[TheUWfarm] Seattle Tilth Americorps position

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From: Mary Embleton <mary@oz.net>
Date: Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Subject: [cascadeharvest] Seattle Tilth Americorps VISTA position open at Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands
To: cascadeharvest@lists.cascadeharvest.org

From: Katie Pencke [mailto:KatiePencke@seattletilth.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:17 PM
Subject: Americorps VISTA position open at RBUFW

 

Hello all, please see the attached job description for a new Americorps VISTA position with Seattle Tilth based at the Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands.

 

We are working with a pretty tight timeline, and are hoping to interview qualified candidates next week, with a start date in January 2013.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, or if you have other ideas for recruitment.

 

Katie Pencke

Program Manager

Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands

5513 S. Cloverdale St.

Seattle, WA 98118

p 206 760 0500

c 206 992 7034

f 206 633 0450

katiepencke@seattletilth.org

www.seattletilth.org

 

 

The mission of Seattle Tilth is to inspire and educate people to safeguard our natural resources while building an equitable and sustainable local food system.

 

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[TheUWfarm] farm this week

Hi Farm friends,

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Day weekend! I'm thankful for the beauty of our lush green (and gold, and red, and orange) city in the autumn ~

Farm schedule this week:

M - 8:30-11 Poop pick-up! Will be off-farm
T - 1-4 Leek harvest, etc.
F - 12-3 Third graders!

Attaching a pic from our last fall work party a couple of weeks ago planting a permaculture area with fruit trees and herbs!

Best,
Rachel

[TheUWfarm] UW Farm this week!

Hey Farm friends,

It was an awesome last work party at the CUH farm site of 2012 this weekend - thanks for all your hard work and good spirits. The permaculture site looks AWESOME!

We'll continue to have hours during the week as per below. Finish strong this quarter! See you out there again soon ~

Best,
Rachel

CUH Farm Hours this week (weird for Turkey Day)

M - 8:30-11 Farm "office hours" at the CUH library (sorting seeds and such - helpers are great!)
T - 1-4
F - 12-3 NONE (Happy shopping?)

[TheUWfarm] Re: "American Meat" Documentary Screening Tonight!

CORRECTION! The American Meat Documentary Screening was YESTERDAY not tonight. Sorry for the confusion everyone! This email was sent yesterday but not delivered until this morning due to some technical problems with the listserve. 

If you still want to see the movie, there will be another screening on Thursday at Seattle Pacific University. For more info click here. 

Sorry!

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Mollie Tarte <mollietarte@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey everybody,

Check out this awesome (and FREE) documentary screening tonight in Kane Hall! Come at 6pm for a meet and greet with some of UW's coolest food related student organizations, or show up at 7pm for the film! 

Hope to see you there!

 

 

The AMERICAN MEAT documentary tour is coming to UW on Tuesday, November 13^th! Join us for a free public screening sponsored by the Real Food Challenge at UW and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

WHO: UW community and greater Seattle area
WHEN: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13^th @ 6:00 PM
WHERE: Kane Hall Room 210 (UW Campus)

SURPRISE: Free chipotle burrito gift card!

 

RSVP at our Facebook event here.

It's time for a REAL look at things. The UW campus will be host to one of ten public screenings being organized around the country to reveal what meat production in this country looks like for farmers. This screening will feature a post-film guest panel, at which you will have the opportunity to learn from and speak directly with:

-Graham Meriwether, director of "American Meat" and the Leave It Better production company
-George and Eiko Vajkovich, grass-based farmers of Skagit River Ranch
-Megan Carney, postdoctoral scholar in the UW Medical Anthropology and Global Health Program
-Stephanie Robinson, UW student and Real Food Challenge activist
-Charmaine Slaven, co-founder of the Seattle Farm Co-op

American Meat is a pro-farmer look at cattle, hog, and chicken production in the U.S. The film examines our current industrial meat system not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work in its feedlots and confinement feeding operations. The documentary then depicts the burgeoning sustainable, local-food movement made up of farmers, food advocates, chefs and everyday folks who are changing everything about the way meat reaches the American table. The film exposes challenges relevant to both conventional and alternative meat production. Three core actionable principles guide the Young Farmers Screening Series: thank America's farmers; support young farmers; and food choices matter.

This is more than a documentary film: this is a social change film, and it is sweeping the country in some of the hotbeds of debate around agriculture. We welcome your inquiries and can arrange interviews with the film director, Graham Meriwether, remotely or in person.

 

 

We will see you there!

 

 

Real Food Challenge at UW

rfc.at.uw@gmail.com

 

Learn how students are fighting for just and sustainable food systems.

 

 

 

 

[TheUWfarm] "American Meat" Documentary Screening Tonight!

Hey everybody,

Check out this awesome (and FREE) documentary screening tonight in Kane Hall! Come at 6pm for a meet and greet with some of UW's coolest food related student organizations, or show up at 7pm for the film! 

Hope to see you there!

