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The Weekly Dirt View this email in your browser The Weekly Dirt Community Pot luck Join the UW Student Food Coop and the UW Farm for a Spring Community Potluck in our Mercer Clubhouse on 5/8 at 6:30pm. Come meet people over great food. Please bring a dish to share. Everyone is welcome! Sign up here. CoLAB on Food Research at the UW We are really excited to be co-sponsoring the CoLAB discussion series. Collaborating with Strangers workshops connect UW students, faculty, and researchers during 3-minute speed meetings. Participants exchange and generate ideas, building new partnerships to start or improve upon research projects. It might otherwise take you years to meet the people you'll connect with during one-on-one conversations. Details and RSVP here. Jr. Farmer Leadership Folks interested in teaching kids about farming and sustainable agriculture, and/or would like to lead field trips at the Farm, give us a shout at theuwfarm@gmail.com.  Video Production Calling video production experts, we need your help creating a promotional video. Compensation will be in (a lot) fruit and veggies. If interested please email theuwfarm@gmail.com. [Course] ENVIR 495 - The Urban Farm -  What?  A three credit class with information, practical hands on work, and inspiring ideas for the aspiring Urban Farmer! When? - Summer A Term - Tuesdays - 12 to 5 with one weekend (required) field trip and service learning at the UW Farm. Why?  It is a great opportunity to learn more, make connections and get involved with urban farming on campus and beyond. [Job] Skylight Farms Farm hand Skylight Farms is a startup 20 acre non-certified organic-practices farm looking for seasonal farm hands to assist in all day-to-day operations and fieldwork. They have room for both experienced and inexperienced workers. Positions are open beginning early April and run through October or November. To learn more visit www.skylightfarms.com   Spring Quarter Volunteer Hours Botany Greenhouse: -Monday: 8:30-12 Mercer Court Apartments: - Wednesdays: 10am-1pm -Thursday 10am-1pm (NEW!) - Friday: 12-3pm Center for Urban Horticulture: -Tuesday: 9a-12pm - Thursday: 3-6pm - Friday:2-5pm Work Parties (various): -Every other Saturday We've got so much going on at the Farm, check out some highlights from this week. Copyright © 2014 The UW Farm, All rights reserved. You are receiving the UW Farm weekly newsletter Our mailing address is: The UW Farm 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA Seattle, WA 98105 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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The Weekly Dirt View this email in your browser Hello Farmers! Here's the Weekly Dirt Volunteer Party Volunteers, join us Saturday 4/26 at our CUH site from 10am-3pm for a day of farming. Video Production Calling video production experts, we need your help creating a promotional video. Compensation will be in veggies. If interested, please email theuwfarm@gmail.com. Pot luck We are holding a community potluck in our Mercer Clubhouse on 5/8 at 6:30pm. Come meet people over great food. Please bring a dish to share. Everyone is welcome!  American Farmland Trust Speaker Series The American Farmland Trust is hosting a Speaker Series on Urban Agriculture on Tuesday, April 29th from 6:30 to 8 PM at the Asgard Tasting Room in Fremont. Becky Warner of City Grown Seattle and Jacqueline Cramer of the Beacon Food Forest will be presenting on food systems, urban agriculture, and permaculture. RSVP to Kate at kdelavan@farmland.org   In honor of Earth Week, please join the UW Wildlife Society, UW Farm, and UW Beekeepers for an exclusive showing of the critically-acclaimed film "More Than Honey!"  Showtime will be Friday April 25th at 4:30 at the Physics and Astronomy auditorium. UW bee honey-buttered popcorn and honey-sweetened tea will be served. A suggested $5 donation will support the maintenance of our campus hives.  