I would like to remove myself from your very informative and wonderful mailing list.
Thanks,
Kenneth M.
Friday, May 27, 2011
[TheUWfarm] Beekeeping Courses @ UW! (fwd)
Hello Beekeeping Enthusiasts! Beekeeping will be taught at UW Summer term!
This has been in the making for a long time. We need skilled beekeepers to manage the UW Farm hives and we need to address the interest of the public in bees and beekeeping. We are more than ready to address these needs; as the Farm continues to expand, bees will be part of the plan.
There will be two sessions, each different, details below:
"A" Term (June 20th through July 20th)
Biology 399, Biology Internship (Independent Internship)
1 or 2 credits
Evaluation: Credit/No-Credit
Limit: 12 students
Time: T/Th mornings, schedule may vary
Format: hands-on beehive management skills, exercises T/Th mornings or by special arrangement. Occasional field trips. Some 1-on-1 intern tutoring. Most meetings at apiary; inclement weather, Greenhouse or TBA.
Registration: first meet with instructor to discuss individual curriculum, then sign up directly with Eileen O'Connor, 318 Hitchcock Hall
Organizational meeting: Tuesday, May 31st, 7:30 (a.m.), Biology Greenhouse
Statement: this course is meant primarily to train UW Farm personnel in hive management. >>IF YOU ARE IN THIS GROUP PLEASE CONTACT INSTRUCTOR IMMEDIATELY* AND COME TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING!<< Other students will be allowed to enroll as space permits.(We will probably use a Catalyst web site, "Catalyst Web Tool: CommonView" for communicating and document distribution.)
"B" Term (July 21st through August 19th)
Biology 399, Biology Internship [Bees, Beekeeping, & Pollination (formal course)]
3 credits
Evaluation: Credit/No-Credit
Limit: 12 students
Time: T/Th Lecture/Discussion 8:30-10:00; Hive skills, field trips 10:00-11:50
Classroom: We have been given a room in Hitchcock Hall, 4th floor, room # TBA.
Format: lecture and informal discussion and demonstrations in classroom, break, work in apiary or field trips.
Text: TBA + on-line materials
Registration: on-line; Link to course schedule:
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SUM2011/biology.html
Organizational meeting may be held in early July; notice will be sent to enrollees.
(We will be using a Catalyst website as described for the "A" term; enrollees will have automatic access to and notification by Catalyst along with myUW privileges.)
Instructor for both courses:
*Evan Sugden
easugden@u.washington.edu
current office: 118 Johnson Hall
Contact Evan with questions. This will be fun work, let's make it happen!
[TheUWfarm] Seattle City Council adopts Seattle Farm Bill Principles
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
5/25/2011 3:41:00 PM
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Phyllis Shulman, Council President Conlin's Office, 206-684-8805
Megan Coppersmith, Council Communications, 206-615-0061
Laura Lockard, (206) 684-8159
Seattle City Council adopts Seattle Farm Bill Principles, providing guidance to the Federal Government
Seattle - On Monday, the Seattle City Council adopted resolution 31296, supporting the Seattle Farm Bill Principles as policy
guidance to the Federal Government in the renewal of the 2012 Farm Bill.
"One of my main goals as a Councilmember is supporting public health, economic development and protecting our environment, all
essential to the viability and livability of our city and our economy," said Council President Richard Conlin, Chair of the
Regional Development and Sustainability Committee and sponsor of this resolution. "We hope that Seattle's actions will serve as a
model for other jurisdictions, and that they will follow our lead."
Seattle, along with other municipalities, faces multiple health, social, and environmental problems connected to food. In 2007,
up to 11 percent of adults in Seattle ran out of food. In 2008, the incidence of obesity in King County adults was 21 percent.
Currently, 42 percent of Seattle's public school students are enrolled to receive free or reduced meals.
