[TheUWfarm] farm meeting notes from 2/2/2011

Dear farmers
For those of you who couldn't make it to the all farm meeting last wednesday the 2nd here they are. Note attached is the new farm primer! (Thanks to Sylvia for being farm scribe!)
Best,
Nina

Farm MEETING
Work party from 9 to 12. This Saturday

Also, we are taking a farm field trip to different goat farms all around the city via bike tour. Rachel is leading it and it will happen on March 12.

Beth is leading a 9 credit course up on Shaw Island this summer Bterm. It is on sustainable agriculture and students will be ovoid I btw tanaka working win a local sect of nuns who do heritage breeding.

Sygw will hold a mentoring orientation on Tuesday 6 to 7.

We still need chicken crew volunteers. There are many spots open for the evening. Nina will send around a chicken list. Contact :

There is a pizza bake on the third Friday of this month, the 18th. Starting around 3. Come and eat!

Farm signage is lacking. Nina is leading a project on outing up some more. Not only what plants are growing here, but also some history. We also want to make a farm to do book. Any volunteers? Crop histories and cool things about cover crop.

Education crew has a lot of cool tors to cone through the farm. Bio 180 eng 121 conservation bio, high school kids compost, ipm, crop rotation. How does the farm make these tours happen? We yeah each-other! We need to train farmers to lead tours.  Send Beth an email if you are into it.

The expansion! We are expanding to the cuh! With our money we want to break ground I Brie spring. We want to grow food and provide food to campus! The visioning meetings happen on Tuesday's in room 520 Kincaid hall. We are focusing particularly on what food crops to plant, the design of the farm and irrigation. We need help digging in the spring!

Brain storming: there will be a paid farm director for a student that will coordinate the activity down at cuh. Also two paid interns in the summer.

Not many members know where cuh is.

What will it be named?
Wapato
Huckleberry
Cat tail

There was a primer sheet handed out at the meeting with detailed information about the committees going on the farm. It is attached to these notes. 

[TheUWfarm] Internship opportunities with farmworkers

SAF has two life-changing programs supporting agricultural workers and their families.

Applications due Feb. 11, 2011

 

Into the Fields Internship (10-week summer Program)

Spend your summer meeting and supporting the people who plant, harvest and produce the food you eat everyday! Through Into the Fields you will support and organize farmworkers, get trained on the issues surrounding their lives and the broader context of the agricultural industry. SAF places approximately 25 college students to work with organizations in the Southeast that serve, organize or advocate for farmworker justice including migrant health clinics, legal aid, community-based organizations and Migrant Education programs. Interns also participate in a Theater Group or complete a Documentary Project with farmworkers.
To qualify you must speak intermediate to advanced Spanish. To be preferenced you must be a college student from a farmworker family or be a student from the Southeast.

Benefits include $1350 total per diem, $1500 scholarship, free furnished housing, free trainings, and academic credit available.

http://www.saf-unite.org/students/itf/index.htm

 

Sowing Seeds for Change Fellowship (6-month Program)

The Sowing Seeds for Change Fellowship is a 6 month leadership development program for college students and recent graduates to improve farmworkers' access to healthcare as well as advocate for improved living and working conditions.Through Sowing Seeds for Change you will support health clinics and get trained on the issues surrounding farmworkers' lives and the broader context of the agricultural industry. Student Action with Farmworkers will place 5 fellows with health clinics that serve farmworkers in North Carolina. They will be trained alongside our 25 summer interns at 3 retreats. SAF fellows and interns come from diverse backgrounds and about half are from farmworker families. Fellows also participate in a Theater Group or complete a Documentary Project with farmworkers.

Benefits include $9,000 stipend, room and board at trainings, academic credit available. Fellows will set up their own housing and will use their stipend to cover living expenses.

http://www.saf-unite.org/students/ssc/index.htm

 

Contact Rosalva Soto, Program Coordinator, Student Action with Farmworkers

919-660-3674, rosalva.soto@duke.edu

 

Laxmi Haynes
SAF Program Director
919-660-3660
www.saf-unite.org

[TheUWfarm] Work Party Saturday: Spring is coming!

Hey all,

Reminder that this Saturday we will be gathering at the Farm 9 am - 12 pm, to prepare for the coming growing season!

Lots of fun things to do and learn, whether you're interested in chickens, vermicompost, or starting cilantro plants.

Hope to see you there~

Rachel

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[TheUWfarm] Re: A CALL FOR HELP- chickens!

Hello again
MOLLY is our new chicken crew leader! yay!
email her if you are interested in taking on a shift: biggsm@uw.edu

thanks all

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Julia Reed <juliareed1105@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello farm community,

Today I put a sign up sheet on the farm cabinet for chicken care takers!
This job is relatively easy, you come in one day a week (you can pick morning or night), and you either let the chickens out and fill their food dish/ empty poop from their house, or let them in their home and put their food away.

it's a fun and easy job, and you get any eggs you find (there's a stockpile of eggs right now! eat them!)

If you have time on your way to class or home from class to do this (ten minutes max), please stop by the farm and sign up, the chickens need some TLC

Farm out,
Julia

p.s. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING THE CHICKEN CREW LEADER- we are looking for that position (basically you just make sure everyone is remembering to take care of the girls, order food when it runs out, etc). This is a relatively easy job and a good way to be involved in the farm- for our chickens are so important!!!!!! email nina (ninarlein@gmail.com), or beth (elizaw@uw.edu) if interested

[TheUWfarm] A CALL FOR HELP- chickens!

Hello farm community,

Today I put a sign up sheet on the farm cabinet for chicken care takers!
This job is relatively easy, you come in one day a week (you can pick morning or night), and you either let the chickens out and fill their food dish/ empty poop from their house, or let them in their home and put their food away.

it's a fun and easy job, and you get any eggs you find (there's a stockpile of eggs right now! eat them!)

If you have time on your way to class or home from class to do this (ten minutes max), please stop by the farm and sign up, the chickens need some TLC

Farm out,
Julia

p.s. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING THE CHICKEN CREW LEADER- we are looking for that position (basically you just make sure everyone is remembering to take care of the girls, order food when it runs out, etc). This is a relatively easy job and a good way to be involved in the farm- for our chickens are so important!!!!!! email nina (ninarlein@gmail.com), or beth (elizaw@uw.edu) if interested

[TheUWfarm] All FARM MEETING TOMORROW! 5pm @ Botany Greenhouse

January has come and gone and somehow the first Wednesday of the month is upon us again. So much has happened in the past month. $80,000 for expansion!!!!! Our new seed order has been made thanks to the efforts of the green team. And the farm is looking spic and span thanks to all who have come and volunteered especially our new crew of dirty dozeners... the dirty thirty. So ALL FARM MEETING TOMORROW!!!! 5pm in the Botany Greenhouse! This is a great way to learn more about the farm: what is happening, how to get involved, and to practice some good ole collective decision making! If you would like a tour/orientation of the farm come at 4:30 pm. I hope to see you all there and sorry for the last minute notice.

Best,
Nina