 

 

The AMERICAN MEAT documentary tour is coming to UW on Tuesday, November 13^th! Join us for a free public screening sponsored by the Real Food Challenge at UW and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

WHO: UW community and greater Seattle area
WHEN: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13^th @ 6:00 PM
WHERE: Kane Hall Room 210 (UW Campus)

SURPRISE: Free chipotle burrito gift card!

 

RSVP at our Facebook event here.

It's time for a REAL look at things. The UW campus will be host to one of ten public screenings being organized around the country to reveal what meat production in this country looks like for farmers. This screening will feature a post-film guest panel, at which you will have the opportunity to learn from and speak directly with:

-Graham Meriwether, director of "American Meat" and the Leave It Better production company
-George and Eiko Vajkovich, grass-based farmers of Skagit River Ranch
-Megan Carney, postdoctoral scholar in the UW Medical Anthropology and Global Health Program
-Stephanie Robinson, UW student and Real Food Challenge activist
-Charmaine Slaven, co-founder of the Seattle Farm Co-op

American Meat is a pro-farmer look at cattle, hog, and chicken production in the U.S. The film examines our current industrial meat system not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work in its feedlots and confinement feeding operations. The documentary then depicts the burgeoning sustainable, local-food movement made up of farmers, food advocates, chefs and everyday folks who are changing everything about the way meat reaches the American table. The film exposes challenges relevant to both conventional and alternative meat production. Three core actionable principles guide the Young Farmers Screening Series: thank America's farmers; support young farmers; and food choices matter.

This is more than a documentary film: this is a social change film, and it is sweeping the country in some of the hotbeds of debate around agriculture. We welcome your inquiries and can arrange interviews with the film director, Graham Meriwether, remotely or in person.

 

 

We will see you there!

 

 

Real Food Challenge at UW

rfc.at.uw@gmail.com

 

Learn how students are fighting for just and sustainable food systems.

 

 

 

 

[TheUWfarm] farmin this week

Hey friends! This coming Saturday the 17th from 10-2, come on down for a last huzzah in the garden! We'll be...

- Planting fruit trees (!!!)
- Harvesting brussel sprouts
- Movin' wood chips around
- Double digging
- Etc...

Let's get in one last spell of quality time with our food system in the open air before we all retreat inside for a few months with our warm socks and mugs of tea.

Facebook event

Have a great week!

-Rachel

Farm hours this week
T: 1-4
F: 12-3 (3rd graders!)
Sat: 10-2 (work party!)

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[TheUWfarm] Re: EVENT: Please share with your listserv and please come!

Hi there,

Just following up to make sure you didn't miss this e-mail. Let me know if you're able to spread the word and if you'll need any more information. Also, as an update, Claire Thompson the environmental reporter from Grist will be moderating the panel discussion.

It's sure to be a great event. Don't miss it!

best,

Rachel

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Rachel Signer <rachel.s@leaveitbetter.com> wrote:

Hi there, We'd love if you would share the below event on your campus with your listserv, as well as on your blog. Let me know if you need any more information!

best,

Rachel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contacts: American Meat Project Coordinator Rachel Signer, rachel.s@leaveitbetter.com
Film Director Graham Meriwether, graham@leaveitbetter.com

Educational documentary American Meat is kicking-off its Washington leg of a nationwide Young Farmer Screening Series at the University of Washington, on November 13th, from 6-9pm, in Kane Hall (Room 210, on UW Campus, at 1410 Northeast Campus Parkway). The event at UW is FREE and open to the public. Featured in the film are George & Eiko Vajkovich, grass-based farmers of Washington's Skagit River Ranch, who will also be joining a pre-reception and panel discussion following the screening at UW.

American Meat is a pro-farmer look at cattle, hog, and chicken production in the U.S. The film examines our current industrial meat system not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work in its feedlots and confinement feeding operations. The documentary then depicts the burgeoning sustainable, local-food movement made up of farmers, food advocates, chefs and everyday folks who are  changing everything about the way meat reaches the American table. The film exposes challenges relevant to both conventional and alternative meat production. Three core actionable principles guide the Young Farmers Screening Series: thank America's farmers; support young farmers; and food choices matter.

A spirited panel discussion will follow the screening, including:

• George & Eiko Vajkovich, of Skagit River Ranch who are featured in American Meat. George's early career was in commercial fishing all over the world for 24 years. He began farming full time 18 years ago, and the farm became "certified organic" in 1998. He now farms over 800 acres organically, bio dynamically and sustainably. Eiko was a marketing executive for a large fishing company where she met George. She holds an MBA degree from the University of Washington. In 1995 she left the seafood brokerage company she owned to farm full time with George.  She does most of the farm's marketing and financing as well.

• Megan Carney, a postdoctoral scholar in the Medical Anthropology and Global Health Program at the UW. She has taught university-level courses for several years in the areas of food systems, food policy, and food movements. She has served as a consultant on environmental and social sustainability to residential dining services for UC Santa Barbara and to regional food banks. She was also a founding member of the Santa Barbara County Food Policy Council and of the UCLA student garden.

