[TheUWfarm] upcoming book club

Hello UW Farmers,

Jennifer Ruesink and I will be leading a fall book club and I want to invite you to attend!

Here are the details if you are interested in attending please e-mail Kristy Brady (just so she can have a head count).  We would like you to commit to the whole series and not just one night so please be sure you can make it before signing on!

Here are the details!

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After a year off, we are having another book club this fall quarter - yay! Starting next week, we will be reading Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak. Ronald is a plant geneticist at UC Davis and Adamchak is an organic farmer at UC Davis. This book takes a thoughtful look at the roles organic farming and genetically-engineered food will play in feeding a human population rapidly approaching 7 billion.

We will meet a total of 5 times over 10 weeks to discuss the book. Discussions will be hosted by Dr. Elizabeth Wheat, UW Biology graduate student alum and UW Farm Education Coordinator, and Prof. Jennifer Ruesink, UW Biology professor and UW Farm Faculty Advisor.

Book discussions will be on Wednesdays starting at 6:30pm on campus. Reading/Discussion schedule will be as follows:

October 5th: Book sections: Introduction and The Farm (Ch. 1, 2, 3). We will also kickoff the book club with a tour of the UW Farm during this first meeting (fingers crossed for clear skies!).

October 19th. Book section: The Lab (Ch. 4). Discussion will also include special guest Biology professor and chair Toby Bradshaw.

November 2nd. Book sections: Consumers and Ownership (Ch. 5, 6, 7, 10, 11)

November 16th. Book section: The Environment (Ch. 8, 9)

November 30th. Book section: Dinner (Ch. 12). We are planning to conclude our book group with a potluck dinner on the UW Farm, featuring farm food!

We will be meeting in Wallace Hall: http://washington.edu/maps/?ACC. For those of you who attended the Climate Change Book Club, this is the same spot that was in. 

For more information you can email me at kbrady@uw.edu or call (206) 685-2185.

Hope to see you next week! Feel free to pass this along to others you think may be interested.

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Elizabeth Wheat, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Program on the Environment
Education Coordinator - UW Farm
206.550.4622