Upcoming Farm Events Monthly All Farm Meeting Wednesday, June 2 4:30 tour 5 - 6 meeting Botany Greenhouse Pizza Bake Tabling Thursday, June 3 HUB Lawn 11:30 AM End-of-quarter Pizza Bake Friday, June 4 beginning 4 pm at the farm _______________________ Dirty Dozen Hours
Spring Quarter Come help out! Mon: 7:30am-1pm Tue: 8:30am-1pm Wed: 9 am - 3 pm Thur: 8:30am-9:30am, 10:30am-1pm, 2:30pm-5pm Fri: 9:30 am-5:30 pm ______________________ UW Farm website *new* UW Farm Blog Send all submissions for the weekly newsletter to uwfarm@u.washington.edu The newsletter will go out Monday evenings ______________________
This Week's Farm Tasks
Mound potatoes everywhere!
stake tomatoes everywhere!
--back 40/compost
build new compost pile in blue bin-- wednesday 9:30
sift compost and use it in beds
--areas a and b
figure out why daikons are bolting/if we can stop it
put beans in
tatsoi harvest for friday
give fish emulsion to stressed fennel
find out about floppy onions: is this normal?
get leaf miners out of sorrel
make arugula pesto
transplant squash
harvest chard in B
--areas c and d
harvest: cilantro, arugula, kale, mazuna, chard (including stems!)
resew clover in c10
fill empty space in c12
build something for new raspberries to climb on
WEED (esp along burke, D10,16)
slug emergency in beans!!
check with brady about planting squash in the buckets along hill w/ NZ spinach (and clearing plants on the hillside)
--come to the all-farm meeting tomorrow at 5pm in the greenhouse
--sign up at the meeting for tasks to prepare for the party on friday! (dough, fire, set-up, clean-up etc)
--give tours!! today: 1030, 1220 wednesday: 4
no experience necessary! we will gather ~20 minutes before to talk about the tour plan | FARMWEEK
Week June 1 - 6
UW Farm Updates
UW Farm Graduation: Celebrate UW Farm Graduates on June 10
The farm wants to get the word out about the upcoming farm graduation. we will get together on Thursday, 10 June, 3:30 pm at Meany hall for the awards of excellence ceremony where Beth will receive her teaching award! this is a really important recognition of her immensely hard work and what it has meant for the growth of the farm. afterward we will move down to the UW farm to celebrate graduates of many kinds at 5:30 pm and carry the party on to golden gardens (bike parade!) after the appreciations for a BBQ potluck.
if you are graduating and are able to attend, please let Amalia know by putting your name on this list.
UW Farmer Profile: Joel Kramer
Interviewed and Compiled by Emilia Ptak
Name: Joel Kramer
School & Area of Study: University of WA, Senior, Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences Favorite fruit or vegetable: Beans Favorite place: "An avocado orchard in Southern California from my childhood." How did you learn about the UW Farm? "I first got involved in the UW Farm spring quarter of my freshman year. I heard about it from Alan Trimbol, who was teaching an ecology class and encouraged students to enact the principles learned in class." What do you do at the farm? "There isn't just one thing you do because it's a whole lifestyle and about being part of a community. Part of it is thinking about envisioning a better world and part of it is actually getting your hands dirty." As for specific tasks: "We are encouraged to read out of the library and ask greenhouse members questions and practice those techniques. There is pest-management and we pick up resources from around campus and the city, such as paper and coffee grounds to bring back to the farm and enrich the soil. And then there is also the permaculture area, which requires low-maintenance, but still attention. So then, a lot of what the farm is about is about observation, like watching things grow, seeing what happens in certain conditions, and becoming attached to it just by spending time with it –not exactly doing something to it, but just being with the bees or the blossoms." Favorite part about the UW Farm: "It's a place you can be free on a campus without a lot of expectations and regulations and walls. The farm is a place you can be silly. Least favorite part about the UW Farm: "It feels like a minority thing. And maybe that's nice, but I feel that because it is about the food that we eat and so fundamental, I really wish that people didn't have qualms about coming to the farm and thinking it is dirty to grow food." How do you define the UW Farm? "It is a do-ocracy. We just say: whatever we want to do, we do it." "I tell people: we grow our own food on campus; we even bake our own pizza. You should come down and join us some Friday." How has farming influenced your relationship with nature? "It gives you security in knowing that you don't own it. You are giving the plants and the animals their sovereignty. And you say this is your place to make your own and suddenly, once you realize that they are not your plants or it's not your air, then you connect to that. Then you feel like you don't have to own anything because the world owns you. It gives you a sense of belonging that's a lot greater in scope. You can eat a tomato from another continent and not really feel the connection to that place because you got it out of a plastic bag or a store, but when you grow it closer to home you suddenly realize everything near and far is important and a part of you." How do you define your relationship to the National Young Farmer's movement? Do you see this as a trend or as evolving into cultural change? "Yeah, it's totally a trend, but it's happening because of something very real and rooted. We have to take advantage of it now and plant as many seeds as we can so that when the trend washes away there is a forest there." "You connect with other people on the other side of the country doing the same thing."
