Upcoming Farm Events Tuesday Farm Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 GUG 218 End-of-quarter farm festival Friday, June 4 beginning 4 pm at the farm Farm Field Trip Farm in Willapa Bay May 21 - 23 Reserve spot here _______________________ Dirty Dozen Hours
Spring Quarter Come help out! Mon: 7:30am-1pm Tue: 8:30am-1pm Wed: 9 am - 3 pm Thur: 8:30am-9:30am, 10:30am-1pm, 2:30pm-5pm Fri: 9:30 am-5:30 pm ______________________ UW Farm website
UW Food Social Networking Site*new* UW Farm Blog Send all submissions for the weekly newsletter to uwfarm@u.washington.edu The newsletter will go out Monday evenings ______________________
This Week's Farm Tasks
Get out some Sunshine mix in the container!
Section A Sign for radishes Train Peas Slug Control in A1 (egg shells, beer?) Weed under raspberries Level out beds A1, A2 and A3 Section B Harvest Lettuce Slug Control Section C Harvest Choi Weed Garlic Bed extension barrier Eat Chive Flowers Keep C11 moist LEAF MINERS ALERT!!!! Section D Harvest Broccoli Weed tomato Cold Frame Close Cold frames if you open them! Check all berry covers Start Brussel Sprouts Update UW Farm sign with calender, etc. Help grapes, make small trellis Weed jerusalam artichocke bed Weed Collard bed! Back 40 Spread woodchips in chicken coop More Soil from Blue Tarp to Beds (potatoes and other new beds) Build more compost piles! Large amount of material currently available Spread woodchips and tidy up around cob oven (especially areas that are getting muddy when it rains. Herb Area Plant things in empty spaces Fill empty buckets Trim Sage (take home and dry/dehydrate for use) Weed Raspberry bed | FARMWEEK
Week May 17 - 23
UW Farm Updates
Surprise! UW Farm Gets Foege Field and Potential $25,000
This past Friday, the UW Farm learned that our Dean's office, in collaboration with Capital Planning and Projects, has approved our bid for Foege Field. This comes with a potential $25,000 to start up our new farm. The UW Farm is still awaiting final approval from the Medical School and the College of the Environment, both of which oversee buildings next to the field. The Friday pizza bake turned into a celebration of everyone's hard work and the now-real image of a farm on Foege Field.
Images from Friday's pizza bake:
   
UW Farm Calender Project Needs your Input The UW Farm is putting together a calender for 2011, and needs input from the community. This will be a great way to show off the farm and raise some money. Main things we need help with are:
1. Quotations. Anything pertaining to farming, food, or justice is welcome.
2. Dates. Significant dates and holidays in any/all cultures focused on farming, food, or justice is welcome.
Reply to our discussion board here, or email Michelle Harvey.
Spring P-Patch Garden Party Friday May 28
You are invited to the Spring P-Patch Party! See attached flier and below for details.
Who: you! everyone :)
What: A P-Patch Garden Party
Why: To celebrate the completion of the P-Patch expansion project, publicly thank everyone who has put their time and effort into the P-Patch this year, share your ideas for the coming years in the garden, and enjoy spring sunshine and good company together.
When: Friday, May 28th from 3-6pm
Where: At the P-Patch (located behind Hall Health. Go down the stairs to the right of the building and you'll find us.)
Please bring: A potluck dish to share.
RSVP requested: Please email Joanna Wright or rsvp on the facebook event page
Off Farm Stuff
P-Patch Internship with Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle Community Harvest of SW Seattle is offering a summer internship position with their Fruit Gleaning Program for summer 2010. We are looking for an on-site Harvest Supervisor. The supervisor will lead small groups of volunteers picking fruit, bringing equipment, delivering fruit to the food bank, and assuring safe picking. This is a volunteer position, with a stipend provided at the completion of the season. Hours will vary based on availability of fruit. Will most likely be 4 hours per week or less in June and early July, and 12 hours per week the last two weeks of August. This is a great opportunity to have a key role in a local non-profit that is working to increase access to local produce for everyone in West Seattle and White Center. Please see www.gleanit.org to learn about this organization. On-site supervisor responsibilities: - Supervise volunteers at all residential fruit pickings - Bring ladders, boxes, and other equipment to the harvests - Deliver boxes of fruit to the food banks Qualifications: - Organized - Reliable transportation - able to carry at least two orchard ladders on vehicle - Able to move 30 pound boxes - Comfortable enforcing rules for safe picking - Available to work on evenings and weekends - Friendly and enthusiastic If interested, please respond to Aviva Furman before May 25 with a resume and letter.