The Farm Bill is the primary piece of legislation that determines our nation's food and agriculture policy and will be renewed in
2012. The 15 Federal Farm Bill titles address important issues including supplemental nutrition assistance programs (SNAP,
formally called food stamps), farm, trade, conservation, rural development, research, and food safety programs.
The policies, programs and funding included in the 2012 Farm Bill will affect how successful Seattle can be in achieving its goal
of strengthening the local and regional food system, improving the economy, and emergency preparedness.
Conlin and other Seattle leaders brought together regional partners and created these principles to help guide decisions by our
elected officials, and make the voice of our community heard. These principles are meant to provide guidance for the development
of policies, regulations, programs, funding opportunities, technical support, and research priorities for a healthy and
sustainable food system supported by the 2012 Farm Bill.
"Good policy decisions involve the individuals and communities they affect and it is important that rural, urban, and suburban
communities all have a voice in determining the policies that directly affect their economic and social well-being," added
Conlin.
For more information on Seattle's Farm Bill Principles, including the regional partners and specific principles, please visit
http://seattlefarmbillprinciples.org/.
_________________
5/25/2011 3:41:00 PM
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Phyllis Shulman, Council President Conlin's Office, 206-684-8805
Megan Coppersmith, Council Communications, 206-615-0061
Laura Lockard, (206) 684-8159
Seattle City Council adopts Seattle Farm Bill Principles, providing guidance to the Federal Government
Seattle - On Monday, the Seattle City Council adopted resolution 31296, supporting the Seattle Farm Bill Principles as policy
guidance to the Federal Government in the renewal of the 2012 Farm Bill.
"One of my main goals as a Councilmember is supporting public health, economic development and protecting our environment, all
essential to the viability and livability of our city and our economy," said Council President Richard Conlin, Chair of the
Regional Development and Sustainability Committee and sponsor of this resolution. "We hope that Seattle's actions will serve as a
model for other jurisdictions, and that they will follow our lead."
Seattle, along with other municipalities, faces multiple health, social, and environmental problems connected to food. In 2007,
up to 11 percent of adults in Seattle ran out of food. In 2008, the incidence of obesity in King County adults was 21 percent.
Currently, 42 percent of Seattle's public school students are enrolled to receive free or reduced meals.
The Farm Bill is the primary piece of legislation that determines our nation's food and agriculture policy and will be renewed in
2012. The 15 Federal Farm Bill titles address important issues including supplemental nutrition assistance programs (SNAP,
formally called food stamps), farm, trade, conservation, rural development, research, and food safety programs.
The policies, programs and funding included in the 2012 Farm Bill will affect how successful Seattle can be in achieving its goal
of strengthening the local and regional food system, improving the economy, and emergency preparedness.
Conlin and other Seattle leaders brought together regional partners and created these principles to help guide decisions by our
elected officials, and make the voice of our community heard. These principles are meant to provide guidance for the development
of policies, regulations, programs, funding opportunities, technical support, and research priorities for a healthy and
sustainable food system supported by the 2012 Farm Bill.
"Good policy decisions involve the individuals and communities they affect and it is important that rural, urban, and suburban
communities all have a voice in determining the policies that directly affect their economic and social well-being," added
Conlin.
For more information on Seattle's Farm Bill Principles, including the regional partners and specific principles, please visit
http://seattlefarmbillprinciples.org/.
_________________
Heather Day, Director
Community Alliance for Global Justice
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http://wwww.seattleglobaljustice.org/food-justice
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Michelle Venetucci Harvey
University of Washington '11
Community, Environment, and Planning
Environmental Anthropology
Thursday, May 26, 2011
RE: [TheUWfarm] AWESOME SUMMER COURSE "utopian visioning for socialchange"
From: theuwfarm-bounces@mailman2.u.washington.edu on behalf of andrea marcos
Sent: Thu 5/26/2011 4:19 PM
To: theuwfarm@uw.edu
Subject: [TheUWfarm] AWESOME SUMMER COURSE "utopian visioning for socialchange"
Hey all farm friends,
in these university settings, how often are you asked, "what do you want?"
how often are we given the space to dream and manifest!?
