Upcoming Farm Events and General Information Tuesday Farm Lunch All quarter, T 12:30-1:20 in FSH 108 Monthly Pizza Bake Next one: Jan. 20th January All Farm Meeting Jan. 12, 5 - 6 pm Botany Greenhouse _____________ New ways to get farm information! We have a website! (and blog) Facebook Fan Page - become a fan! ___________
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___________ | Trouble viewing this newsletter? View it online here. Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service! Work hours are up on the calendar page - come volunteer Mon-Fri. UW Farm Updates Pizza Bake this Thursday, January 20! 3:30 - 5:30 Stop by the farm for some dancing and pizza, straight out of our outdoor cob oven. Everyone welcome! UW Farmer Blog: Blog Posts this Week Want to get involved in a committee? Now's your chance! It's the start of a fresh quarter, and the perfect time to start getting your hands dirty. We have a compost crew, outreach team, green team, chicken crew, and vision team, all ready for you to jump right into. For more information, check out each committee page on our website, and find contact information for our committee leaders here. Want to get more involved? Check out our updated calendar page for work parties, pizza bakes, and committee meetings!
Off Farm Stuff
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshops (Information from Lettuce Link) Even though the garden is quiet and the trees are bare, it's time to start thinking about fruit tree care. Remember - healthy trees equals healthy fruit! We'd like to recommend the following opportunities to learn more about caring for your fruit tree: Clean Greens-Food "Justice Starts With Us" with Guest Speaker Brahm Ahmadi Time: January 29, 2011 from 6pm to 10pm
Location: Garfield Community Center, 2323 East Cherry St. Seattle, WA 98122
Organized By: Lottie & Magie
Clean Greens Farm and Market is happy to announce our first annual 'Food Justice Starts with Us' Dinner Event, taking place on Saturday, January 29, 2011. The goal of this event is to raise funds for Clean Greens' food justice projects, as well as to raise awareness of the food access issues that our local communities face.
For our first-ever fundraising event, we will be serving a meal cooked with local, seasonal foods by members of the Clean Greens community. Clean Greens welcomes Brahm Ahmadi, co-founder of People's Grocery in Oakland, CA, who will be giving a keynote on Oakland's food justice movement. Towards the end of dinner, a short film on Clean Greens' ongoing food justice work will be premiered. After dinner, we will be having a dessert auction, and guests can enjoy their dessert while listening to a local jazz band perform.
Founded in 2007, Clean Greens is a food justice organization that is owned and operated by residents of Seattle's Central District. Our mission is to decrease the incidence of disease in our communities by increasing residents'access to healthy, pesticide-free produce at affordable prices. We are committed to delivering clean produce to all people in our communities, which we grow on our 22-acre farm in Duvall, Washington, and distribute via our Central District farm stand and CSA program. *also looking for volunteers for the event. Please contact Magie or Lottie Buy tickets here See more details and RSVP on CleanGreens Seattle Tree Fruit Society Grafting Workshop and Other important Information The next STFS meeting will be a Grafting Workshop. We will not be having the Spring Fruit Show as such this year - it will be spread between 2 events. One will be the Grafting Workshop on Feb 12th and the other part will be a Spring Lecture Event slated for May 14th. Another important news item:
- There will be no scion wood from Mt. Vernon this Spring. What we need is for you to bring scionwood that you have, labeled with variety, to the Feb 12th Grafting Workshop. STFS February 12th - Grafting Meeting/Workshop and Potluck, 9 am - 4 pm
Location: Cedar Valley Grange, 20526 - 52nd Ave W. Lynnwood, 98036 (Very near Lynnwood Park & Ride) Take Interstate 5 exit 179 (220th St SW), turn RIGHT on 220th go about a ½ mile, then turn LEFT onto 52nd Ave W, go almost a mile, the grange is on your LEFT. Easy.
