Thursday, August 30, 2012
[TheUWfarm] Farm work tomorrow
Friday, August 24, 2012
[TheUWfarm] farm boom box?
Do you have a battery-operable boombox you'd be willing to donate/sell to the UW Farm? Working in the fields is much more enjoyable with some tunes!
Thanks,
Rachel
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
[TheUWfarm] Real Food Challenge summer opportunity
Are you...
...Wanting your food choices at school to align with your values?
...Ready to bolster your real food campaign this coming school year?
...Hungry for change?
Attend the Northwest Summer Leadership Training!
August 23-26 • Spokane, WA
The training is geared towards all NW (WY, MT, ID, WA, OR, AK) college students looking to start or strengthen a campaign for real food on their campus.
The trainings will provide a unique opportunity for students to learn from one another and experienced organizers working with the Real Food Challenge. Workshops include: Storytelling for Organizing, Inside the Corporate Food Service Industry, Recruitment and Retention on a Busy Campus, Campaign Planning, Messaging to Stakeholders, the Real Food Calculator, and much more!
The Run Down
When: August 23-26 (Thursday Aug 23 3:00 PM PST - Sunday Aug 26 3:00 PM PST)
Where: Spokane, WA
Who: NW students already engaged in or looking to start Real Food projects on campus.
How: REGISTER HERE. We can help arrange travel logistics.
Cost: $35-$50 registration (sliding scale). Registration and travel scholarships are available on a case by case basis.
Who are we?
Breland Draper, Northwest Regional Field Organizer
Based in Boise, Breland spent his youth the agricultural rich Snake River plain in the southern part of Idaho. Breland's interest in food mostly centers on food security and food justice, and he has a passion to connect local food producers with consumers. While organizing for the Real Food Challenge, Breland is also working on several food security studies and projects, and is also finishing his Masters in Community and Regional Planning from Boise State University. Breland lives in an extremely small cottage in Boise's North End with his wife Cassandra and their two dogs Layla and Lakota.
Contact Breland: breland@realfoodchallenge.org / 208-670-0891
Emma Brewster, Northwest Regional Coordinator
Now based in Seattle, Emma is originally a small town in NH. Emma came to the Real Food Challenge through an interest in the intersection of cuisine and food culture; community development; international trade policy, and public health. Because of its necessity and centrality, Emma believes that food and the food system – though challenging – offer unparalleled opportunity to positively impact communities by strengthening relationships, and improving human and environmental health. When she's not musing about the food system, Emma enjoys doddling in junk stores, stompin' to bluegrass music, willing tomatoes to grow in Seattle's climate, and sampling the house specials at rural roadside eateries.
Contact Emma: emma@realfoodchallenge.org / 603-667-1249
David Schwartz, National Campaign Director
Based in RFC's national offices in Boston, David will be joining us in Spokane for the training. David came to the world of food justice and sustainable agriculture in high school through his work at The Food Project. In college he helped start a student garden, a multi-farm CSA distribution scheme based on campus, and a campaign to redirect over $1 million of school food dollars to "real food." David has been awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship for his work and was featured on VH1's Do Something Awards.
Want a student's perspective? Ask training planning team members Breanne Flynn (Gonzaga University) and Stephanie Robinson (University of Washington)!
It's just two weeks away: REGISTER FOR THE TRAINING TODAY!
Looking forward to digging in. Together.
[TheUWfarm] Fwd: Hungry yet?
From: Emma Brewster, Real Food Challenge <rfc@mail.democracyinaction.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Subject: Hungry yet?
To: samuel.reed.9@gmail.com
Are you...
...Wanting your food choices at school to align with your values?
...Ready to bolster your real food campaign this coming school year?
...Hungry for change?
Attend the Northwest Summer Leadership Training!
August 23-26 • Spokane, WA
The training is geared towards all NW (WY, MT, ID, WA, OR, AK) college students looking to start or strengthen a campaign for real food on their campus.
The trainings will provide a unique opportunity for students to learn from one another and experienced organizers working with RFC. Workshops include: Storytelling for Organizing, Inside the Corporate Food Service Industry, Recruitment and Retention on a Busy Campus, Campaign Planning, Messaging to Stakeholders, the Real Food Calculator, and much more!