I'm going to be participating in this really amazing course happening this summer on campus. INFO BELOW!
I took the class last quarter and made some really great friends and learned a lot about what it means to feel empowered and be part of community.
there's room left in the class and i encourage anyone interested to sign up! it's going to be really great and full of BBQs and sunshine and dreaming about what we want in the world, and how we can get it.
if you have any questions, let me know, feel free to email back!!! and spread it around to your friends if you think they'll be interested.
:)
andrea marcos
-------------------
UTOPIAN VISIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
This summer, join a learning community animated by an exploration about how the idea of "utopia" can serve as a practical tool and catalyst for transformative social change!
CHID 480A: Utopian Visions for Social Change
Instructor: Tamara Myers
SLN: 10665 Summer Course
Full Term M&W 2:20-4:30 5 credits :: Counts as a 'Gateway' Course
What does imagination have to do with the pursuit of social justice? What methods are activists using in communities and social movements to identify and articulate their visions of more democratic, just, sustainable, healthy communities? How can envisioning change enable us to better pursue the world(s) we desire?
This course takes a joyful, creative, and proactive approach to the serious and challenging work of envisioning the world we seek as individuals, communities, and movements committed to liberation and justice. We'll engage theoretical and popular texts about the promises and pitfalls of utopian thinking. We'll draw on activist traditions ranging from anarchist, feminist, and racial justice movements (among others) to ask about different conceptions of radical change. We'll explore utopian science fiction and fantasy novels, visit local and distant intentional communities, and examine local and distant activist projects as case studies. We'll hear from many guests involved in communities, organizing, and activism whose efforts are inspired by radical visions of change. We'll engage in a wide range of creative inside and out-of-class methods (visual arts, music, theater, dance, utopian fiction, parades!) to tap into and explore our own individual and collective dreams of social change about a healthier world.
Although we'll be dreaming big, our educational work together will be supported by an ethos of experimentation aimed at cultivating spaces for resistance and reconstruction in the here and now.
(And...we'll have lots and lots of potlucks!)
A little background about my interest in the course's topic: The focus of my graduate work is education for social justice. I look at the ways people try to teach for social justice in different kinds of settings, including in traditional schools (like the UW) and classrooms (like our course), community-based settings (like the housing cooperatives I have lived in and currently live in), and in the context of social movements (like the anarchist, feminist, and racial justice movements I consider myself part of). My dissertation focuses on the importance of imagination for social justice activists/movements and explores how educators and activists help nurture visions of social change in a variety of classroom, community, and movement-based learning communities. Teaching and my own academic work are one facet of my life, but my activism outside the university and my own relationship to the issues we'll explore together are essential to how I teach and learn in the university.
I'm thrilled about the opportunity to facilitate this course again and look forward to learning what a new constellation of students will bring to these topics. If you'd like to be connected with students who took the course this winter to learn about their perspective, let me know - I can help that happen!
Sound interesting? Join us!
Questions? Feel free to contact Tamara Myers at tlmyers@u.washington.edu.
I would love to hear from you!
tamara
in these university settings, how often are you asked, "what do you want?"
how often are we given the space to dream and manifest!?
I'm going to be participating in this really amazing course happening this summer on campus. INFO BELOW!
I took the class last quarter and made some really great friends and learned a lot about what it means to feel empowered and be part of community.
there's room left in the class and i encourage anyone interested to sign up! it's going to be really great and full of BBQs and sunshine and dreaming about what we want in the world, and how we can get it.
if you have any questions, let me know, feel free to email back!!! and spread it around to your friends if you think they'll be interested.
:)
andrea marcos
-------------------
UTOPIAN VISIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
This summer, join a learning community animated by an exploration about how the idea of "utopia" can serve as a practical tool and catalyst for transformative social change!
