The sweetest little teardrop trailer you ever saw!
Lovely work by Saltbox Designs. Stay tuned for more pictures as we continue working to bring chickens to the UW Farm! 

The UW student chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration’s (SER-UW) native plant nursery is located on campus at the Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH). It is a student run operation that provides plants to the on-campus restoration projects that SER-UW manages. This year, with the support of a Campus Sustainability Fund grant, the nursery is expanding by building a new hoop house, growing more plants from seed and cuttings, and increasing its opportunities for volunteer involvement. 

The University of Washington Farm 2016 UW Student Farm Staff Positions
The University of Washington Farm (UW Farm) is a student-run farm on the UW-Seattle campus. The mission of the UW Farm is to be the campus center for the practice and study of urban agriculture and sustainability, and an educational, community-oriented resource for people who want to learn about building productive and sustainable urban landscapes. 

The Fiddleheads Forest School, recently featured in a New York Times article, is a nature pre-school that focuses on giving children the opportunity to learn and grow through outdoor exploration. The program is located at the Washington Park Arboretum, which is co-managed by UW and the Seattle Department of Parks. Part of the space used by the forest school includes a raised bed garden that is planted with annual vegetables. 

Announcement of Temporary, Part-time Position Opening: Assistant Agricultural Compost Outreach and Education Coordinator, WSU Extension Snohomish County, Everett Office
Description:
The Assistant Agricultural Compost Outreach and Education Coordinator is responsible for assisting in reaching out to local farmers to sustain conversation about how commercial compost can be utilized as a part of a holistic land management program. The Assistant Coordinator will visualize and explain the local and global importance of re-designating our ‘waste stream’ as a vital resource for agricultural land. 

 
Mother Earth Farm is an 8 acre food bank farm run by the Emergency Food Network. Located in the Puyallup River valley, the farm uses organic practices to grow about 100,000 pounds of fresh produce a year for Pierce County food banks and hot meal sites. Mostly focused on vegetables, Mother Earth also has an orchard, beehives, and a small herb and flower garden. 

Soil Born Farms Urban Agriculture and Education Project
Job Title: Farm Manager
Program: Food Production and Farming Education – American River Ranch
Reports To: Co-Director
Farm & Organization Background
Soil Born Farms Urban Agriculture & Education Project is a non-profit educational farm in Sacramento, California. Our programs focus on promoting health and providing experiential learning opportunities for youth and adults, producing healthy food, improving access to healthy food for all and modeling land and environmental stewardship. 

Tuesdays, 4:30-5:20 at the UW Botany Greenhouse

Professor Jennifer Ruesink is leading a one-credit Agro-ecology Reading Group in Winter 2016. This will be a weekly seminar in which students/staff/faculty read and discuss articles covering various aspects of agroecology.

Agroecology represents the interaction of farming with the environment, in which “environment” can be variously defined in terms of how much of the human environment is included. 

(A letter from Academic Advisor, Joe Kobayashi). 
The UW is a great place for food studies: from growing food at the UW Farm to studying food issues related to society, the natural environment, the built environment, and human health. Now a committee of faculty from the College of Built Environments, the College of the Environment, and the College of Arts and Sciences are in the process of developing a proposal for a new Interdisciplinary Food Studies Minor, and we need your help. 

The Community Gardening Leadership Training is seeking four new farm/garden apprentices to join them on Whidbey Island for the 2016 growing season!
The Community Gardening Leadership Training gives motivated individuals the skills and experience needed to lead community farms and gardens. The training nourishes a vital local food system by providing fresh produce, volunteer opportunities, and education to the community through our food bank, school district, and non-profit growing programs.