The Run Down
When: August 23-26 (Thursday Aug 23 3:00 PM PST - Sunday Aug 26 3:00 PM PST)
Where: Spokane, WA
Who: NW students already engaged in or looking to start Real Food projects on campus.
How: REGISTER HERE. We can help arrange travel logistics.
Cost: $35-$50 registration (sliding scale). Registration and travel scholarships are available on a case by case basis.
Who are we?
Breland Draper, Northwest Regional Field Organizer
Based in Boise, Breland spent his youth the agricultural rich Snake River plain in the southern part of Idaho. Breland's interest in food mostly centers on food security and food justice, and he has a passion to connect local food producers with consumers. While organizing for the Real Food Challenge, Breland is also working on several food security studies and projects, and is also finishing his Masters in Community and Regional Planning from Boise State University. Breland lives in an extremely small cottage in Boise's North End with his wife Cassandra and their two dogs Layla and Lakota.
Contact Breland: breland@realfoodchallenge.org / 208-670-0891
Emma Brewster, Northwest Regional Coordinator
Now based in Seattle, Emma is originally a small town in NH. Emma came to the Real Food Challenge through an interest in the intersection of cuisine and food culture; community development; international trade policy, and public health. Because of its necessity and centrality, Emma believes that food and the food system – though challenging – offer unparalleled opportunity to positively impact communities by strengthening relationships, and improving human and environmental health. When she's not musing about the food system, Emma enjoys doddling in junk stores, stompin' to bluegrass music, willing tomatoes to grow in Seattle's climate, and sampling the house specials at rural roadside eateries.
Contact Emma: emma@realfoodchallenge.org / 603-667-1249
David Schwartz, National Campaign Director
Based in RFC's national offices in Boston, David will be joining us in Spokane for the training. David came to the world of food justice and sustainable agriculture in high school through his work at The Food Project. In college he helped start a student garden, a multi-farm CSA distribution scheme based on campus, and a campaign to redirect over $1 million of school food dollars to "real food." David has been awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship for his work and was featured on VH1's Do Something Awards.
Want a student's perspective? Ask training planning team members Breanne Flynn (Gonzaga University) and Stephanie Robinson (University of Washington)!
It's just two weeks away: REGISTER FOR THE TRAINING TODAY!
Looking forward to digging in. Together.
Emma & Breland
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
[TheUWfarm] Pizza Bake and Honey Harvest this Saturday!
Come join the farm for our last pizza bake of summer this Saturday, from 12 to 3 pm, and see the bee team harvest honey from our hives! Make your own pizza and bake it to perfection in the farm's very own wood-fired cob oven, while listening (and dancing) to live bluegrass music. A splendid time is guaranteed to all!
Provided there is enough, we will be selling some of the honey, so be sure to bring a small container to bring your honey home in (Prices are:$3-$5 to fill small jars, $8 for big ones, $10-12 for really big jars)
Please bring a topping to share or a $5 donation to help cover the cost of food :)
Hope to see you there!
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/274552879317556/
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
[TheUWfarm] help the farm bees!
What is this dark hum among the roses?
The bees have gone simple, sipping,
that's all. What did you expect? Sophistication?
They're small creatures and they are
filling their bodies with sweetness, how could they not
moan in happiness? The little
worker bee lives, I have read, about three weeks.
Is that long? Long enough, I suppose, to understand
that life is a blessing. I have found them-haven't you?—
stopped in the very cups of the flowers, their wings
a little tattered-so much flying about, to the hive,
then out into the world, then back, and perhaps dancing,
should the task be to be a scout-sweet, dancing bee.
I think there isn't anything in this world I don't
admire. If there is, I don't know what it is. I
haven't met it yet. Nor expect to. The bee is small,
and since I wear glasses, so I can see the traffic and
read books, I have to
take them off and bend close to study and
understand what is happening. It's not hard, it's in fact
as instructive as anything I have ever studied. Plus, too,
it's love almost too fierce to endure, the bee
nuzzling like that into the blouse
of the rose. And the fragrance, and the honey, and of course
the sun, the purely pure sun, shining, all the while, over
all of us.