Upcoming Farm Events and General Information Tuesday Farm Lunch All quarter, T 12:30-1:20 in FSH 108 Monthly Pizza Bake Next one: TBA February All Farm Meeting Feb. 2, 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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___________ Farm To-Do Now - Jan. 28 General To Do's
- Check in on chickens! Do they have food and water? Do they need to peck at your shoe a little? Did they lay any eggs? Do you have some red cabbage for them?
- Fix the chicken tractor(new wheel/ chicken wire will be in tool cabinet/near chicken tractor)
- Research microgreens/aquaponics operation (farm student paper in book cabinet)
- Remae (cover with white material (found at top of tool cabinet)) all young chard and kale
- Build hoophouses/cold frames(Zach is organizing)
- Wood chip any open unplanted areas that are bare(Ask Keith)
- Finish winnowing wheat
- New site soil testing (Talk with Joe)
- Make sign up list for bringing breakfast to dirty dozen & hang next to volunteer hours list. Add your name to sign up list for breakfast bringing!
- Acquire crock pot for oatmeal?(seems a good idea)
- When favas are big enough, ½ to Quanset & plant other ½ in empty spaces
- Get wood for cob oven
- Continue to combine manure and leaf compost as appropriate
Area A
- I Plant cover crop in brick border bed(favas?)
Area C
- Scrape away sawdust under fig tree and replace with soil and compost
- Worm bin (check for flooding/siphon if necessary. Possibly make and laminate sign to emphasize closing technique for metal lid).
Back 40
- Pull any arum near compost piles and put in in the garbage
- Bee committee (talk with Joe)
- Build more sturdy top for pallet compost bins (awaiting materials)
- Get new compost thermometer?
- Cloches for plots near B-G trail?
| Trouble viewing this newsletter? View it online here. UW Farm Updates New Summer Farm Course: Sustainable Agriculture and Conservation in the San Juans Great news! A new course - "Sustainable Agriculture and Conservation" in the San Juans -will be offered this summer (B term) through the Friday Harbor Labratories. It will be co-taught by Beth Wheat and Carson Sprenger. A course description can be found here.
Applications are due Febuary 1st! This class will be held on Shaw Island, not at Friday Harbor. We are only accepting 15 students. If you are interested and have questions please feel free to contact Beth Wheat. 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
Summer Internships with Real Time Farms - Be a Food Warrior Real Time Farms is currently accepting applications for the first Food Warriors Summer Internship Program. Students who live in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York City, Boulder, and Michigan and who have a passion for local food are encouraged to apply! Internship applications are due February 16, 2011.
Real Time Farms is a social enterprise that aims to bring transparency to our food system. Our online local food guide helps consumers learn where their food comes from, whether eating in or eating out.
Our Food Warriors Summer Internship Program will give interns a deeper understanding of regional food webs, particularly how food is grown and sourced, while documenting growing practices, regional farm information and the relationships between farms, farmers markets, and locally sourcing restaurants.
If you have questions, please feel free to send an email to feedback@realtimefarms.com. 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 Make Money as an Urban Farmer A workshop presented by Sustainable Commercial Urban Farm Incubator (SCUFI) Program. When: February 19th & 20th, 2011, 8am – 6pm, Berkeley, California
Featured Trainer: Custis Stone, of Green City Acres, an urban Small Plot INtensive (SPIN) farm in Kelowna, BC Canada. Curtis will share with you how in 2010 he used the SPIN-Farming®system to build a multi-lot 1/2 acre urban farm that in its six month first season grossed $20,000. If Curtis can do it, so can you! A team of workshop trainers will help you: - Learn how the SPIN farming system and SCUFI program can help you build your own high-income urban farm.
- Hear how the SCUFI program can help you with training, financing, and securing land to launch your own urban farm business.
- Meet people at the forefront of the growing sustainable commercial urban farm field, share ideas, gain knowledge, pool resources and form alliances to build your own profitable urban farm.
Saturday: Indoor lectures and demonstrations at David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA.
Sunday: Outdoor hands-on field and business exercises at an East Bay urban farm site (location TBA).
Farming 6 small urban plots totaling 1/2 acre, Curtis sells to a farmers market, restaurants and a 20 member CSA veggie box program. Moving of veggies, compost, tools and a 400 lb rototiller are all done with a bicycle towing a custom 6' trailer. Before starting his SPIN farm in Fall 2009, Curtis had little experience farming or gardening. Curtis proves the SPIN farming system can be done inexpensively and effectively by people with limited farming or gardening experience. SPIN-Farming is being practiced by a growing community of farmers across the USA and Canada. People taking the two-day training also become eligible to apply for an urban farm training plot at a SCUFI program site in the SF Bay Area or elsewhere. For more details about the 2-day workshop, Curtis Stone and his Green City Acres farm, SPIN, and the SCUFI program, you can view and download:
a one-page flyer
an 8-page brochure
Early registration: $200. After January 31: $250. Snacks, beverages & lunch included Visit here to register. Questions? Email urbanfarms@virtuallygreen.com 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 Zimride, a New UW Rideshare Program Hi wonderful and fantastic farmers! I am a graduate student at the Evans School of Public Affairs and was hoping you could help get the word out about Zimride, the UW's new rideshare program. It's not food-related, but it is a great way of getting around more sustainably, whether to campus or for off-campus trips and excursions when walking, busing, or biking are not (yet!) options. A group of students is working in conjunction with the UW Office of Transportation Services to launch a new ridesharing service here on campus called Zimride. Zimride is a private UW network that makes it easy to share the seats in your car or catch a ride with fellow UW friends and colleagues. The service connects drivers and riders through Facebook as well as its own online forum and can be useful for people who drive regularly to and from campus, or for those who want to coordinate occasional rides on or off-campus, such as to sporting events, ski trips, or even long-distance trips on weekends or holidays. To help make Zimride a successful and active service here on campus, we need your help reaching out to UW Farm folks and others. Can you pass along the message below to your the farm listserv, post on your blog, or otherwise help get the word out? Also, you can check out Zimride and start using it right away. Visit our site and register with your UW NetID. Please let me know if you have any questions, and I'd be happy to provide additional information. Thank you so much for everything you do through the farm, and for helping us create a more sustainable, social, and fun form of transportation for our community. You can contact me at hofferc@uw.edu
-Chris Hoffer
Master of Public Administration Candidate (2011)
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
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