[TheUWfarm] Will Allen - urban farm leader - speaking at the Northwest African American Museum: June 7 at 7pm

 

Hello all,

We are so excited to partner with Elliott Bay Book Co. to welcome Will Allen to the Northwest African American Museum on June 7.  Please help us get the word out to our food, farming, and social justice friends.

Many thanks,

Kay

 

 

[TheUWfarm] Fwd: [cagj-fjp] 5/30: Farm Bill 101 Workshop at Central Co-op!

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CAGJ-FJP is a listserv to support the Community Alliance for Global Justice's Food Justice Project organizing with meeting & event announcements, resources, and more.

Through political action and anti-oppressive organizing and community-building, CAGJ's Food Justice Project seeks to challenge and transform the globalized, industrial, corporate-driven food system and promote existing alternatives as we join the global struggle for food sovereignty for all!

http://wwww.seattleglobaljustice.org/food-justice

Hey Farmers! I recommend getting involved in this if you can! The food and farm bill is one of the most far-reaching and impactful pieces of legislation. It impacts all of us in more ways than you might imagine. I was volunteering with this group last year and they are great! Take a look!

 

Ross

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Heather Day <hred2011@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Subject: [cagj-fjp] 5/30: Farm Bill 101 Workshop at Central Co-op!
To: Food Justice Project list-serve Project list-serve <cagj-fjp@lists.riseup.net>, Advisory Board <global-advisory@lists.riseup.net>, agraconcern Concern <Agraconcern@googlegroups.com>

<please forward widely!>

Farm Bill 101 Workshop

Wednesday, May 30, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Central Co-op

 

The 2012 Farm Bill is being written right now: Learn about how this crucial legislation affects our health, our economy, and our environment, and connect it to the global food system and food sovereignty. Discuss how citizens can work toward establishing am equitable, sustainable and healthy food system, and take action on site.

This workshop will be held in Central Co-op's community space, and is free for all. RSVP by telephone at 206.329.1545 ext. 215, by e-mailing us, or in person at the Info Central desk. Please include your name, owner number, and a phone number you can be reached at.

This workshop is presented by the Northwest Farm Bill Action Group. Learn more at nwfoodfight.org or by e-mailing them.

 

Please share this opportunity with your networks. See you then!

 

Nell Abercrombie

info central and cooperative advancement

central co-op

1600 E Madison St

Seattle, WA 98122

206-329-1545 ext 215

info@centralcoop.coop

www.centralcoop.coop

 

Help your co-op grow and thrive! We need your feedback in our 2012 Owner Survey, and we're recruiting for our board of trustees. More atwww.centralcoop.coop.

 

 

 

__________________

Heather Day, Director

Community Alliance for Global Justice

www.seattleglobaljustice.org

206-724-2243

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[TheUWfarm] Pizza Bake-CANCELED

Hey everybody,

I regret to inform you that we've decided to cancel this Friday's pizza bake due to some scheduling conflicts. We will probably be holding another in mid to late June, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for any updates on the farm's facebook page or website!

Hope you all enjoy the long weekend anyway,

Mollie

[TheUWfarm] Pizza Bake this Friday!

Hey everybody!

This Friday (5/25) from 3:30-6pm at the Botany Greenhouse site the Farm will be holding the LAST PIZZA BAKE OF THE QUARTER! Don't miss this awesome opportunity to make your own pizza and have it baked to perfection in the Farm's very own wood fired pizza oven. 

If you'd like to learn more about the farm, coming to this pizza bake is a great way to do just that! Provided there is enough interest, we will be giving tours and answering any questions people have about ways to get further involved with the Farm. 

Please bring a topping to share or a $5 donation to help us cover the cost of dough, sauce and cheese! 

There will be tents in case of bad weather, so be sure to show up, rain or shine!

Hope to see you there! 

-Mollie

[TheUWfarm] Summer Quarter: Washington Food Systems Field Class!

Hey farmers and friends! 

The CEP program is offering a field class term A of summer quarter titled Washington Food Systems.  This is an awesome chance to learn more about production and consumption of food right here in Washington! To learn more visit the class website below.

https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/bborn/28516/

Best,

Norah 

[TheUWfarm] Re: Final Yesler Creek Restoration Event - Sat May 19

Just a reminder about a fun & fulfilling opportunity tomorrow. Get outside & enjoy the weather!

On May 4, 2012 12:55 PM, "Jessica Potter-Bowers" <jesspott@gmail.com> wrote:

You are cordially invited to a fun spring work party for UW's Restoration Ecology Network. This is your chance to get outside and get dirty in the name of restoration!

