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Farmweek Newsletter | October 24, 2010 | |
Upcoming Farm Events and General Information Tuesday Farm Lunch All quarter, T 12:30-1:20 in Anderson 022 Monthly Pizza Bake Next one: Nov. 18th November All Farm Meeting Nov. 3, 5 - 6 pm Botany Greenhouse _____________ New ways to get farm information! (and blog) Facebook Fan Page - become a fan! ___________
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| Trouble viewing this newsletter? View it in a web browser. UW Farm Updates Tomorrow (Monday) at the Farm: Black Walnut Bounty with Brady Message from Brady: Tomorrow (Monday) around 10: am I am going to start processing some of the black walnut bounty at the farm. If you want to help, feel free to come. Anyone who puts in some work can take some nuts home. And if you have strong plastic gloves, I would bring them, as black walnut husks stain like no other. Also, on Thursday I will be doing some more foraging skill sharing. Instead of a walk where we see many plants, I am going to try to focus on 5 plants, trying to find them in multiple life stages, learn a bit of their biology and history and culinary use etc so that we can really feel solid about them, and then try 5 more the next time. Also, if you are interested in more wide ranging foraging exploring that day, email me as I will be doing that as well on my own. Cheers! Tuesday Farm Lunch Topic this Week: the Real Food Challenge (with Sam Ryder and Joe Marcus) More information on our classes page. UW Farmer Blog: Blog Posts this Week Be sure to take a look at our new farmer blog! Here is an overview of new stuff this week:
While you're at it, become a fan of our new Facebook Fan Page, and follow us on Twitter! Fundraising Campaign for the Farm - Help us Spread the Joy! We are beginning a fundraising campaign - and we'd would like send a mailer to our farm supporters. So we are collecting addresses - these addresses will not be shared outside the farm community! We will send this to as many people as possible - you can add lots of people - your parents, aunts, uncles, neighbors - basically anyone you know with $5 to share. Are you inspired to donate? You can do so here right now! And if you can't donate now - help us out by adding some folks to our list of supporters. Here is a link to a form. Add your friends to our list of supporters today! Want to get more involved? Check out our updated calendar page for work parties, pizza bakes, and committee meetings! Seattle Youth Garden Works (SYGW) Work Parties Come lend a hand at the SYGW Farm! We will be putting the garden to bed for the season: composting, planting cover crop, mulching and doing some general organization and clean-up of the site. You will get a chance to see the new .85 acre garden site which is currently a pasture and learn more about SYGW. RSVP by emailing maryvanb8@hotmail.com. Saturday, October 30 from 10 am - 2 pm See the website for more information. Also, come help out at the Rainier Beach Learning Garden! November 1 & 2, 4-6 pm (Help put the garden to bed), and November 20 & 21, 11 am-3 pm (build gabion benches and an arbor) See the website for more information. Seattle Tilth is looking for Garden Teaching Assistances in the Rainier and Rainier Beach Neighborhoods Lead groups of school-age students in hands-on garden activities! We inspire students to connect with the food they eat by engaging them in the entire veggie growing cycle, from seed starting, to caring for the soil and plants, harvesting, cooking and sharing in a meal. Volunteers commit to approximately 2 hours every week to support these fun and rewarding garden classes. · Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30 p.m. at the Rainer Beach Learning Garden or Rainier Community Centers (classes rotate every week) Childcare Garden Classes · Thursdays, 2:45-4:45 p.m. at the Rainier Beach Learning Garden Interested? Email marenneldam@seattletilth.org Puget Sound Regional Food Policy Council Looking for a Policy Intern PSRC is seeking an Intern to provide technical support to professional staff related to the development of a regional food policy needs assessment assist with research, the development of reports, and will respond to the information needs of staff. For full job description and application instructions, see website here and pdf here. Dare to be Square November 5 - 8, Join other UW Farmers in Dance Dare to be Square is right around the corner!! We're so excited to have fantastic callers Bill Martin from Portland OR & Nancy Mamlin from Durham NC on board, along with great musicians Mike Schway + Sandy Bradley, Dave Leddel & Tony Mates, the Atlas Stringband, The Tallboys, & Nettle Honey... along with tons more awesome folks! It will be a great opportunity to learn about calling square dances, playing square dance tunes, or just dancing the weekend away! We've also opened ticket sales for the evening dances, so if you can't make it to the whole event, definitely join us for the Friday 11/5 & Saturday 11/6 evening dances!! These dances will be open to all ages, & no square dance experience needed, lots of opportunity for jamming as well as dancing! Discounts for 18 & under, SFS members, and for attending both nights! There's