[TheUWfarm] FARM WEEKEND with All Farm Meeting, Work Party, and Leadership Retreat!

Calling all farmers!

The last week in February is chock full of excellent UW Farm activities!  You should come on down to give us a hand and have a great learning experience!

Saturday, Feb 25th there is a work party at the CUH from 11-3!  We will be bed building, seed-sowing, and completing CUH volunteer hours in preparation for spring harvests!  It's a beautiful time to be a part of the new growth of our student farm, and I would love to see you all down there.  Be sure to bring your lunch, and sturdy clothes!

Sunday, Feb 26th is our much anticipated Winter Leadership Retreat!  It will take place from 11-3 at the Botany Greenhouse space.  Are you are a farm leader?  Do you think you maybe have a great idea for the farm, and want to take leadership on it?  Do you just really love the farm and want to get more involved?  This event is for you!  It is the perfect opportunity to get to know current farm leaders, what they do and how they do it, and do some work on the farm.  We will be providing a delicious lunch, and setting up games and workshops.  Come by and check it out!

Also in the last week of February is our All Farm Meeting, from 6-7 at the Botany Greenhouse space.  Great if you want to learn more or catch yourself up on the farm goings-on and meet some of the farm regulars!

Happy days,

~Rae Moore

UW Farm Coordinator, CUH Space

[TheUWfarm] FarmNewsletter- Feb15

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15 February 2012 Farm Updates   On-Farm Events Dirty Dozen Meeting February 17, 11:30am to 12:30pm, Botany Greenhouse Weekly Work Party and potluck February 17 12:30pm to 2:30pm, Botany Greenhouse All are welcome! Bring food if you want! Rae's CUH Farm Hours  February 17, 2pm to 5pm, CUH site Rae will be working down at the farm. Come and join her! Work Party at CUH February 25, 11am to 3pm, CUH site  We will be bed building, invasive plant removing for the CUH, and possibly even some compost building and seed-starting! Bee Team Meeting  February 21, 4:30pm to 5:30pm, Botany Greenhouse Bees-ness as usual.   New Blog Posts! ARUM MASSACRE!!!!! Whats up with Winter? Snazzing up the Soil for Spring! Whats up with Winter? Projects to Prep for Spring! UW Farm in the News!   In the Community   Cricket Creek Farm looking for Interns for the year 2012 Cricket Creek Farm is a small grass-based dairy in Williamstown, Massachusetts. They are looking for 5 interns interested in making cheese, caring for livestock, attending farmers markets, and helping to run their CSA offering: raw milk, cheese, butter, beef, pork, eggs and bread. Ideal candidates stay for 1 full year, ideally from March 15, but no later than mid-May. Stipend starts at $500/month.   Interested? Please send an email to info@cricketcreekfarm.com with a resume, 3 references, and answers to the list of questions on this intern webpage. For more information, visit this link or call (413) 458-5888.   A Conversation with Nigel Savage, Executive Director, Hazon and Prof  Karen Litfin, Political Science, University of Washington February 23, 7:30-9:00 p.m   Join two leading experts on the intersection of religion, food, and public policy for a conversation hosted by the UW's Stroum Jewish Studies Program. Nigel Savage, a trailblazer in the Jewish food movement, and UW Professor Karen Litfin, a scholar of global environmental politics, will explore the ways in which religious faith and practice contribute much-needed perspectives on food production and distribution. The third of a four-part series considering the links between Judaism and social justice, the discussion will consider how religious communities are now emerging as key catalysts for transforming our relationship with food and advocating for a healthy and just food system.    Register at: http://jewdub.org/what-is-religions-place-in-food-politics/ More about the event at: http://jewdub.org/justice-and-judaism/learn-more/time-to-get-hungry/        Got a piece of news to share? Please send your newsletter submissions to Kelly.

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Hello Farmers!

I am working on a research project to create an aerated compost pile for the UW farm that will efficiently produce compost without needing to manually turn the pile.

For this project, I need one of these, basically an air mattress inflator. I am trying to dip into the farm budget as little as possible, so I was wondering if anyone has one that they don't use or need. If so, can you send me an email?

Thank you! Stay dirty...

Ross

rover.ross@gmail.com

[TheUWfarm] Fwd: [seattlefarmcoop] Survey re: Farming on City-owned Land

FYI:

Dear Friends of Urban Agriculture,

The City of Seattle is considering making City-owned land available for commercial farming. We would like to get feedback and ideas from people who farm commercially in or outside of the city, or who would like to start farming in the city. You can help us by taking the survey linked to this e-mail.

The survey includes 15 questions and will take about 10-15 minutes to complete. Most questions do not require an answer, but the more you answer the better we are able to understand your needs as a farmer.! Here is the link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YMZDGMQ

Thank you for participating and feel free to contact any of us with any questions you may have.

