[TheUWfarm] Sustainable architecture info session!

Hey friends,

Check out this cool info session Feb 6th on sustainable architecture opportunities in Vermont! This was passed on by Sam, one of the friends of the Farm who helped us get our amazing structure built at the CUH site by UW's DesignBuild class. There's free pizza!

P.S. Reminder we'll be at the CUH Farm site for our Friday work doing blackberry removal 12:30-3 if you'd like to come! Reply if so for details.

Best,

Rachel

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Yestermorrow Design/Build School Information Session
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
6:00pm, 208 J Gould Hall, University of Washington

Come find out about opportunities for UW students to learn about sustainable building and design at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont. Yestermorrow's Executive Director, Kate Stephenson, will talk about a variety of ways UW students can learn hands-on skills in design and construction through summer and winter break workshops, internships, and a fall semester program. Current UW students will answer questions about their recent experiences at Yestermorrow. 

Come to Yestermorrow to:
• Gain important hands-on skills developing a real-world project
• Explore concepts of sustainability through practice
• Work with expert instructors who are professional designers and builders
• Add practical and relevant experience to your professional résumé
• Open to college students, recent graduates, and professionals
• The only pre-requisite is self-motivation—no previous architecture or construction experience necessary

Learn more on February 6 at 6:00pm! FREE PIZZA!

[TheUWfarm] (no subject)

Hey everybody! 

We are having our third Green Team meeting tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in the Botany Greenhouse.

We will be focusing on the planting plan for the CUH site, and reviewing the planting plan and seed order for the Botany Greenhouse space. 

Bring your ideas for what the farm should look like this coming year! 

here is a planting calendar to get your creative juices flowing

http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/ppatch/documents/P-Patch_Planting_Calendar.pdf

Cheers, 

-Lane 

[TheUWfarm] UW Farm in sustainable ag article

Hey Farmers,

Check out this lovely piece that a local writer put together for Seedstock.com - a new online resource about sustainable agriculture.

http://seedstock.com/2013/01/11/study-of-urban-agriculture-and-sustainability-grows-at-university-of-washington-student-led-farm/

It features an interview with Caitlin and me - whoah we're famous!

Cheers,
Rachel

[TheUWfarm] Green Team Meeting 3:30pm today

Hello,

Come to Green Team meeting today at 3:30 in the botany greenhouse if you're interested in making the yearly seed order and planting plans! 

Greenly,

Caitlin

[TheUWfarm] UW Farm featured in Environmental Watch!

Hey Farmers!

Check out this link  http://www.environmental-watch.com/profiles/uw-farm-2/  to see the UW farm featured on the Environmental Watch website! This is great for us to be broadcasted to a larger audience and for us to continue growing our reputation. Well done!

Cheers,

June Landenburger

--
UW Farm Outreach Coordinator

[TheUWfarm] Tour of Tours Tomorrow (WED)

Hey everybody!

Just a heads up that the "tour of tours" farm tour guide training session will be held tomorrow (Wed) from 3:30 to 5:30 at the Botany Greenhouse site. All are welcome! Sorry to all those who cannot make that time, feel free to come for just an hour if you can! 

Email Mollie at mollietarte@gmail.com with questions. 

Hope to see you there!

-Mollie

[TheUWfarm] Fridays + MLK day - Farm/CUH service hours!

Hi Farmers,

The Farm needs help completing service hours for the Center for Urban Horticulture in exchange for our space there!

You can be such a big help! Every other Friday starting this Friday, the 18th 12:30-3 pm we'll be down there pulling invasives near the Farm site and/or helping with indoor tasks. Please come join - just one hour of your time will get us that much closer to the 20 h/month exchange rate!

Also, this MLK Day, Monday the 21st from 2-5 pm, a small group from the Washington Conservation Corps is coming down to tour the CUH farm and help with service hours. All are welcome - please come on down! Email me with any questions.

Thanks y'all. Enjoy the sunshine and those hefty wool socks,

Rachel

[TheUWfarm] Fwd: [Wi-dirty12] Green Team meeting!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel Felker <sfelker1001@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:22 PM
Subject: [Wi-dirty12] Green Team meeting!!
To: wi-dirty12@uw.edu


Hey everybody!

Green Team is having its first meeting this Tuesday afternoon from 3:30 to about 5:00 p.m. at the Greenhouse. We are going to start constructing the  planting plan for this coming Spring, Summer and Fall! We will be flipping through seed catalogs, looking at old UW Farm crop rotation plans, and brainstorming companion planting ideas. If you want to help us plan what to plant, grow and eat on the farm this year stop by the greenhouse on Tuesday! If you don't think you can make it to the meeting, feel free to email me anything you want to make sure we plant this year! 

Hope to see you guys there! 

-Lane 

_______________________________________________
Wi-dirty12 mailing list
Wi-dirty12@u.washington.edu
https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/wi-dirty12

[TheUWfarm] Beekeeping Internship with Ballard Bee Company

Hello Fellow Farmers,

    Last year I did an internship with Corky Luster of the Ballard Bee Company and it was amazing. This year I am working for him, and he is looking for a new intern. Attached is information regarding it. If you are strong (can lift 50-100# regularly), hardworking, want to be a beekeeper and have the time, I would look over the attached information and contact Corky. 