CHID 480A: Utopian Visions for Social Change
Instructor: Tamara Myers
SLN: 10665 Summer Course
Full Term M&W 2:20-4:30 5 credits :: Counts as a 'Gateway' Course
What does imagination have to do with the pursuit of social justice? What methods are activists using in communities and social movements to identify and articulate their visions of more democratic, just, sustainable, healthy communities? How can envisioning change enable us to better pursue the world(s) we desire?
This course takes a joyful, creative, and proactive approach to the serious and challenging work of envisioning the world we seek as individuals, communities, and movements committed to liberation and justice. We'll engage theoretical and popular texts about the promises and pitfalls of utopian thinking. We'll draw on activist traditions ranging from anarchist, feminist, and racial justice movements (among others) to ask about different conceptions of radical change. We'll explore utopian science fiction and fantasy novels, visit local and distant intentional communities, and examine local and distant activist projects as case studies. We'll hear from many guests involved in communities, organizing, and activism whose efforts are inspired by radical visions of change. We'll engage in a wide range of creative inside and out-of-class methods (visual arts, music, theater, dance, utopian fiction, parades!) to tap into and explore our own individual and collective dreams of social change about a healthier world.
Although we'll be dreaming big, our educational work together will be supported by an ethos of experimentation aimed at cultivating spaces for resistance and reconstruction in the here and now.
(And...we'll have lots and lots of potlucks!)
A little background about my interest in the course's topic: The focus of my graduate work is education for social justice. I look at the ways people try to teach for social justice in different kinds of settings, including in traditional schools (like the UW) and classrooms (like our course), community-based settings (like the housing cooperatives I have lived in and currently live in), and in the context of social movements (like the anarchist, feminist, and racial justice movements I consider myself part of). My dissertation focuses on the importance of imagination for social justice activists/movements and explores how educators and activists help nurture visions of social change in a variety of classroom, community, and movement-based learning communities. Teaching and my own academic work are one facet of my life, but my activism outside the university and my own relationship to the issues we'll explore together are essential to how I teach and learn in the university.
I'm thrilled about the opportunity to facilitate this course again and look forward to learning what a new constellation of students will bring to these topics. If you'd like to be connected with students who took the course this winter to learn about their perspective, let me know - I can help that happen!
Sound interesting? Join us!
Questions? Feel free to contact Tamara Myers at tlmyers@u.washington.edu.
I would love to hear from you!
tamara
[TheUWfarm] AWESOME SUMMER COURSE "utopian visioning for social change"
Hey all farm friends,
in these university settings, how often are you asked, "what do you want?"
how often are we given the space to dream and manifest!?
I'm going to be participating in this really amazing course happening this summer on campus. INFO BELOW!
I took the class last quarter and made some really great friends and learned a lot about what it means to feel empowered and be part of community.
there's room left in the class and i encourage anyone interested to sign up! it's going to be really great and full of BBQs and sunshine and dreaming about what we want in the world, and how we can get it.
if you have any questions, let me know, feel free to email back!!! and spread it around to your friends if you think they'll be interested.
:)
andrea marcos
-------------------
UTOPIAN VISIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
This summer, join a learning community animated by an exploration about how the idea of "utopia" can serve as a practical tool and catalyst for transformative social change!
CHID 480A: Utopian Visions for Social Change
Instructor: Tamara Myers
SLN: 10665 Summer Course
Full Term M&W 2:20-4:30 5 credits :: Counts as a 'Gateway' Course
What does imagination have to do with the pursuit of social justice? What methods are activists using in communities and social movements to identify and articulate their visions of more democratic, just, sustainable, healthy communities? How can envisioning change enable us to better pursue the world(s) we desire?
This course takes a joyful, creative, and proactive approach to the serious and challenging work of envisioning the world we seek as individuals, communities, and movements committed to liberation and justice. We'll engage theoretical and popular texts about the promises and pitfalls of utopian thinking. We'll draw on activist traditions ranging from anarchist, feminist, and racial justice movements (among others) to ask about different conceptions of radical change. We'll explore utopian science fiction and fantasy novels, visit local and distant intentional communities, and examine local and distant activist projects as case studies. We'll hear from many guests involved in communities, organizing, and activism whose efforts are inspired by radical visions of change. We'll engage in a wide range of creative inside and out-of-class methods (visual arts, music, theater, dance, utopian fiction, parades!) to tap into and explore our own individual and collective dreams of social change about a healthier world.
Although we'll be dreaming big, our educational work together will be supported by an ethos of experimentation aimed at cultivating spaces for resistance and reconstruction in the here and now.
(And...we'll have lots and lots of potlucks!)
A little background about my interest in the course's topic: The focus of my graduate work is education for social justice. I look at the ways people try to teach for social justice in different kinds of settings, including in traditional schools (like the UW) and classrooms (like our course), community-based settings (like the housing cooperatives I have lived in and currently live in), and in the context of social movements (like the anarchist, feminist, and racial justice movements I consider myself part of). My dissertation focuses on the importance of imagination for social justice activists/movements and explores how educators and activists help nurture visions of social change in a variety of classroom, community, and movement-based learning communities. Teaching and my own academic work are one facet of my life, but my activism outside the university and my own relationship to the issues we'll explore together are essential to how I teach and learn in the university.
I'm thrilled about the opportunity to facilitate this course again and look forward to learning what a new constellation of students will bring to these topics. If you'd like to be connected with students who took the course this winter to learn about their perspective, let me know - I can help that happen!
Sound interesting? Join us!
Questions? Feel free to contact Tamara Myers at tlmyers@u.washington.edu.
I would love to hear from you!
tamara
in these university settings, how often are you asked, "what do you want?"
how often are we given the space to dream and manifest!?
I'm going to be participating in this really amazing course happening this summer on campus. INFO BELOW!
I took the class last quarter and made some really great friends and learned a lot about what it means to feel empowered and be part of community.
there's room left in the class and i encourage anyone interested to sign up! it's going to be really great and full of BBQs and sunshine and dreaming about what we want in the world, and how we can get it.
if you have any questions, let me know, feel free to email back!!! and spread it around to your friends if you think they'll be interested.
:)
andrea marcos
-------------------
UTOPIAN VISIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
This summer, join a learning community animated by an exploration about how the idea of "utopia" can serve as a practical tool and catalyst for transformative social change!
CHID 480A: Utopian Visions for Social Change
Instructor: Tamara Myers
SLN: 10665 Summer Course
Full Term M&W 2:20-4:30 5 credits :: Counts as a 'Gateway' Course
What does imagination have to do with the pursuit of social justice? What methods are activists using in communities and social movements to identify and articulate their visions of more democratic, just, sustainable, healthy communities? How can envisioning change enable us to better pursue the world(s) we desire?
This course takes a joyful, creative, and proactive approach to the serious and challenging work of envisioning the world we seek as individuals, communities, and movements committed to liberation and justice. We'll engage theoretical and popular texts about the promises and pitfalls of utopian thinking. We'll draw on activist traditions ranging from anarchist, feminist, and racial justice movements (among others) to ask about different conceptions of radical change. We'll explore utopian science fiction and fantasy novels, visit local and distant intentional communities, and examine local and distant activist projects as case studies. We'll hear from many guests involved in communities, organizing, and activism whose efforts are inspired by radical visions of change. We'll engage in a wide range of creative inside and out-of-class methods (visual arts, music, theater, dance, utopian fiction, parades!) to tap into and explore our own individual and collective dreams of social change about a healthier world.
Although we'll be dreaming big, our educational work together will be supported by an ethos of experimentation aimed at cultivating spaces for resistance and reconstruction in the here and now.
(And...we'll have lots and lots of potlucks!)
A little background about my interest in the course's topic: The focus of my graduate work is education for social justice. I look at the ways people try to teach for social justice in different kinds of settings, including in traditional schools (like the UW) and classrooms (like our course), community-based settings (like the housing cooperatives I have lived in and currently live in), and in the context of social movements (like the anarchist, feminist, and racial justice movements I consider myself part of). My dissertation focuses on the importance of imagination for social justice activists/movements and explores how educators and activists help nurture visions of social change in a variety of classroom, community, and movement-based learning communities. Teaching and my own academic work are one facet of my life, but my activism outside the university and my own relationship to the issues we'll explore together are essential to how I teach and learn in the university.
I'm thrilled about the opportunity to facilitate this course again and look forward to learning what a new constellation of students will bring to these topics. If you'd like to be connected with students who took the course this winter to learn about their perspective, let me know - I can help that happen!
Sound interesting? Join us!
Questions? Feel free to contact Tamara Myers at tlmyers@u.washington.edu.
I would love to hear from you!
tamara
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
[TheUWfarm] Fwd: [Biodept] Biology Seminar: Dr. Ingrid M. Parker - TUE
Hi UW Farmers,
I think this upcoming Biology Seminar might be one you will really enjoy!
I hope you can make it.
Fondly,
Beth
Begin forwarded message:
From: Biology Front Desk <frontbio@uw.edu>Date: May 25, 2011 4:31:30 PM PDTTo: Biology Seminars <bio_seminars@u.washington.edu>, Department of Biology <biodept@u.washington.edu>Subject: [Biodept] Biology Seminar: Dr. Ingrid M. Parker - TUEPlease distribute the attached flyer as appropriate.Next week, for our spring seminar series finale, Biology is proud to be welcoming back Dr. Ingrid M. Parker. This will be Biology's first Leaders from Biology Lecture. Contact Dr. Parker's host Haldre Rogers or myself with any questions.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The location for Biology seminars is Hitchcock 132.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Biology Seminar Series Spring 2011* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Leaders from Biolology LectureDr. Ingrid M. ParkerJean H. Langenheim Chair in Plant Ecology and EvolutionDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California, Santa CruzTuesday, May 31, 20114:00 PM SeminarHitchcock 132Title: "The Evolutionary Ecology of Novel Plant-Pathogen Interactions"Abstract: An important question in the study of biological invasions is the degree to which successful invasion can be explained by release from control by natural enemies such as pathogens. Natural enemies dominate explanations of two alternate phenomena: that most introduced plants fail to establish viable populations (Biotic Resistance Hypothesis) and that some introduced plants become noxious invaders (Natural Enemies Hypothesis). Host range and the phylogenetic structure of communities are key factors that influence whether introduced plants will escape their pathogens. In addition, the co-evolutionary dynamics of infection and virulence will strongly influence patterns of disease pressure, which should in turn modulate the role of pathogens in invasions over time. We have investigated these ecological and evolutionary processes in a suite of native and non-native clovers (Trifolium and Medicago) and their foliar pathogens. We have found no escape from natural enemies in this system, with evidence for the potential of adaptive evolution in both the pathogen and the host to alter interactions between plant invaders and their natural enemies.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *To request disability accommodations, contact the Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance of the event. 206-543-6450 OR dso@u.washington.edu* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *--Sarah O'HaraSeminar CoordinatorUW BiologyBox 351800Seattle, WA 98195
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
[TheUWfarm] Farmweek May 23
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Farmweek Newsletter | May 23rd, 2011 | |
Upcoming Farm Events and General Information Tuesday Farm Lunch All quarter, Tuesdays 12:30 pm –1:20 pm at GUG 218 Farm Committee Meetings Education Committee May 23, 4:30 pm – 5:30pm Botany Greenhouse Visioning Committee May 23, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Kincaid 502 Bee Committee May 25, 7.30 am – 8.30am Botany Greenhouse Expansion Committee May 15, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Work Party May 28, 10 am-1 pm _____________ New ways to get farm information! (and blog) Facebook Fan Page - become a fan! ___________ During the academic year, the newsletter will go out weekly on Mondays mornings. ___________ | Trouble viewing this newsletter? View it in the browser here. UW Farm Updates UW Farmer Blog: Blog Posts this Week Be sure to take a look at our farmer blog! Here is an overview of new stuff this week:
While you're at it, become a fan of our Facebook Fan Page, and follow us on Twitter! A Taste of Spring – Fundraiser dinner Want some great food and company? The UW Farm is co-hosting a dinner with UW Anthropology! Tour the UW Farm's expansion at the Center for Urban Horticulture and browse posters highlighting food research by Anthropology graduate students. The evening begins with a wine and appetizer reception, followed by a "farm-to-table" dinner featuring local, seasonal foods prepared with the help of UW Farm and Department of Anthropology volunteers. Molly Wizenberg, UW anthropology alumna, renowned food blogger, Bon Appetit columnist and author, will be the evening's speaker. The night will close with a sumptuous dessert auction. Reserve your spot now! Foraging with Brady Ryan We will be looking at Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) and Sow Thistle (Sonchus spp.) to learn about their biology, edibility, etymology, and general fun nature. Any and all are welcome! Work Party! If you have not been involved with the farm in any way and wish to do so, this is the easiest way to just jump in. Our experienced farmers will be more than happy to show you around and teach you some composting, planting and other farming skills. So come down and get some work done, and have fun under the sun (rains don't daunt us either)! Check out our updated calendar page for work parties, pizza bakes, and committee meetings! Food Justice: A dialogue with Food Justice co-author Robert Gottlieb Monday, May 23rd, 7 PM, Architecture Hall 147 (on the corner of Grant Lane and Stevens Way What is food justice? How would we define it? Is there a food justice movement? When we talk about today's food system, food injustices are ubiquitous. It's where workers in the fields, the meat processing plants, or the restaurant industry face hazardous and exploitative conditions. It's in the low-income neighborhoods that lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises. And it's with our food products that sometimes resemble more of a high calorie chemical mash than a wholesome and healthy product. Opposing these unjust conditions, a food justice movement has taken root, seeking to transform the food system, from field to table. Robert Gottlieb, co-author of the new book, Food Justice, will talk about the strengths and the challenges facing these new and dynamic food justice groups and their organizing efforts, the emerging new politics around food, and the efforts to transform the very language and understanding about food, from how food is grown to why eating has become a political act. YES! Magazine's 15th Anniversary: an evening with Vandana Shiva, Van Jones, and Bill McKibben YES! is an award-winning, independent, nonprofit, print and online publication with a national readership, fusing powerful ideas and practical actions, showing how people are building community-based economics, developing renewable energy, growing food sustainably, moving to nonviolence, and much more. It was recently named "Best Business & Politics Website" in Treehugger's Best of Green Awards, and is currently in the running for the General Excellence and Best Body/Spirit Magazine in Utne's annual Independent Press Awards. Published on Bainbridge Island, YES! Magazine is celebrating its 15th Anniversary with an evening with sustainability and justice visionaries Vandana Shiva, Van Jones, and Bill McKibben. They will speak about opportunities for deep change and our important role as change makers. There will also be a post-program reception in the lobby—with book signing, live music, local drinks, and decadent desserts. Tickets are on sale at Brown Paper Tickets. (Subscribers $15; non-subscribers $25 including a one-year subscription to YES! Magazine) If you can't make it to Town Hall Seattle, you can view the live videostream of the full program here www.yesmagazine.org/celebration For additional information about becoming an event sponsor, or for general questions, email Gretchen Wolf or call 206/842-5009 x201. Follow the buzz on Facebook and Twitter. CoFed - Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive Retreat For more information about CoFed and the retreat see this page. For the application and scholarships available, visit this link. Community Alliance for Global Justice 5th Annual Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere! Dinner For more information, or to volunteer for the event, please call CAGJ at 206-405-4600 or email them. Summer Interns Wanted
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