Rich Macdonald, Dept of Neighborhoods P-Patch program, rich.macdonald@seattle.gov 206 386-0088
Allison Schwartz, Seattle Dept of Transportation, Allison.schwartz@seattle.gov 206 386-4654
Cheryl Sizov, Dept of Planning and Development, Senior Planner, Cheryl.sizov@seattle.gov 206 684-3771

[TheUWfarm] Fwd: [cagj-fjp] Feb 16, 2:30pm: Free Screening-The Future of Food

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From: Heather Day <hred2011@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Subject: [cagj-fjp] Feb 16, 2:30pm: Free Screening-The Future of Food
To: Food Justice Project list-serve Project list-serve <cagj-fjp@lists.riseup.net>, AGRA Concern <Agraconcern@googlegroups.com>

The UW Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue is proud to announce our 2011-12 quarterly film and speaker series.  Our subject this year isRethinking Citizenship, Democracy and Activism: Local-Global Entanglements.  Each screening is free of charge, and we welcome your attendance.

 

In winter quarter, we will screen The Future of Food, a documentary about the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer issues surrounding the changes happening in the food system today, directed by Deborah Koons Garcia.  Our guest speaker will be Heather Day, Co-Founder of the Community Alliance for Global Justice and UW alumnus.

Thursday, February 16^th at 2:30pm in UW's Allen Auditorium.

 

Our spring quarter film will be 23^rd and Union.  Directed by Rafael Flores, this docu-drama weaves real interviews with fictional characters to investigate the 2008 murder of Degene Berecha in the popular Seattle restaurant "Philadelphia Cheese-Steak".  The film is an ADAPTED story, based on a range of stories by people acquainted with the victim and convicted murderer.  It is used as a vehicle to discuss gentrification and the tension between young African-American men, Ethiopian immigrants and gay couples in Seattle's Central District.  Flores will be on hand after the screening for a discussion period.

Date and location TBD.

 

For more information, please see our website: http://depts.washington.edu/clowes1/.

We look forward to seeing you at the screenings!

 

Theron Stevenson

Assistant Director, Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue

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  "The ocean is not really the ocean until you are out of your depth"
       ~Milan Kundera

 

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Heather Day, Director

Community Alliance for Global Justice

www.seattleglobaljustice.org

206-724-2243

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[TheUWfarm] Re: FIUTS CulturalFest! Join the celebration!

Hi Glacia,

Thanks for letting us know about this great opportunity! I'll send this out to our listserve right away. 

Best,

Mollie

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Glacia Michele Lee <glaciale@uw.edu> wrote:

Hi, 

My name is Glacia Lee, I am a UW student and a FIUTS CulturalFest Booth Committee Member. I would just like to request that you forward this email to the UW Farm list-serv to get Seattle and University of Washington community members involved and celebrate cultural diversity at the University of Washington at the CulturalFest FIUTS event on February 10th, run by students and supported by FIUTS. 

I really appreciate your help. If you have any questions, let me know. 

Best, 

Glacia 

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Dear Seattle and University of Washington community members,

     Cultural Fest is one of the biggest annual cultural events in University of Washington.It is intended to celebrate diversity and harmony that international students bring to our region.It brings together over 100 participants from 30 countries who take the unique sights, sounds, tastes from their home countries in front of you.

   During the day in Meany Hall, you may explore country exhibition booths, participate in interactive games and activities,and meet students from more than 30 countries.Booths are free and open to everyone.

    In the evening, over 1000 guests will fill the Meany Hall and enjoy music and dance performance of traditional and modern artistes from all over the world.

     As the world is becoming more integrated, CULTURALFEST provides a great opportunity to mingle and become close friends with students from around the world. These global friendships among students are priceless assets in your future careers.I invite you all to come to CULTURALFEST on Feb 10. I hope to see you there and travel the world with me.

 Hours:  11am – 3pm - International Cultural Exhibition – Free
              5:30pm – 7:30pm – Evening Reception and Silent Auction 
               8:00pm – 10:00pm – Cultural Music and Dance Performances. Doors open at 7:00 for cultural booth viewing.

Following are the talented Cultural Fest performers:

The Cumbieros, Cumbia Music from South America Dazzler, Chinese Classical Dance UW AWAAS, South Asian A Cappella Layali Dabkeh,
Arab Folk Dance Sayaw, Philippines Folk Dance Husky Wushu Team, Chinese Martial Arts Onefourfive, Republic of Georgia A Cappella Violetta Parra,
Traditional Chilean Dance Natya, Indian Classical Dance Barvinok, Ukrainian Hutsul Dance


Cost: General Admission - $15 Performance / $45 Artist Reception and Performances
Student Tickets (with Student ID) - $10 in Advance ONLY from FIUTS  Children under 10: Free

Tickets are on sale now at : http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/214719 
For more information got to www.fiuts.org or call (206) 543-0735

Please forward this email to those you think will be interested in this event! 

Sincerely ,
Glacia Lee
FIUTS CulturalFest team

[TheUWfarm] Pizza Bake this FRIDAY

HEY dudes and dudettes,

Just wanted to let you know that we are having a pizza bake this friday from 3-5 (http://www.facebook.com/events/157830647662210/)

Bring a topping to share and enjoy some dancin, meet some new friends, and eat all the pizza your heart desires!

see you there!

Julia