Thanks for reading,

Brady Ryan

[TheUWfarm] Information Session for Permaculture and Sgroecology Field School in Colorado (Summer 'A" Term - 2013)

Dear UW Farmers:

I am pleased to invite everyone to the first of two information sessions for our forthcoming Acequia Agroecology and Permaculture Field School to be held in Colorado and New Mexico during the "A" Term of our Summer 2013 Session, which runs June 27 through July 27. I only have space for 21 students this year.

I have attached a course announcement for your convenience. Don't miss this opportunity to study indigenous farming systems and practices with Native American and Chicano acequia farmers. I look forward to seeing you all on JANUARY 25, 1:30pm IN DENNY HALL 401.

Best regards, and please share and circulate this flyer. Post it on Bulletin Boards in your area of the UW if you can.


Devon G. Peña, Ph.D.
2013 NACCS Scholar
Professor
American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Program on the Environment
University of Washington
EMAIL| dpena@uw.edu
UW OFFICE| 206-543-1507
MOBILE| 206-228-4876
NGO WEBSITE| Th! e Acequia Institute
BLOGS| Environmental and Food Justice and History and Politics of Mexican Immigration

"Memory is a moral obligation, all the time."
- J. Derrida

[TheUWfarm] Tour leading workshop this week!

Hey everybody!

Want to improve your public speaking skills? Build your resume? Or just get more involved at the farm? Consider becoming a UW Farm tour guide! We are always in need of more people to lead tours, and you don't have to have any experience with tour giving, and only minimal experience volunteering at the farm. This week we will be having a "tour of tours," which is a workshop on how to lead tours at the farm. 

Even if you don't think you're ready to lead tours yet, but might be interested in doing so in the future, this workshop is for you! The workshop will be 2 hours long and will provide you with a tour giving framework and lots of helpful skills, information and ideas to help kickstart your tour giving career! After attending the workshop, you can sign up to shadow other guides on some upcoming tours to build your confidence before you begin leading tours yourself.

The workshop will take place either this Wednesday or Thursday. If interested, please click here to inform us of your availability on a doodle poll ASAP!

If you have any questions, feel free to email me (Mollie) at mollietarte@gmail.com 

Link to doodle poll: http://www.doodle.com/behpbaqnw83vufbu

[TheUWfarm] Fwd: Just Garden Project Internships

Cool internship opportunity!

TGIF ~

From: "Wendi Jiang" <food@justgarden.org>

Subject: Just Garden Project Internships

Date: January 10, 2013 11:17:01 AM PST

To: <elizaw@uw.edu>

Hi Eliza,

  My name is Wendi and I work with the Just Garden Project. We build subsidized food gardens for low income families in their homes and

  communities every year. We offer several internships and this year I wanted to outreach to students who were studying food systems and who may have an interest in non-profit work. The internship descriptions and application process can be found at:

http://justgarden.org/volunteers/internships/.

  I saw that you teach the UW Urban Farms class so I thought you might be a good person to contact. If you know any students who may be interested in this work, could you please pass this information on to them? Additionally, if you know of other professors, departments etc that would have an interest in this work, would you mind passing their information along?

  Thank you so much! 

 

 

Wendi Jiang
The Just Garden Project
Program Coordinator
AmeriCorps Volunteer

(206) 633-0451 ext. 116
www.justgarden.org

 

 

 

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Elizabeth Wheat, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Program on the Environment
206.550.4622

[TheUWfarm] (no subject)

http://kutahyanakliyat.net/wp-content/duna.php

[TheUWfarm] Fwd: Summer Session 2013 - Permaculture and Agroeology Field Study in Colorado for UW Students! (fwd)

Hi Farmers,

Check out this cool field study course opportunity for the summer while you're snuggled up inside!

-Rachel

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Devon Peña <dpena@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:11 AM
Subject: Summer Session 2013 - Permaculture and Agroeology Field Study in Colorado for UW Students! (fwd)
To: Rachel Stubbs <rachelnstubbs@gmail.com>

Dear Rachel:

It is finally approved and going to happen! Can you please make sure this gets cxirculated to the UWFarm listservb and any other interested students?

Culebra Peak from The Acequia Institute's Rancho de las Dos Acequias, San Luis Valley, Colorado

Dear students, faculty, and staff:

We are very pleased and excited to announce the First Annual Acequia Agroecology and Permaculture Field Studies School to be held in Colorado's high altitude San Luis Valley and northern New Mexico's Rio Grande corridor during the Summer 'A' session running June
24-July 24.

The course is limited to 21 students and will involve travel to an altitude of 8,100 ft above sea level and require the ability to engage in strenuous activities at that altitude and higher as we explore the 80,000-acre wild lands of the mountainous Sangre de Cristo Land Grant commons.

Join us to study with farmers and learn ancient agroecological and permaculture methods and principles through direct experience on America's oldest continuously operated farms held by Native American and Chicano families for generations.