Dashing for the Dessert: UW Food Co-op Fundraiser Well Attended, Raises $2,500
The UW Food Co-op held a fundraiser on Saturday night that was attended by over 120 people from around the community. The menu was a variety of dishes along with a a giant wheelbarrow salad donated from the farm (pictured below), and guests participated in a dessert dash, silent auction, and coffee and wine tastings. Altogether the co-op was thrilled to raise $2500, which will be put towards purchasing a food cart.
  
About the Co-op: We are building a student food cooperative whose purpose is to achieve food sovereignty on the UW campus and address food justice issues through affordable provisions of healthy and organic prepared foods. We hope to source from the expanding UW Farm and other local farmers & artisans. The UW Food Cooperative is in rapid development and is actively seeking community support and input! Visit our website for more information: www.uwsfc.com
Off Farm Stuff
Reading of "Farmer Jane" by Temra Costa at Ravenna Third Place Books on Saturday From the bookflap: As farmers, moms, businesswomen, chefs, and activists, women are changing the way we eat and farm. They are the fastest growing demographic to own and operate sustainable farms, comprise the largest percentage of sustainable agriculture nonprofit employees, own sustainable food businesses, cook the majority of household meals, and control household budgets. "Farmer Janes" are creating a more healthful, sane, and sustainable food system for present and future generations.
Join author Temra Costa for a book reading at this local stalwart of great literature, and see here website here. The author will be speaking at Third Place Books in Revena this Saturday, June 5 at 7 pm. There is no cost!
Location: 6504 20th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98115
website here
FYI: Sustainability Studio Symposium looks at UW Campus SustainabilityThe sustainability studio was a Spring quarter course designed to look at the roots, definitions, and concepts of sustainability, while looking at the state of sustainability on the UW campus. Student research teams looked at fish, student knowledge, proteins consumed on campus, and composting. Their symposium is happening this Friday, June 4 at 1:30 pm in the PoE Commons (ACC 012), and they would love UW Farmers to attend. CAGJ Movie Night Saturday: "We Feed the World" CAGJ is about to host its fifth AGRA Watch film night. These monthly film nights address issues that are directly relevant to the work of scholars, activists and others on issues of development, neoliberalism, food, agriculture, and African affairs. CAGJ will be showing We Feed the World, a film by Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer that traces the origins of the food we eat. When: June 5th, from 5-8pm Where: Cascade People's Center 309 Pontius Avenue N Seattle, WA 98109 About the film: WE FEED THE WORLD is a film about food and globalization, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us . Interviewed are not only fishermen, farmers, agronomists, biologists and the In's Jean Ziegler, but also the director of production at Pioneer, the world's largest seed company, as well as Peter Brabeck, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé International, the largest food company in the world. If you are interested in attending this film night, please RSVP to agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org. Drop-ins are welcome, but please RSVP if you get the chance. Also, this will be a potluck. Please bring some food or drinks to share. Develop U Looking for Farm-Related Presentations, Lectures, Tours, and Ideas From August 24-27, 2010, UW Libraries are holding Develop U, a variety of short classes, workshops, tours and other events. If you would like to share your talents or hobby, let us know. If you want to present a work-related topic, bring it on! Team up with other staff members to present something educational, interesting, musical. Sessions can be as short as 30 minutes or as long as 90 minutes. So the idea is: presentations that are possibly work-related, possibly not, about interesting and fun topics that teach us something. There are a lot of gardeners who work at the Libraries, and sessions related to gardening always do really well. We've had tours of the Medicinal Herb Garden in previous years, which people loved. Does anybody at the Farm do special tours/lectures? If so, does this sound like something you would be interested in? Please contact Sarah Weeks here. "May I be Frank" Movie Screening June 3
This Thursday, June 3, the raw food documentary "May I be Frank" is being screened at Seattle Unity Church. Put together by servers at Cafe Gratitude in San Francisco, the film documents the transformation of 54 year old Frank Ferrante who went from being overweight, depressed, had hepatitis C, and a bad family life, to loving himself, his body, and getting rid of his diseases!
Frank Ferrante and his coach Cary Mosier will be coming down to Seattle themselves for the movie screening. Also there will be an exclusive after party at Thrive Raw Foods Cafe, and an exclusive dinner gathering in Redmond the next day, where people can get to know Frank better.
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