We will be wrapping up this year's restoration project on Saturday, May 19 from 1pm to 4pm, at our Yesler Creek site. Thanks to the good work of volunteers in February and March, we have already removed weeds and installed native plants, including willow and cottonwood live stakes, young conifer trees, and many types of ground cover. Now for the finishing touches! During this work party we will be applying mulch around our new plants, taking measurements of the current vegetation (for monitoring) and creating a unique nature art project: a willow branch sailboat!

Please come join us if you have the time! We provide the snacks, coffee and tools - just bring yourself and some water-proof boots if you have them! Oh, and tell your friends.

Details:

Benefits to you:
Provide a valuable community service
Talk with friends and meet new people!
Learn about plants and local watersheds
Eat and drink free snacks!
Get outside and get dirty!

When:

Saturday, May 19, 2012
1pm-4pm

Where:
Yesler Creek at the Burke Gilman Playground
40th Ave NE & NE 55th Street - Near Metropolitan Market and the Ronald McDonald House

Google Maps link: A) is Metropolitan Market. B) is our work site.
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=5250+40th+Ave+NE,+Seattle,+WA+98105+(Metropolitan+Market+Sand+Point)&daddr=47.666378,-122.283087&hl=en&ll=47.666429,-122.283255&spn=0.004327,0.006008&sll=47.666327,-122.283247&sspn=0.001082,0.001502&geocode=CUJDlOODUmerFeRb1wIdUhi2-CE2SqUS07Vnjw%3B&vpsrc=6&mra=mift&mrsp=1&sz=20&t=h&z=18

Drivers: Park your car at the Metropolitan Market. >From Metro. Market take a left on the Burke-Gilman for 25 yards, take a right at Burke-Gilman Park sign. Party is straight ahead!
Bikers: Use the Burke!!! How convenient! Take a right at the Burke-Gilman Park sign. Party straight ahead!
By bus: From UW, the 65 toward Lake City Wedgewood stops at 55th St and 39th Ave NE. Walk one block east to Metro Market, get on the Burke, right at the Park sign, as above.
Alternatively, the 30 stops along 55th and the 75 goes down Sand Point Way, where you can get off and walk through the park to the site.

What to bring/wear:
Bring your water bottle and your weed warrior attitude! Please wear clothes that you can get dirty/wet and bring RAIN BOOTS. The bottom of the creek is mucky and, from personal experience, I know how easy it is to step in the wrong place and start sinking! Rain boots are clutch! If you don't have any, try to borrow some from a friend, or alternatively, we will have you work on more elevated parts of the site. Feel free to bring gloves if you have some you like; we will provide gloves, tools and snacks for everyone.

Please bring your friends!

--
Jessica (JP) Potter-Bowers
University of Washington Masters in Education student
919/244.3948
jesspott@gmail.com

[TheUWfarm] King Corn Movie Screening - FREE FOOD!

Hey Farmies!

Check out this event happening tomorrow! Should be super fun and informative - if you haven't seen King Corn, I highly recommend it, its very thought provoking.

Love and sunshine,

Bennett

[TheUWfarm] UW Farm Activities this coming Saturday, the 19th!

Hi everyone!  

I heard the workparty this weekend went awesomely.  I can't wait to head down there tomorrow and see everything you got up to!

You may know Lane, one of the Farm interns this quarter.  His intern project is to construct the greenhouse that SYGW got donated to the Farm several months ago.  He is planning on doing so this coming Saturday, the 19th!  If you would like to assist, stop by the Farm on Saturday!  (Lane, please let us know what time is best!)  

~Rae

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Rae Louise Moore <raelou@uw.edu> wrote:

Everyone!  I have a slight, last minute correction!  In order to line up with the Just Garden Project timetable, the workparty tomorrow will be 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM!  Sorry for the mistake.  Hope it's not too much of an inconvenience!  And if you absolutely cannot show up until 11:00, you should still come on by. =)

~Rae

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Rae Louise Moore <raelou@uw.edu> wrote:

Hello, Farmers!

There are two more Saturday workparties this month!

The first is this weekend, Sat the 12th, from 11-3.  It will be lead by the ever-wonderful Rachel Stubbs, and will combine the forces of volunteers from the Just Garden Project with UW Farm students! 
The next, and last UW Farm workparty of the quarter is on May 26th - unlike past workparties, this one will be from 10-2!  Instead of thinking of it as getting up a whole hour earlier, think of it as having a whole other hour to fritter away in the afternoon sun.  I am looking forward to seeing you there.

In exciting Farm news, we had our first harvest at the CUH this morning!  UW Farm Dirty Dozeners bicycled down to the site and helped me harvest, rinse, and refrigerate our overwintered kale, mustard, and lettuce for sale to HFS!  I do believe our dreams are being realized.  Keep your peepers peeled for a blog post about it coming up in the next week.

Stay tuned for summer workparties and volunteer opportunities!

Enjoy the sun!
~Rae
UW Farm Coordinator, CUH Space

[TheUWfarm] Re: UW Farm Workparty!