Schedule:
9am to 11:30 Grafting Techniques Class
taught by Greg Giuliani, Gil Schieber, and Bill Davis
11:30-12 Potluck
12 – 4pm Hands-On Grafting Workshop: (Greg Giuliani, Gil Schieber, and Bill Davis), Create your own tree
For Sale at Workshop: Rootstock, Scion wood, grafting knives, grafting tape, bands, sealant,all you need for grafting your own tree! You can bring the items you have or scion wood to graft a special tree for yourself. Mason Bees For Pollination Class Saturday, January 29, 10 am – noon
Phinney Neighborhood Association: 6532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103 (location tentative)
North America is in the midst of a pollination challenge with the honeybees; our fruit and garden crops suffer as result. Native, non-aggressive mason bees can dramatically increase fruit yields while improving the entire city ecosystem. Take action on the pollination challenge in your neighborhood by learning to manage mason bees. In this class, you'll learn how to be successful in raising mason bees, you'll see fun techniques to try in your yard, and you'll receive hands-on experience with harvesting mason bees. Instructor Dave Hunter has been working with mason bees for nearly 20 years. He has been partnering with US scientists, University researchers, the ARS/Logan Bee Lab, and multiple experts across the country to help gardeners become more aware of their pollination requirements. He recently opened the internet www.crownbees.com to assist gardeners with successfully raising mason bees. Visit the website for more information Best Regards,
Jill Eikenhorst
City Fruit Coordinator
206-783-2244
www.cityfruit.org Antechamber Collective Social Justice Summit, Today! It's finally time: Today on Monday, the 17th, or MLK Day, we are holding our launch meeting for the Social Justice Summit. At 6pm in Mary Gates 206, we will finally be bringing together all the people from various activist groups we have been talking to around campus. We want this first meeting to be a chance for all of us to meet one another and familiarize ourselves with our respective interests and projects. This will also be our big brainstorming meeting: we will look at the basic proposal for the forum and then build on it collaboratively.
For those of you who are not clear on the Social Justice Summit idea, the initial proposal is below.
So come today to share your ideas and learn about other socially-conscious students and their work. There will be snacks involved.
In solidarity,
the Members of the Antechamber Collective Description: The Antechamber Collective a group at the University of Washington (Seattle campus) interested in exploring the interconnectedness of the multitude social and ecological problems and various local groups working in the Seattle area to address them. We want to discuss with your group the potential of participating in a social/ecological justice summit at UW Seattle. The purpose and form of this summit is multi-faceted and open to being shaped by those who choose to participate. From the perspective of us in the Antechamber Collective, the purpose is to build direct action organizing capacity through increased communications and mutual visibility and understanding among the many different groups on campus and in the Seattle area. We have no particular agenda ourselves, save promoting a culture of solidarity and humble exploration among all activists fighting for Justice. Thus, to us, the summit is to represent--in a public manner--the capacity of the People in our area to democratically manifest common action without the limiting guidance of the conventional political mechanisms.
Concretely, we will make this happen by way of an organizing committee--to meet every other week through this Winter--composed of individuals from activist groups of all kinds. We are visiting different groups to discuss this idea and to get contact information of people who are interested in being part of this committee or at least being the contact point for your group re anything to do with this organizing process.
It is important for us to emphasize that we are approaching this as a learning experience and practical networking endeavor. We hope to learn a lot about not only organizing in this process but also about the various terrains in which people are fighting for justice, the complexities of different particular struggles and especially how these different struggles are connected to each other. We hope that you will join us in working toward a climate of greater collaboration and complementarity in the fight for a better world and invite you to voice any concerns or questions you have in regard to this proposal before deciding to participate in this process. Registration is now available for the Real Food Challenge Seattle Conferences on January 22nd and 23rd! In Seattle, we're putting on TWO one-day Real Food Challenge Northwest Leadership Conferences for students interested in learning about institutionalized food justice issues and taking on the challenge! The trainings will unite students working on (or getting ready to start) real food campaigns on their campuses! The Conference schedule is tentative as follows:
Saturday and Sunday, Jan 22nd and 23rd:
8 - 9: Registration and complimentary pastry breakfast
9 - 930: Opening and Group Welcome: Expectations and Agenda
930 - 1030: Stories from the Real Food Challenge: The Real Food Wheel
1040 - 11: Introduction to the Real Food Challenge
11 - 12: Foodservice 101: An Intro to the Foodservice Industry
12 - 1: Social Lunch: Provided
1 - 2: The Real Food Calculator: An Intro to Auditing School Food Purchases
215 - 3: Outreach and Messaging Basics: Role Playing and Getting to Work
315 - 5: Campaign Planning: A Guide to Campus Campaigning
5 - 530: Kuleana and Closing: Success Stories of RFC
6: Special Community Dinner at the UW Farm
The conference will be held on the UW campus at the Botany Greenhouse (found off of the Burke-Gilman Trail). Spaces are limited to 25-30 students for each day.
Only $10 per person per day gets you complimentary breakfast and lunch, a day of leadership and campaigning workshops, and meeting other students from other Seattle and Western WA schools working on similar issues at their prospective schools.
