[TheUWfarm] Farm Coordinator lying fallow

Hi Farm Friends,

I am leaving the UW Farm for awhile, stepping down as Farm Coordinator for the Fall. It has been a spring and summer of tremendous physical and intellectual growth of our spaces, with growing pains to boot. As a patch of soil, I need a break from production and a good long while lying fallow.

There are so many exciting potentials in this organization right now, and I look forward to seeing the ways in which others step up to realize them. Community around plants, dirt, local food, and poultry is, and always will be, the very greatest!

Best in dirt,
Rachel

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[TheUWfarm] Farm hours this week

Hey all,

Here's when people will for sure be at the Farm(s) this week!

Tues
GH: 10-1

Wed
GH: 10-2:15
CUH: 2:30-5:30 (meeting 4:30-5:30 there)

Thurs
GH: 10-12:45
CUH: 1-4 (volunteer hours in exchange for our space! Please come help :)

Fri TBA - potential goat-poop pick up and compost building! Email with interest
GH: 10-4

Best,
Rachel

[TheUWfarm] Anyone have a pick up truck for poop?

Hey Farm friends,

We're trying to pick up a load of goat poop for our compost this Friday, 9/2. Does anyone have a pick up truck that they'd be willing to lend? We'd put down tarps, promise. :)

Please write back by Wednesday if you can help. Thanks!

Rachel

[TheUWfarm] Free Farm starter plants!

Hey home-gardeners,

There are some free Farm soil-block-starter savoy cabbages, kohlrabi, and broccoli on the big picnic table by the cob oven. They'll stay there until Friday, then'll get tossed.

H'ep yoselves!

-Rachel

[TheUWfarm] Farm hours this week

Hey Farmers,

Intern Kelly and I are gonna need some help this week with Julia and Amanda gone, particularly at the green house site - lots of Fall crops to start, things to water (don't bet that this puny drizzle will last!), and tomatoes to eat! We've got a to-do list up and the planting chart is up to snuff. Also, don't be shy about stepping in for one of the meetings Tues or Wed at CUH - they're gonna be pretty interesting and I could use the student support!

Best,
Rachel

Hours this week:

Tues
GH: Kelly (morning, 10-1ish)
CUH: Rachel, 1-3 (then an irrigation meeting with the Grounds Dept at 3!)

Wed
GH: Rach + Kelly 10-1

Thurs
GH or CUH - Depending - if the gh space looks okay - TBA Wed: Rach + Kelly, 2:30-5:30

Fri
CUH (volunteer hours for the space) - 10-1

Re: [TheUWfarm] Bawk! Chicken Update

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Amy Simons <amylou.simons@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Everyone,

First I'd like to thank out wonderful summer chicken crew!!

Unfortunately we did not have enough volunteers to keep the girls on the farm for the rest of the summer, but they will be back in September so we are looking for a fantastic fall quarter crew!!

If you'd like a shift fall quarter please take a few seconds to fill out this poll:http://doodle.com/deympfqiavptvhy6

As always if you have any questions about the ladies or want to know more about getting involved please shoot me an email!!

Have a wonderful few last weeks of summer,

Amy Simons 

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[TheUWfarm] Bawk! Chicken Update

Hey Everyone,

First I'd like to thank out wonderful summer chicken crew!!

Unfortunately we did not have enough volunteers to keep the girls on the farm for the rest of the summer, but they will be back in September so we are looking for a fantastic fall quarter crew!!

If you'd like a shift fall quarter please take a few seconds to fill out this poll:http://doodle.com/deympfqiavptvhy6

As always if you have any questions about the ladies or want to know more about getting involved please shoot me an email!!

Have a wonderful few last weeks of summer,

Amy Simons 

[TheUWfarm] greetings, become an intern! grow the farm...

Hello UW Farmers,

I am sitting know in the center of the Cedar Rock Preserve pondering the role of our farm and the impact it has had on all of us. Right now I am helping teach a course: Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Ecology on Shaw Island at UW's Cedar Rock Preserve.

We recently visited a farm (S&S Homestead) the farmer there suggested that the ultimate measure of a farm's success isn't the produce grown but the farmer it produces. Indeed I think this is the relationship we are trying to cultivate on our own small space in the middle of our urban campus. It isn't just about the produce we grow, but it is about the people we build in the process. It is about the skills we cultivate and the relationships we nurture.

The UW Farm is pleased to offer once again a credited opportunity for people interested in learning more about the farm and the process of growing food in urban settings. This internship - biology 399 is 3 credits. If you are interested in becoming an intern please read the description on the UW Farm Website (www.students.washington.edu/uwfarm) and e-mail me your letter of interest.

If you can't become an intern this quarter please think of it in the future and consider instead becoming on one of our core group of volunteers - a member of the dirty dozen.