Everyone!  I have a slight, last minute correction!  In order to line up with the Just Garden Project timetable, the workparty tomorrow will be 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM!  Sorry for the mistake.  Hope it's not too much of an inconvenience!  And if you absolutely cannot show up until 11:00, you should still come on by. =)

~Rae

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Rae Louise Moore <raelou@uw.edu> wrote:

Hello, Farmers!

There are two more Saturday workparties this month!

The first is this weekend, Sat the 12th, from 11-3.  It will be lead by the ever-wonderful Rachel Stubbs, and will combine the forces of volunteers from the Just Garden Project with UW Farm students! 
The next, and last UW Farm workparty of the quarter is on May 26th - unlike past workparties, this one will be from 10-2!  Instead of thinking of it as getting up a whole hour earlier, think of it as having a whole other hour to fritter away in the afternoon sun.  I am looking forward to seeing you there.

In exciting Farm news, we had our first harvest at the CUH this morning!  UW Farm Dirty Dozeners bicycled down to the site and helped me harvest, rinse, and refrigerate our overwintered kale, mustard, and lettuce for sale to HFS!  I do believe our dreams are being realized.  Keep your peepers peeled for a blog post about it coming up in the next week.

Stay tuned for summer workparties and volunteer opportunities!

Enjoy the sun!
~Rae
UW Farm Coordinator, CUH Space

[TheUWfarm] Cool Class Alert: 9-Day Forest Garden Design Intensive, Sep 14-23

Hey farmers!

Check out this cool class on forest garden design, happening in Sept! See links in the forwarded message below. 

Also, don't forget to buy your ticket for the 5 Generations of Farmer's Fundraiser, happening this Saturday at the U-heights center (right by the farmer's market!). To get your ticket, visit the farm's website. 

Hope you're enjoying the sun,

-Mollie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lucas Meserve <lucas.meserve@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Subject: Another course offering
To: Mollie Tarte <mollietarte@gmail.com>


Hi Mollie,
I would like to share another class with the UW Farm.

We will be offering a unique food forest design course with Dave Jacke, author of the award winning Edible Forest Gardens vol I&II.
This will be the only class that Dave Jacke will be teaching on the west coast this year.

The course info can be found at: http://www.manav.org/courses/food-forest/

More information about Dave Jacke can be found at: http://www.edibleforestgardens.com/

There are scholarships available.

Good luck with the end of the quarter!
Lucas Meserve

[TheUWfarm] Fundraiser tickets and donations!!!

Hey friends!

So our fundraiser is only a few days away and we need your help! Now is your chance to buy tickets to what is sure to be an awesome event! Food and fun and dancing galore! Check out our brown paper tickets event to buy tickets and find out more!

If you can't come or you just want to be super awesome, you can donate things! Can you donate a bottle of wine? What about a dessert? How about lending us some serving dishes or a folding table? Please email me at rahnibennett@gmail.com if you have anything you can give!

You're the best! I hope you're all enjoying the sunshine, and I'll see you on Saturday!

Cheers!

Bennett Rahn

[TheUWfarm] King Corn screening

Hey Farmers! Super cool event coming up on campus - check it out!

[TheUWfarm] UW Farm Workparty!

Hello, Farmers!

There are two more Saturday workparties this month!

The first is this weekend, Sat the 12th, from 11-3.  It will be lead by the ever-wonderful Rachel Stubbs, and will combine the forces of volunteers from the Just Garden Project with UW Farm students! 
The next, and last UW Farm workparty of the quarter is on May 26th - unlike past workparties, this one will be from 10-2!  Instead of thinking of it as getting up a whole hour earlier, think of it as having a whole other hour to fritter away in the afternoon sun.  I am looking forward to seeing you there.

In exciting Farm news, we had our first harvest at the CUH this morning!  UW Farm Dirty Dozeners bicycled down to the site and helped me harvest, rinse, and refrigerate our overwintered kale, mustard, and lettuce for sale to HFS!  I do believe our dreams are being realized.  Keep your peepers peeled for a blog post about it coming up in the next week.

Stay tuned for summer workparties and volunteer opportunities!

Enjoy the sun!
~Rae
UW Farm Coordinator, CUH Space

[TheUWfarm] Final Yesler Creek Restoration Event - Sat May 19

You are cordially invited to a fun spring work party for UW's Restoration Ecology Network. This is your chance to get outside and get dirty in the name of restoration!

We will be wrapping up this year's restoration project on Saturday, May 19 from 1pm to 4pm, at our Yesler Creek site. Thanks to the good work of volunteers in February and March, we have already removed weeds and installed native plants, including willow and cottonwood live stakes, young conifer trees, and many types of ground cover. Now for the finishing touches! During this work party we will be applying mulch around our new plants, taking measurements of the current vegetation (for monitoring) and creating a unique nature art project: a willow branch sailboat!

