign is to the future of urban agriculture, environmental justice, and food sovereignty. Please join me in this campaign now.

TO JOIN ME, GO TO: http://ejfood.blogspot.com/2010/07/restoring-south-central-farm-is-within.html and then follow the link at the bottom of the blog story.

Devon Pena

[TheUWfarm] COME PLAY AND EAT FOOD!!! To do list

Hello all, there is a ton to be done on the farm as well as a ton to be taken home and eaten!! Right now in the small fridge in the greenhouse (to the right of the big fridge) there is a large black trash bag STUFFED FULL of spinach and chard! Please don't hesitate to come down and take some! Actually, I'm pleading with you all to come get food from the farm! It will suck if any of it goes to waste! And while you're eating, might as well knock one or two of the following tasks off of the to-do-list! 

Thank's, I hope you're enjoying die Sonne!!

TO DO LIST week of July 5th (this will also be posted on the outside of the farm cabinet)

Everywhere: WATER, WATER, WEED!! (watering is best in the morning or late afternoon/ evening because the sun in the day will suck it all up, we are planning on making a watering chart but for now water the beds where the soil feels the driest the deepest.)

Area A:

*Harvest:

  -A7: fennel bulbs: pick and eat biggest one's, leave smaller one's to grow

  -A1: Onions

  -A6: Daikon Radish seed pods- try them they're really good!!

*Take out Pea plant in A5- roots and all. 

*Extend long A beds

*Use a hose to scrape off aphids on underside of all quinoa leaves- careful of the seeds!

*Eat raspberries and strawberries

Area B:

*Chop in all the cut up cover crop and roots

*B9- Stake up fava beans

Area C:

*Harvest:

  -C2- Beets

  -C10- large brassica's- eat leaves!

*Sow in Buckwheat where peas were pulled up.

*C4- needs water, pick flowers off of Anise Hyssop plant

*In the Buckets with the beets alongside greenhouse- look for leaf minors- little white eggs underneath the leave's- rub them off! 

*C11- Cut out the suckers from the fig tree coming up

*C12- direct seed Carrots 

*Weed the stump by the fig tree that is cultivated for mushrooms- also water the log!

*Build a trellis for the kiwi plant growing under the False Quince tree! It really needs it!!

* Raccoon-proof the chicken tractor

Area D:

*Weed around beds D13 and 14- where the wood-chips are

*add twine to all tomato trellises where the tomatoes are growing taller than they're supported

*Weed area to the right of the Farm sign by the Burk

Milpa Bed:

*Harvest heads of Lettuce- plant more that is in the greenhouse

*Research the pest that is attacking the corn- it is forming symmetrical wholes in the leaves. (Beth says it might be Corn Morer...)

Thank's everyone, hopefully I'll see you down at the farm soon!

peace

Julia

[TheUWfarm] Reminder Tuesday Lunch!

Hello Farmers,
Happy 4th! Anyone who wants to eat a big salad, talk about plants, and work on Tuesday should come to the farm. I will be there all morning and afternoon and so will many of the interns. There is a lot growing so we will have a big harvest party and also eat up some of the peas and chard that were left in the fridge.
Cheers,
Nina

[TheUWfarm] pizza party friday july 9th!!

Friday the 9th of July i am planning on lighting the cob oven for our monthly pizza party. i will light it up around 2.30pm, ready to cook pizzas around 4pm. I hope that those folks who are still around seattle for the summer will stop by and make a great meal with me!!! there's so much to eat on the farm right now. we will lavishly dine friday afternoon, so please make an appearance!

thanks!

sarah farr