Go to the Real Food Challenge website to register today!
Don't miss out on: - New friends and allies from the Western Washington region!
- Delicious meals with real food!
- Applicable and FUN workshops on organizing, campaign planning, and the struggle for justice in the food system!
- Having a solid plan so your group can hit the ground running when school starts this fall!
For questions about the conference, please contact Samantha Ryder, the Northwest Regional Field Organizer for the Real Food Challenge, at sameliza@u.washington.edu Hope to see you there! Real Food Challenge
Northwest Regional Field Organizers
realfoodchallenge.org
northwest@realfoodchallenge.org Presentation about Full Circle Farm: A meeting for CSA Members and an invitation to New Subscribers Wednesday, Feb 2 from 11:15 AM to Noon in Visitors' Dining Room of UW Tower For nearly a year, we have had weekly deliveries of organic produce & other goods coming to the UW Tower from Full Circle Farm (FCF). The boxes of produce are ordered by employees here so that they don't have to make an extra shopping trip. They also are contributing to the sustainability of a local farm and other organic farms in a network of mutual support. Several things have changed since we started this, both on the farm and at the tower drop-off site. Learn more about the options and updates from FCF representative Michele Catalano. She'll address current subscribers, as well as those who may be interested to start. If you are someone who wants to hear more about how our community is supporting organic growers, you are invited to attend. Gather in the Visitors' Dining Room at 11:15. For those who wish to stay on, there's a brown bag (BYOB) lunch and further discussion until 1:00. Please RSVP to foodcycl@uw.edu if you plan to attend, or call Syd for more info, 543-1537. Permaculture Design Course: Learn permaculture design, food production, and energy efficiency February 27 - March 20, 2011
Wild Thyme Farm, Oakville, WA
Instructors: Marisha Auerbach, Dave Boehnlein, and Kelda Miller
Special Guests: Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski, Jenny Pell, Rick Valley, Leonard Barrett, Mark Lakeman, John Henrikson, Kirk Hansen & more...
Globally, we are experiencing unpredictable changes in climate, economy, and resources. Through intentional design, we can anticipate what adaptive skills will be necessary for a joyful and abundant future. In this permaculture design course, students will be immersed in strategies to build community resilience and respond to uncertainties of the future. Our stellar teaching team will offer a 144-hour permaculture curriculum with a focus on hands-on skill-building in food production, plant propagation, and energy systems. The Wild Thyme Farm, a premier permaculture demonstration site, offers an immersion in examples of beautiful and productive polyculture gardens, a 100 acre FSC certified forest, and strategies for rural revitalization. Through presentations, slides, games, lectures, field trips, and hands-on opportunities, this permaculture course will offer diverse learning styles to emphasize ways that students can design their lives and engage their communities in s!
trategies for a sustainable future.
COURSE TOPICS:
* Permaculture Ethics & Principles
* Observation & Site Analysis
* Energy Conservation
* Natural Cycles & Pattern Recognition
* Mapping & Design Exercises
* Animal Husbandry
* Forests, Agroforestry, & Tree Crops
* Soil Building & Ecology
* Cooperative Economics
* Plants, Propagation & Planting Strategies
* Eco-Building & Appropriate Technology
* Water Harvesting, Management, & Conservation
* Urban Permaculture & Village Design
Cost: $1950 including accommodations and prepared organic meals.
Early bird registration: $1800 by January 15, 2011
Click here for more information Teach Out! Engaging our Local Food Cycle: An Opportunity to Learn about a Local Co-op First Event of 2011! Central Co-op, coordinated by the Food Justice Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice
Saturday, January 22nd, 10am-2pm
Please support our commitment to alternative transportation methods by biking, walking or taking public transit to this event!
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! 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.
CAGJ's Food Justice Project invites you to join us in visiting Central Co-op, who has made CAGJ a Community Partner for the past couple of years! Can your cooperative grocery store be an agent and an ally in the struggle for food justice? Come to learn about what Central Co-op does to promote access to land and food, and fair lives for those who do food work. Join Central Co-op and the CAGJ Food Justice Project to help us think about our cooperative purpose, mission, vision and values, through a food justice lens.
**To RSVP, please email Molly. We will send you directions and details upon receiving your RSVP. All activities will be appropriate for children and we can work out disability accommodations if needed. Regional Food Policy Council Meeting The Regional Food Policy Council will meet on Friday, January 14, 2011 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon in the PSRC Board Room at 1011 Western Avenue, Suite 500, Seattle, WA. The agenda is available at on their website. |