Please come join us if you have the time! We provide the snacks, coffee and tools - just bring yourself and some water-proof boots if you have them! Oh, and tell your friends.

Details:

Benefits to you:
Provide a valuable community service
Talk with friends and meet new people!
Learn about plants and local watersheds
Eat and drink free snacks!
Get outside and get dirty!

When:

Saturday, May 19, 2012
1pm-4pm

Where:
Yesler Creek at the Burke Gilman Playground
40th Ave NE & NE 55th Street - Near Metropolitan Market and the Ronald McDonald House

Google Maps link: A) is Metropolitan Market. B) is our work site.
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=5250+40th+Ave+NE,+Seattle,+WA+98105+(Metropolitan+Market+Sand+Point)&daddr=47.666378,-122.283087&hl=en&ll=47.666429,-122.283255&spn=0.004327,0.006008&sll=47.666327,-122.283247&sspn=0.001082,0.001502&geocode=CUJDlOODUmerFeRb1wIdUhi2-CE2SqUS07Vnjw%3B&vpsrc=6&mra=mift&mrsp=1&sz=20&t=h&z=18

Drivers: Park your car at the Metropolitan Market. >From Metro. Market take a left on the Burke-Gilman for 25 yards, take a right at Burke-Gilman Park sign. Party is straight ahead!
Bikers: Use the Burke!!! How convenient! Take a right at the Burke-Gilman Park sign. Party straight ahead!
By bus: From UW, the 65 toward Lake City Wedgewood stops at 55th St and 39th Ave NE. Walk one block east to Metro Market, get on the Burke, right at the Park sign, as above.
Alternatively, the 30 stops along 55th and the 75 goes down Sand Point Way, where you can get off and walk through the park to the site.

What to bring/wear:
Bring your water bottle and your weed warrior attitude! Please wear clothes that you can get dirty/wet and bring RAIN BOOTS. The bottom of the creek is mucky and, from personal experience, I know how easy it is to step in the wrong place and start sinking! Rain boots are clutch! If you don't have any, try to borrow some from a friend, or alternatively, we will have you work on more elevated parts of the site. Feel free to bring gloves if you have some you like; we will provide gloves, tools and snacks for everyone.

Please bring your friends!

--
Jessica (JP) Potter-Bowers
University of Washington Masters in Education student
919/244.3948
jesspott@gmail.com

[TheUWfarm] Application Deadline Extended to May 7: The Culture and Politics of Food in Italy (fwd)

Study Abroad: The Culture and Politics of Food in Italy
Fall Quarter 2012 at the UW Rome Center

The Application Deadline has been extended to May 7. Please contact Ann
Anagnost (anagnost@u.washington.edu) for further information or check out the
program brochure at:

http://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10949&Type=O&sType=O

Discover Food Traditions
• Artisanal Food Production
• Cooking and Cuisine
• Food and Regional Identity

Learn about Contemporary Food Politics:
• Farmer's Markets
• Community Supported Agriculture
• Urban Farming
• The Slow Food Movement
• Anti-GMO Activism
• Global Food Policy

Earn Anthropology Credit
• Anth 411: The Culture and Politics of Food in Italy (12 credits, also
eligible for MAGH credit)
• Anth 499: Independent Study (optional 3 credits)

Learn More:
Program Director: Professor Ann Anagnost (anagnost@u.washington.edu)

Program Website:
http://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10949&Type=O&sType=O

[TheUWfarm] Urban Farmers needed!

I am looking for some urban farmers to help grow my business this summer.
GoGo Green Garden was established in 2007 and is an edible gardening business where we build, plant and tend gardens for city people in their backyards, front yards and rooftops. We have added some awesome clients this year with lots of space and are looking for a few extra hands to pitch in and help sow, grow & tend throughout summer and fall. We also want to support burgeoning environmentalists, farmers and food lovers! There is potential for growth and a long-lasting work opportunity for any go-getters.

Urban farming position pays $12-$20/hour DOE, and scalable as the season wears on. It is helpful if you have some simple tools, but not required. You should know basic gardening terms (sow, propagate, till) and principles (season extension, vertical gardening, etc), be familiar with seasonal plantings and have a general working knowledge of how to grow food. No new gardeners, please. All gardens operate organically. All gardens are in King County. Please send your desired work situation (hours, days, etc) and a resume and/or short paragraph about why you want to urban farm this summer to: amyp@gogogreengarden.com

THANK YOU!
amyp

--
Amy Pennington
gogo green garden ~ homegrown goodness
www.gogogreengarden.com
www.urbangardenshare.org
206.571.5646

Garden updates & Food for Thought: www.twitter.com/gogogreengarden