We want to thank everyone that braved the elements with us this Saturday at our Mercer work party. Check out our Farmers getting down and dirty here. You guys rock! Copyright © 2014 The UW Farm, All rights reserved. You are receiving the UW Farm weekly newsletter Our mailing address is: The UW Farm 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA Seattle, WA 98105 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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The Weekly Dirt View this email in your browser Hello Spring! Here's the Weekly Dirt: Mercer Volunteer Party We're in full swing at all our Farm sites, join us Saturday 4/19 from 10a-3p for a full day of fun in the sun at Mercer Court. Sign up here. Farm Ed Farm Ed is happening every Monday at 8:30am in the Botany Greenhouse. See a list of this quarter's topics below. Future Farmers Do you like kids and hanging out at the Farm? We need volunteers to help with 3rd grade field trips! No prior teaching experience necessary. We need folks Wednesdays, 5/7 and 5/21 from 12:30-2:00. If you are interested contact Lauren at laurbear2@gmail.com. Eat for Equity Check out this event from our friends at Eat for Equity: Benefiting Organization: May 1st Action Coalition  When: Sunday April 27th Where: El Centro de la Raza When: 11:30 am, we're doing brunch! Cost: sliding scale, suggested donation $20-25 (but we are always pay-what-you-can)   Thanks to everyone for making our first pizza bake of the year a big success! Check out more pics here. Spring Quarter Volunteer Hours Botany Greenhouse: -Monday: 8:30-12 Mercer Court Apartments: - Wednesdays: 10am-1pm - Friday: 12-3pm Center for Urban Horticulture: -Tuesday: 9a-12pm - Thursday: 3-6pm - Friday:2-5pm Work Parties (various): -Every other Saturday A big Thank You to the UW School of Public Health and Engineers without Boarders for lending their time and energy to help us break ground on our new greenhouse. Click here to see our progress. Spring Quarter Farm Ed Topics 4/14: Soil tests and how to read them 4/21: Soil organic content, bulk density, and field capacity 4/28: Grafting - tomato chimeras 5/5: Soil preparation: Double-digging, tilling, mulching, the pros and cons 5/12: Soil-plant relationships by plant family - what do different plants do and need? 5/19: The soil microbiome: meet the microbes 5/26: Memorial Day 6/2: Tackle the terminology - intensive, permaculture, organic, holistic, biodynamic, sustainable 6/9: Medicinal plants - come learn how rosemary can improve your memory and lemon balm can relax you, just in time for finals This is a Text Block. Use this to provide text...

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The Weekly Dirt View this email in your browser Mercer Volunteer Party We're in full swing at all our Farm sites, join us Saturday 4/19 from 10a-3p for a full day of fun in the sun at Mercer Court. Sign up here. Evening of American Folk Dance Our Compost Czar Kay is hosting a folk dance night on April 18 from 7-10pm at the UW South Campus Center, room 316. Try your hand (and feet) at a wide range of American folk dance: from square dances, contra dances, polkas, waltzes to schottisches. Fiddler Sarah Comer will be leading a new Old Time strings band, backed up by guitarist David Cahn, and Tony Mates will be calling. Admission is by donation. For more information, visit http://hspafolkdancenight.weebly.com/ Compost Crew The Compost Crew will meet at the Botany Greenhouse every Monday from 10-11am. We have an active worm bin right now, so bring your compost from home (coffee grounds, fruit and veggie leftovers, old newspapers, stale cereal grains, etc.). Wear comfortable shoes and clothes (dress for the weather). Questions? Contact Kay at chaik@uw.edu. Future Farmers Do you like kids and hanging out at the Farm? We need volunteers to help with 3rd grade field trips! No prior teaching experience necessary. We need folks Wednesdays, 5/7, 5/14, and 5/21 from 12:30-2:30. If you are interested contact Lauren at laurbear2@gmail.com. Pizza Bake The inaugural pizza bake of 2014 will be held April 11th at the Botany Greenhouse from 4p-7p. This is a great way to get to know your fellow Farmers and chow on some oven fired 'zaw. Sign up here.    Spring Quarter Volunteer Hours Botany Greenhouse: -Monday: 8:30-12 Mercer Court Apartments: - Wednesdays: 10am-1pm - Friday: 12-3pm Center for Urban Horticulture: -Tuesday: 9a-12pm - Thursday: 3-6pm - Friday:2-5pm Work Parties (various): -Every other Saturday Copyright © 2014 The UW Farm, All rights reserved. You are receiving the UW Farm weekly newsletter Our mailing address is: The UW Farm 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA Seattle, WA 98105 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences