[TheUWfarm] Summer Baking Day!

Hello all!

Summer quarter is quickly coming to a close - and what a better way to
celebrate it than with a lovely gathering of friends! Saturday, August
20th from 12:00 - 4:00 there will be a Baking Day event around the cob
oven - join us for pizza, scones, bread, cookies, and all sorts of
tasty foods that can be made in the oven featuring fresh farm foods.
Bring any raw dough, veggies, eggs, fruit, pizza toppings, and fun to
contribute! Professor Evan Sugden's bee keeping class will also be
teaching us about harvesting honey from the hives! So bring all your
friends and an appetite for both delicious treats and good times!

Best,

Kelly (a UW Farm summer intern)
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[TheUWfarm] SYGW mentoring at the new shared Farm!

Hello Farm community,

This is a great opportunity to work alongside high-school age youth at the UW Farm and Seattle Tilth's shared new space this Fall! See below for details.

Best,

Rachel

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We are starting our search for mentors for the fall season at the farm
and we'd like to extend an invitation to you to apply. I've attached
both an application and an information sheet. The season starts Tuesday,
September 13 and runs through Friday, October 28. Mentors are needed
Tuesdays, Thursdays and/or Fridays, 3:15-7:00. Mentors are asked to work
one or more consistent shifts per week, for the duration of the season.
Applications are due Wednesday, August 17.

Please plan to attend an upcoming Seattle Tilth general volunteer
orientation. The next one is Tuesday, September 13, 6-7:15 p.m. in
Wallingford. Information about additional orientations, as well as a
general Tilth volunteer application (required for anyone volunteering
with Seattle Tilth in any capacity) are here:
http://seattletilth.org/get-involved/volunteer/index_html

All prospective mentors are required to attend "The Ropes: Understanding
and Engaging Youth Homelessness" a three-hour training sponsored by the
University District Service Providers Alliance, of which SYGW is a
member. The next training is Wednesday, August 10 (*tomorrow*), 6pm -
9pm at the University Presbyterian Church. There is a September training
tentatively scheduled for September 14. To RSVP, please email
TheRopesTraining@gmail.com. In order to be a mentor, you must attend one
of these two trainings. Please bring a copy of the attached Ropes
certification form with you to the training and have one of the trainers
sign it. We'll keep your completed form in your file.

Of course, I'm happy to answer any questions you have about mentoring or
about SYGW in general.

Cheers, Juniper

[TheUWfarm] August FarmMonth Newsletter

Hi Farmers!

Check out the August 2011 newsletter by clicking here! We will be back next month with more updates and news from around the community!

[TheUWfarm] Work Party Friday

Hi all,

Come down and spread compost at the new site this Friday from 10 am to 1 pm! Directions to new site here. If you're not sure where to go, come down to the greenhouse space at 9:30 and we'll walk down together.

Any questions, shoot me an email!

Best,

Rachel

[TheUWfarm] Garden Education and Outreach Internship

Greetings UW Farm community!

Here is an amazing opportunity to develop classes for a community garden in Tukwila, working with the International Refugee Committee (IRC), refugees from Bhutan and Burma, and other Tukwila residents.  You get to create and teach classes, or coordinate with other people to teach classes, or do both!  You get to work with lots of King County-based, food-related organizations! You get to have the best time ever!

See the IRC website for a complete description and further instructions: http://www.rescue.org/us-program/us-seattle-wa/garden-internship

Feel free to email me with any further questions.


Cheers,
Ariadne Brancato


P.S. Please forward to anyone else you think might be interested!

[TheUWfarm] Summer/Fall Chicken Crew

Bawwwwk, 

Summer quarter is almost over, which means we will need a new set of volunteers for the  chicken crew! If you're interested please fill out the poll linked below with your preferred days/times.

Poll: http://doodle.com/y28a6q68i32hxmgz

I realize lots of folks will be going on vacation or absent for at least one or two weeks, but if you can make a majority of the weeks and would like to participate please fill out the poll and just send me an email with the weeks you are unavailable and we can find substitutes.  

If you can't commit but are interested in being a substitute or just keeping up with the girls please join the chicken list-serve: https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/gallus

There will be more training sessions, a work party and a chicken crew meet and greet prior to the new session so stay posted!

As always if you have any questions don't hesitate to email me!

Amy Simons 

[TheUWfarm] Friday potluck and work party!

Hello farmers!! Tomorrow a bunch of us will be at the farm around 1 for a big salad and hang out!

Come down and eat some tomatoes!

Also there's a work party at the new farm site tomorrow from 10-1 (needs lots of help!!)! If you're interested in that, a group will be leaving the current farm site at 9:30 to walk down to the new site (at CUH).

See you all tomorrow I hope!!

Julia