I am sitting know in the center of the Cedar Rock Preserve pondering the role of our farm and the impact it has had on all of us. Right now I am helping teach a course: Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Ecology on Shaw Island at UW's Cedar Rock Preserve.
We recently visited a farm (S&S Homestead) the farmer there suggested that the ultimate measure of a farm's success isn't the produce grown but the farmer it produces. Indeed I think this is the relationship we are trying to cultivate on our own small space in the middle of our urban campus. It isn't just about the produce we grow, but it is about the people we build in the process. It is about the skills we cultivate and the relationships we nurture.
The UW Farm is pleased to offer once again a credited opportunity for people interested in learning more about the farm and the process of growing food in urban settings. This internship - biology 399 is 3 credits. If you are interested in becoming an intern please read the description on the UW Farm Website (www.students.washington.edu/uwfarm) and e-mail me your letter of interest.
If you can't become an intern this quarter please think of it in the future and consider instead becoming on one of our core group of volunteers - a member of the dirty dozen.
If you can't become a dirty dozen volunteer or an intern this quarter there are still plenty of ways to get involved, to grow food and become a small part of the larger movement to support sustainability on our campus. Our work is being recognized in small but important ways: http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201109/coolschools/top10/default.aspx
Thanks to all of you for your efforts this summer and I look forward to seeing many of you back again this fall.
Yours in the Dirt,
Beth
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Elizabeth Wheat, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Program on the Environment
Education Coordinator - UW Farm
206.550.4622
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