If you can't become a dirty dozen volunteer or an intern this quarter there are still plenty of ways to get involved, to grow food and become a small part of the larger movement to support sustainability on our campus. Our work is being recognized in small but important ways: http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201109/coolschools/top10/default.aspx

Thanks to all of you for your efforts this summer and I look forward to seeing many of you back again this fall.

Yours in the Dirt,
Beth

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University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Program on the Environment
Education Coordinator - UW Farm
206.550.4622

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Re: [TheUWfarm] URGENT! Chicken help needed!!

Also folks, if you can help only for a week or so when you're not travellin, just specify that by your name on the Doodle poll. Still appreciated!

Thanks,
Rachel

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Amy Simons <amylou.simons@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey everyone,

I know the interim time between summer and fall quarter is a busy one for most folks, but if you think you can help out with the chickens please please fill out the doodle poll but this thursday or the chickens may not be able to live on the farm during that month.

Poll: http://www.doodle.com/y28a6q68i32hxmgz

Thanks!!

Amy Simons 

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[TheUWfarm] URGENT! Chicken help needed!!

Hey everyone,

I know the interim time between summer and fall quarter is a busy one for most folks, but if you think you can help out with the chickens please please fill out the doodle poll but this thursday or the chickens may not be able to live on the farm during that month.

Poll: http://www.doodle.com/y28a6q68i32hxmgz

Thanks!!

Amy Simons 

[TheUWfarm] Aug 16: FJP mtg Focus on Racism in the Food System and Food Movement

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TUES AUG 16, 6:30-9PM: CAGJ Food Justice Project Meeting

Racism in the Food System and Food Movement
Location: 23rd Ave S and Jackson St, 309 23rd Ave A 98144, at NELA Center for Student Success. 

Each Food Justice Project meeting now includes an educational component, to enable us to collectively build knowledge for our Community Education initiative.  Meetings will feature speakers, article discussions, personal research and presentation, and focused facilitated discussion.   As an extension of CAGJ's organizational anti-oppression analysis and training process, we have chosen race, class and gender as the first of our monthly topics.

Please join us for our next meeting in August, where we will engage in a facilitated discussion about race and the food system.  The meeting is co-sponsored by Lettuce Link/Solid Ground, and will be facilitated by Bill Aal and Carlos Alicea - see their bios below.  We hope to increase our understanding of the role that structural racism plays in both our food system and in the growing food movement, and to continue to strengthen our capacity as anti-oppressive organizers.  Please bring your knowledge, personal experiences, relevant excerpts from books or articles and your desire to learn from one-another through lively discussion!  

As always, FJP meetings are open to everyone, so please come and bring your friends! Our meetings are potluck style- bring a snack or beverage to share if you're able.

If you can, please read this paper on Anti-Racist Practice and the Work of Community Food Organizations. Also take a look at the Applied Research Center's The Color of Food, if you are not already familiar with it.  In September and October, we will focus on class and gender.  Please send suggested readings or speaker ideas to fjp@seattleblobaljustice.org

FACILITATORS:

Carlos R. Alicea Negrón is an environmental scientist, community organizing, teacher, popular education trainer with ample experience in Puerto Rico and United States and Latin American. He is a professor at Center for Literacy and Cultural Democracy where he teaches Environmental Sciences, Introduction Physical Sciences and Geography using a Multicultural Teaching Model.  Some examples of the projects and initiatives that Mr. Alicea has been involved are: a) food sovereignty and food justice; b) ecology-environmental educational initiatives ; c) community science development projects; d) community based participatory;  e) Environmental Art Festival; and f) The Alliance of the People of Las Americas project in the USA. Carlos is as well a poet and a short story writer. 

Bill Aal is Co-Chair of AGRA Watch, and a co-founder of CAGJ. He is deeply involved in social and environmental justice work with a particular focus on agricultural sustainability and social healing. He joined forces with Margo Adair as co-director of Tools for Change whose mission is: "To bring History, Heart Spirit, Vision and Values into the Center of Public Life." Versed in opening the imagination, awakening people's best thinking and inspiring group transformation, Aal works with group reflection to unleash collective genius in organizational settings. He has consulted with a wide variety of social and environmental groups in Washington and around the US. Bill was an active board member of the Washington State Sustainable Food and Farming Network for ten years and was a board member of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. He is co-founder of Riseup.net which builds computer-based communications networks for activists.

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[TheUWfarm] Work party at greenhouses tomorrow!

Hi Farm friends,

We;ll have a good old-fashioned Botany Greenhouse work party tomorrow, 10-1, with a potluck/BYO lunch with the Dirty Dozen from 1-2 and possible hours afterward. Lots of things to plant out, compost to turn, and homemade banana bread!

Sun and fresh loamy dirt to you,
Rachel

[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


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