OUR FIRST INFORMATIONAL MEETING WILL BE HELD ON JANUARY 25 (12noon) IN DENNY HALL (room to be announced).

I have attached a course announcement for your reading convenience. Please email Professor Peña if you have any questions.

Please share this message with interested students.

Devon G. Peña, Ph.D.
2013 NACCS Scholar
Professor
American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Program on the Environment
University of Washington
EMAIL| dpena@uw.edu
UW OFFICE| 206-543-1507
MOBILE| 206-228-4876
NGO WEBSITE| The Acequia Institute
BLOGS| Environmental and Food Justice and History and Politics of Mexican Immigration

"Memory is a moral obligation, all the time."
- J. Derrida

[TheUWfarm] Fwd: Grassroots Organizing Internship Opportunities for your Students

 

 

From: Emma Boorboor [mailto:emmab@greencorps.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 3:25 PM
To: Sarah E. Reichard
Subject: Grassroots Organizing Internship Opportunities for your Students

 

Dear Professor Reichard,

I wanted to get in touch with you about internship opportunities on two grassroots campaigns in Seattle this semester. The first campaign is with Food and Water Watch working to mandate labeling of genetically engineered foods. The second campaign is with Corporate Accountability International working to make Mt. Rainier bottled-water free.

Below are two interest forms with a description of each campaign and internship:

Let Me Decide Campaign
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF9DNk9LOEpkQmRlWEI3TXlnS1Jxb0E6MQ

Think Outside the Bottle National Parks Campaign
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF8xWUhaa29lTU9rNGFZT2JIYU5Ld2c6MQ

Can you pass this opportunity along to your students?

Thanks for your time,

Emma Boorboor
Field Organizer
Green Corps
emmab@greencorps.org
856 264 3808

[TheUWfarm] Winter Quarter '13 on the UW Farm

Hey Farm friends,

Read on for information on ways to have fun and make change with the UW Farm during Winter Quarter 2013!

At a glance:

• Farm leadership interest retreat 1/11-13
• CUH Farmsite
• Dirty Dozen
• Credited internships (BIOL 399)
• Green Team
• Outreach
• Bees
  

Best,

Rachel

Farm leadership interest retreat!

Interested in getting more involved with leadership at the UW Farm? Then the winter quarter farm leadership retreat is for you! On the first weekend of winter quarter (Jan. 11th-13th) a bunch of UW farmers will be heading out to a beach cabin on the Hood Canal to talk about leadership, the future of the farm, and just to have a good fun time! We will be heading out Friday evening (Jan. 11th) and folks will be returning on both Saturday evening and Sunday morning. It is about a 1.5 to 2 hour drive, transportation is provided. 

 

If you're interested in coming along, or if you'd just like some more information, please contact Mollie at mollietarte@gmail.com. 

Friday afternoons at CUH

During Winter quarter, Rachel would love to see you down at the CUH on Friday afternoons from 12:30-3:30! Every other week we'll have a group of 3rd grade volunteers helping out, and alternate weeks we'll be working on projects (coldframes? worm bins??). Then come February it'll be time to start seedlings in the greenhouse!!!

Email Rachel at rachelnstubbs@gmail.com for more information

Dirty Dozen

Please email Lauren (laurbear2@gmail.com) if you'd like to be added to the Dirty Dozen

listserve for Winter Quarter! We are currently working on finalizing a time and day, but if you have a preference there is a Doodle Poll you can vote on. This Winter we'll be focusing on learning a lot more about urban farming through discussions about set topics every week. We'll delve into whatever the group is interested in, but can cover anything and everything from plant physiology to GMOs! In addition, with extra down time this winter, we'll work on beautifying projects for the farm, such as making signs for beds or creating more educational signs for the farm. As the season progresses we'll start our spring seedlings as well! 

Farm internships

A few spots are still available for 3-credit internships that involve
reading, discussion, and application of urban agriculture principles,
culminating in an individual project benefitting UW's student farm.
Applicants with some prior UW-farm practical experience are preferred,
since that serves as a motivation for the more conceptual learning that
occurs during weekly meetings.

"JENNIFER RUESINK" <ruesink@u.washington.edu>,

Green Team

If you'd like to be a part of the crop-season planning process, join the Green Team during Winter Quarter! For the first few weeks we will work on finalizing a seed order and a planting plan for the upcoming season. After these immediate tasks are completed, the we will work on larger projects, including compiling a binder to document what is planted on the farm and past years of what has been planted. We'll also review any existing crop rotation plans and think about long term crop planning and rotation ideas. 

We are tentatively setting meeting time for Tuesday or Thursday mornings before 11:30. More info to come. Contact Lauren at laurbear2@gmail.com with some times you're available if you're interested!

Farm Outreach

Contact June and Hilary if you're interested in helping with Farm outreach as we prepare for our busy Spring season. Pizza Bakes, posters, events, and more! The sky's the limit.

 

June Landenburger juniek@uw.edu
Hilary Ratliff hilarr@uw.edu

Bees on the Farm

Contact Danny if you're interested in bee-related activities for Winter and/or Spring.

 

Danny Dawson dawsod@uw.edu