Three Part Documentary Series being put on by College GreensThe UW College Greens group is offering a three part documentary series this month. The group is striving to create a network of social and environmental justice groups on campus, and the UW Farm can be a part of that. Documentaries will be screened in Savery 260 at 5:30. All documentaries will be followed by discussion and guest speakers. May 10 - Coal CountryMay 17 - The GardenMay 24 - The Corporation Student Food Co-op Fundraiser Dinner and Dessert Auction, Saturday May 29 Join the UW Student Food Cooperative for a night of delicious local food (sensitive to vegan/vegetarian palettes), drinks, live and performances by local bands including Pillow Army and a dance troupe! We will be hosting a small silent auction along with a live dessert auction. Help us kick-start this amazing student run, community supported project! Fundraiser Dinner & Dessert Auction May 29, 2010 - 6:00 PM
@ OmCulture - 2210 N Pacific St, Seattle, WA (near Gasworks Park)
More info at the facebook event page Tickets are now available at Brown Paper Tickets
$9 (student) & $20 (general public) in advance
or $12 (student) & $25 (general public) at the door Proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards helping the UW Student Food Cooperative purchase a food cart. About the Co-op: We are building a student food cooperative whose purpose is to achieve food sovereignty on the UW campus and address food justice issues through affordable provisions of healthy and organic prepared foods. We hope to source from the expanding UW Farm and other local farmers & artisans. The UW Food Cooperative is in rapid development and is actively seeking community support and input! Visit our website for more information
PoE Announces Lecture Series for Fall 2010: Eating your Environment
Lecture Series is on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:00pm in 120 Kane Hall beginning October 5, 2010. The Program on the Environment will run a linked undergraduate course with the public lecture series, allowing students to discuss lecture topics in more detail with speakers. Beth Wheat, founder of the UW Farm, will teach the linked undergraduate course.
From the field to the kitchen, from Seattle to the plains of Africa, we will follow food production from the dawn of the human species through to the present. This series will bring public intellectuals and practitioners to campus to share their thoughts and experiences with the UW and Seattle community. What they say will be new, interesting, and occasionally controversial, as we collectively explore the most personal and public of resources: food.
Autumn 2010 Course (1-3 credits, Cr/NC)
There are two options to earn credit for this series:
ENVIR 450 E: 1 credit, Cr/NC: for attending the weekly lecture series: Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00pm in Kane Hall 120
ENVIR 450 F & FA: 3 credits, Cr/NC: for attending the weekly lecture series *and* a required discussion session on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 9:30-10:20
Confirmed Speakers
Will Allen - former professional basketball player, former corporate marketing executive, a MacArthur Fellow (the "genius" award), and an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations through his organization, Growing Power, which he founded in Milwaukee, WI.
Gebisa Ejeta - Ejeta, winner of the 2009 World Food Prize, grew up in a one-room thatched hut with a mud floor in a rural village in Ethiopia. Trained in plant breeding and genetics, his development of sorghum-hybrids resistant to drought and the devastating Striga weed (the greatest biological impediment to food production in Africa) have enhanced the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Claude Fischler - Claude Fischler, a nutritional sociologist at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris focuses on perception of food borne risk, "scares" and crises, and on comparative approaches of attitudes toward food and health across cultures in relation to prevalence of obesity.
Cary Fowler - "Protecting the future of food, one seed at a time" is Cary Fowler's objective. He is Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, founded by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and currently chairs the International Advisory Council of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The self-described Tennessee farm boy sees the vault as the fulfillment of a long fight to ensure that the world's food supply has the diversity needed to stand against the threats of disease, climate change and famine.
Gary Nabhan - Nabhan's year-long mission to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within 220 miles of his Arizona home redefines "eating close to home" as an act of deep cultural and environmental significance. Author of Coming Home to Eat and founder of Renewing America's Food Traditions Alliance (RAFT), Nabhan is an Arab-American writer, lecturer, food and farming advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist whose work has long been rooted in the U.S./Mexico borderlands region he affectionately calls "the stinkin' hot desert."
Marion Nestle - Author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health and What to Eat, Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her research focuses on how science and society influence dietary advice and practice. She served as senior nutrition policy advisor in the U.S Department of Health and Human Services and was managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health.
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