• Stephanie Robinson, a UW student, who has been an activist for the last year with the registered student organization Real Food Challenge, a national grassroots campus movement that works to increase university procurement of foods that are local, ecologically sound, fair, and humane. Stephanie and students on over 360 other U.S. campuses are working to divert 20% of an annual $5 billion national university food budget to "real food" purchases by the year 2020, catalyzing a transformation to the national food system at large.

• Charmaine Slaven, co-founder of the Seattle Farm Co-op, a non-profit member-owned & operated retail co-operative farm supply store.  The Seattle Farm Co-op serves Seattle's urban farmers and some local rural farmers by providing access to organic & non-gmo livestock feeds, gardening & veterinary supplies, and opportunities for community connection and sharing of farming wisdom.  Charmaine grew up on a small hobby farm in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, and has been urban farming in Seattle since 2005 to supply her household with homegrown vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, and dairy.

• Graham Meriwether, director of American Meat.

This is more than a documentary film: this is a social change film, and it is sweeping the country in some of the hotbeds of debate around agriculture. We welcome your inquiries and can arrange interviews with the film director, Graham Meriwether, remotely or in person.

To keep up with American Meat as the film takes the country by storm between October 2012 and May 2013, follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

--
Rachel Signer

Project Coordinator

American Meat Film 

Tel: (347) 938-6007

--
Rachel Signer

Project Coordinator

American Meat Film 

Tel: (347) 938-6007

[TheUWfarm] petition - don't pay money

Hi all,

I'm really sorry for this confusion. I am technologically challenged, and I haven't handled this well.

I'm not sure what the deal is with the petition website, but don't pay money if it's asking - the money's not going to the Farm.

The main point is to let people know what's going on with HFS. Thanks for your support.

Best,
Rachel

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Rachel Stubbs <rachelnstubbs@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's try this again! Via a petition-making website.

Please take a look at and sign this petition for Housing Food Services to pay real prices for produce from the UW Farm – they are currently trying to pay less than what they pay wholesale from their mass distributor, even though the Farm's produce provides great publicity opportunity and educational value to their franchises.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/uw-farm-hfs/

Thanks! And if you could, put in the "comment" box if you're a UW student/staff/faculty/HFS employee.

Best,

Rachel

[TheUWfarm] Re: farm food petition - yes!

**And also if you're a dorm resident.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Rachel Stubbs <rachelnstubbs@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's try this again! Via a petition-making website.

Please take a look at and sign this petition for Housing Food Services to pay real prices for produce from the UW Farm – they are currently trying to pay less than what they pay wholesale from their mass distributor, even though the Farm's produce provides great publicity opportunity and educational value to their franchises.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/uw-farm-hfs/

Thanks! And if you could, put in the "comment" box if you're a UW student/staff/faculty/HFS employee.

Best,

Rachel

[TheUWfarm] farm food petition - yes!

Let's try this again! Via a petition-making website.

Please take a look at and sign this petition for Housing Food Services to pay real prices for produce from the UW Farm – they are currently trying to pay less than what they pay wholesale from their mass distributor, even though the Farm's produce provides great publicity opportunity and educational value to their franchises.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/uw-farm-hfs/

Thanks! And if you could, put in the "comment" box if you're a UW student/staff/faculty/HFS employee.

Best,

Rachel

[TheUWfarm] UW Farm petition link

Hi all,

Hopefully this link will work and it should be publically accessible to all: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1KzLFpD82bqNTViSVFUandiVUU/

Let me know if not! Thanks!

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Rachel Stubbs <rachelnstubbs@gmail.com> wrote:

 Hey Farm friends,

We had a great work party this past Saturday with some friendly neighborhood goats! Check out pictures here(UW Farm Facebook album) .

 

Please take a look at and sign this petition for Housing Food Services to pay real prices for produce from the UW Farm – they are currently trying to pay less than what they pay wholesale from their mass distributor, even though the Farm's produce provides great publicity opportunity and educational value to their franchises.

Hope to see you down at the Farm sometime this week  (usual hours below) for continued preparation for fall/winter – compost, invasive removal, and maybe some sign-painting.

 

Have a great week!

-Rachel

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Hours this week:

M: 8:30-11
T: 1-4
F: 12-3
Sat: Not this coming weekend but next, the 18th

[TheUWfarm] CUH farm this week (and goat pics <3)

 Hey Farm friends,

We had a great work party this past Saturday with some friendly neighborhood goats! Check out pictures here(UW Farm Facebook album) .

 

Please take a look at and sign this petition for Housing Food Services to pay real prices for produce from the UW Farm – they are currently trying to pay less than what they pay wholesale from their mass distributor, even though the Farm's produce provides great publicity opportunity and educational value to their franchises.

Hope to see you down at the Farm sometime this week  (usual hours below) for continued preparation for fall/winter – compost, invasive removal, and maybe some sign-painting.

 

Have a great week!

-Rachel

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Hours this week:

M: 8:30-11
T: 1-4
F: 12-3
Sat: Not this coming weekend but next, the 18th