[TheUWfarm] Farmweek Newsletter April 3rd, 2011

Farmweek Newsletter | April 3rd, 2011
Upcoming Farm Events and General Information Tuesday Farm Lunch All quarter, T 12:30-1:20 in GUG 218 Monthly Pizza Bake Next one: 15 Apr. 3.30-6pm April All Farm Meeting Apr. 6, 5-6 pm Botany Greenhouse Farm Vision Meeting Apr. 4, 5:30-6:30 pm Kincaid 502 _____________ New ways to get farm information! We have a website! (and blog) Facebook Fan Page - become a fan! ___________ Send all submissions for the weekly newsletter to michelle@uwfarm.org During the academic year, the newsletter will go out weekly on Sunday evenings. ___________	Trouble viewing this newsletter? View it in a web browser here. UW Farm Updates Welcome back farmers! We hope Spring quarter is off to a great start. 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: Meet My New Best Friend, Brix (Annette Cottrell) Food and Justice: Race and the Food System (Michelle Venetucci Harvey) Note from the Director: Welcome Back! (Nina Arlein) East Meets West, North Meets Center (Joel Kramer) Sorry, that has a Trademark: Urban Homestead® (Michelle Venetucci Harvey) Farm Field Trip: Tour de Urban Goats (Paige Irwin) Principles of Natural Beekeeping, Part 1 UW Farm Expansion Committees When Fair-Trade Meets Delicious: Theo Chocolate (Paige Irwin) While you're at it, become a fan of our Facebook Fan Page, and follow us on Twitter! Beth Wheat in upcoming Seattle Arts and Lectures Series  UW Farmer Beth Wheat will be speaking in the upcoming Seattle Arts and Lectures Series titled "Following Wendell: The Culture & Politics of Sustenance." This series will bring together an incredible group of lecturers, and the culminating day will be a trip to the UW Farm, complete with pizza bake! For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the SAL website. All Farm Meeting This Wednesday, 5 – 6 in the Botany Greenhouse  The topic of this All-Farm meeting will be a revisioning of our current political structure. How can we acknowledge the growing responsibilities of farm leaders? Do we need a new model? How will this model incorporate the new Center for Urban Horticulture space? Please come to this meeting ready to brainstorm and share ideas.   Please note that this All-Farm meeting will not include a new farmer orientation. These orientations will now take place before/during our monthly pizza bake (the next one is April 15th).  Want to get more involved? Check out our updated calendar page for work parties, pizza bakes, and committee meetings! Off Farm Stuff CAGJ Looking for SLEE Dinner Volunteers  The Community Alliance for Global Justice is in need of a few organizers for the June 11 SLEE Dinner - it's only 3 months away! We really need more volunteers to help organize the dinner. This is CAGJ's most important fundraiser and community event of the year. Can you lend us a couple of hours per week until June 11? Please see website for more details. We also need people to volunteer on June 11: If you can't volunteer before, but are available the day-of, fantastic, let us know that too.  Email Heather Day for more information. UW Farmer Formalizes Landscape Design Business Erin Lau, who has helped the UW Farm with landscape design for our expansion projects over the last year, has started her own landscape design business. The UW Farm wholeheartedly encourages everyone to check out her website and call her up right away. Seminar: Developing attract and kill strategies to control Asian citrus psyllid in residential citrus trees: Fundamental studies on host aromatic attractants.  Wednesday, April 6, 1 pm in Anderson 22  Joseph M. Patt, Ph.D., Research Entomologist USDA-Agricultural Research Service Subtropical Agricultural Research Center joseph.patt@ars.usda.gov   Seminar overview: Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) (Diaphorina citri) was introduced into the U.S. in the late 1990's and feeds only on Citrus and related host plants.  It feeds exclusively on phloem sap and is the vector of the phloem-limited bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, the causal agent of Huanglongbing (HLB), aka citrus greening disease.   HLB kills its hosts within a few years following infection and has caused widespread devastation in citrus producing regions such as Florida, Brazil, China, and South Africa.  Currently  there are no treatment options available for HLB.  My research is focused on developing host-plant based scent attractants as a means of improving our ability to detect and monitor ACP populations.  I am also developing an autodisseminator of spores of the fungal pathogen Isaria fumosorose.  The autodisseminator will be designed for use in citrus and other rutaceous landscape plants in backyards and similar settings where the use of chemical controls is not feasible.
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