[TheUWfarm] UW Farm Newsletter for December 9th

Farmers,

We hope everyone is having a wonderful finals season. We remind you that Farm volunteer hours and meetings will also break over the holiday, resuming in Winter Quarter. 

Here's what's happening in and around the Farm this week:

MERCER COURT IS GETTING GROW LIGHTS! We're setting up a stellar micro-green growing operation at the Mercer Clubhouse. Come by Tuesday from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm to help set them up and learn about growing indoors. 

Farm Ed with Professor Ruesink meets Thursday from 8:30-9:30am in the Botany Greenhouse.This weeks topic: Find out how to cheaply measure microclimate temperature and look at the temperatures of compost piles and cold frames.

   

Still have room in your Winter Quarter schedule? Join us next quarter in a conversation about urban farming on our campus and beyond. Farm Lunch is a 1 credit seminar series in which we will explore what it takes to become a successful urban farmer on our campus and else where.  It will provide a unique opportunity to connect the work of growing food on campus with the larger context of our food system and its current environmental challenges. Farm lunch ENVIR 495B will be offered next quarter from 12:30 to 1:20 in ACC 120. You can register for it or just show up and participate.   We look forward to an active conversation and a dynamic, community centered learning environment. If you have a topic you would like to present or an idea you would like to explore during this time please contact Elizabeth: elizaw@uw.edu. Hope to see you there!

And finally, thanks to everyone for braving the cold last week to work at the Farm, we couldn't do this without you! Check out the pictures from the Arboretum work party.