a Fungus Among Us - Free Event at Botanic Gardens In partnership with the Puget Sound Mycological Society, and with generous support from the Arboretum Foundation, the UWBG is hosting this special event in an attempt to inventory the mushroom species growing at the Washington Park Arboretum. Come join in this scientific scavenger hunt; no experience necessary. Thursday, October 28. Scheduled "hunts" at 10:15 - 12:30, 1:15 - 3:00 pm, 3:15 - 5:30 pm. Public Lecture 6:30 - 7:30: "The Role of Mushrooms in the Ecosystem with Marian Maxwell For more information or to register, visit www.uwbotanicgardens.org or call 206-616-3381 Message from the Friends of the Atlantic City Nursery: Rainier Beach Urban Farm needs your support! A community group in Rainier Beach is proposing turning the abandoned Atlantic Tree Nursery into an urban farm (which is 10 acres!), and is in the process of gaining support from the City of Seattle. After being recommended by the board of the Department of Planning and Development, they are now petitioning the Parks and Green Spaces Levy for funding through an opportunity fund. Read below for information on how to support them tomorrow (with your presence or an email): On Monday, October 25, 2010 at 7:00 pm at the Miller Community Center, located at 330 19th Ave E, Seattle WA 98112, the Parks and Green Spaces Levy Oversight Committee will hold a public hearing on the final list of projects recommended for funding by the Opportunity Fund. Our Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands Project is on the final list! This is our last chance to let the Committee know how wide and deep the support for an urban farm at the former Atlantic City Nursery site is, within the community. We are asking you to show your support by: Attending the public hearing and signing up to give verbal testimony. Sign-up sheets for speaking at the hearing will be available starting at 6:00.
The Parks & Green Spaces Levy Opportunity Fund provides funding for community initiated projects. Parks will award up to $7 million to projects in the first funding cycle of the Opportunity Fund which is part of the $146 million Parks and Green Spaces Levy passed by Seattle voters in 2008. It is critical that the committee hears from you, your voice could make the difference on whether or not, the Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands Project receives a share of this funding from the Parks and Green Spaces Levy Opportunity Fund. Please send your written testimony today! October 25 Public Hearing Location: Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave E, Seattle WA 98112 Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Sign-up sheets to testify available at 6:00 pm) Once again, thank you for supporting the community effort to establish the Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands Project at Atlantic City Nursery. If you have any questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact me. Thank you, Friends of Atlantic City Nursery Friday 10/29 CAGJ Presents: The World According to Monsanto AGRA Watch documented the ties between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Monsanto, and recently exposed the foundation's purchase of 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock. Come to find out why we are so concerned about this unhealthy alliance, and to see how you can get involved in the AGRA Watch campaign! Friday, October 29th 7 - 10 PM Southside Commons (3518 S Edmunds Street in Columbia City, Seattle) FUNDRAISER FOR CAGJ: Sliding scale $5-20 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds) Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and WA wines for purchase! ABOUT "The World According to Monsanto": Monsanto's controversial past combines some of the most toxic products ever sold with misleading reports, pressure tactics, collusion, and attempted corruption. They now race to genetically engineer (and patent) the world's food supply, which profoundly threatens our health, environment, and economy. Combining secret documents with first-hand accounts by victims, scientists, and politicians, this widely praised film exposes why Monsanto has become the world's poster child for malignant corporate influence in government and technology. A film by Marie-Monique Robin (read an interview with the Director by Organic Consumers Association here). ABOUT AGRA WATCH: Join AGRA Watch, a project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice, to view and discuss films every month about issues central to our work: sustainable agriculture in Africa, resistance to corporate globalization, food systems, hunger, international development and aid, philanthropy, and the roles of women. AGRA Watch was founded to monitor and challenge the Gates Foundation's participation in the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), which promotes large-scale industrial farming. AGRA Watch supports socially and ecologically appropriate agricultural practices determined locally by African small-scale farmers and believe that food sovereignty is key to ending global hunger and poverty. For more info, call 206.405.4600 or visit seattleglobaljustice.org/agra-watch
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