10.19.22

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Interactive Art Design Student Creating New Dynamic Signs for the UW Farm
By Oliver Norred, UW Farm Signage Design Intern – Mary Gates Leadership Scholarship
I am an interactive Art Design major, UW Farm intern and a senior at UW. Since the spring quarter, I have been working on an interpretive "Dynamic Sign" project for the UW Farm. 

10.12.22

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By Perry Acworth, UW Farm Manager
We had beautiful weather at last week's sold out Harvest Dinner fundraiser. Many of us were inspired by the savory and sweet farm to table menu created by Chef Seth Fernald and his team. We are thankful for individuals from Fare Start and UW students who helped prepare and serve such a feast.  

10.5.22

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By Audrey Sun, Public Health-Global Health: Nutritional Sciences Major, UW Farm Fall Nutrition Education intern.

Hey all! My name is Audrey Sun (she/her) and I am the Fall Quarter Nutrition Education intern at the UW Farm. Each week I will be creating my own recipes each week using produce from the UW farm. The recipes will be utilizing seasonal items featured in our CSA boxes. 

9.28.22

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New Tastes and Tours at the Annual UW Farm Harvest Dinner
In eight days, the well known UW Farm Harvest Dinner will be held at the UW Botanic Gardens Center for Urban Horticulture. An event that grew from humble beginnings in 2014, run by the farm manager and students, has expanded from a simple community meal to a farm-to-table annual fundraiser.   

9.21.22

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UW Farm Staff Field Trip: Exploring Local Urban Farms
by the UW Farm Team

Farm Team at the Nurturing Roots Entrance
Left to Right: Perry Acworth, Kelien from Nurturing Roots, Daniel Orborne, Eve Wang, Julia Macray, Hsin-Yu "Maggie" Huang, Althea Ericksen, Dannette Lombert

Left – Signage from the Nurturing Roots Farm stating "Community Farm Education" and pointing towards their two farm sites

Right: Nurturing Roots Farm staff member, Keilan, showing off the smoothie bike while also making us a strawberry banana smoothie

Julia and Perry helping to consolidate the compost piling at Nurturing Roots in preparation for the season coming to an end

Farm Team touring the Nurturing Roots second site. 

9.14.22

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Selecting Plants and Seeds for Your Fall (and Winter) Urban Farm or Garden  
by Perry Acworth, UW Farm Manager
With September’s arrival, so begins our thoughts of fall on the farm: swiftly flipping beds from one crop to the next to capture the last warm days and kick start our fall crops, transplanting others for over wintering, choosing garlic varieties for planting in October, and gearing up for the cover crop season. 

9.7.22

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Introducing UW Farm’s New Food Security Lead

Chrina Munn started September 1, 2022 as the farm’s new AmeriCorps Volunteer. She takes over from Dannette Lombert, who completed their 10-month contract in July. The focus of the position is food security with an emphasis on growing and distributing the farm’s produce, seeds, and plant starts to local food banks and pantries, and households and building relationships with other food access, equity and educational farms and gardens. 

8.31.22

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UW Farm's Growing Relationship with the UW Food Pantry

The UW Farm has had a long relationship with food banks near campus. Before the UW Food Pantry was established, students donated farm produce to the nearby UDistrict Food Bank.  
Students also organized pop-up food distribution events on campus that featured farm produce.
During 2020, a formal partnership with the new campus food pantry was established with the signing of the first Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) .The MOU  spells out the farm's and the pantry's commitment to rescuing vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruit that are not snapped up, or do not meet the standards or quantities needed for the CSA, UW Dining, and Athletics. 

8.24.22

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Life Without A Fridge: How an Experimental Lifestyle Leads to Lessons in Food Systems
By Faith Mathison, General Farm Intern, Computer Science Major

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to store, cook, and eat food without easy access to a refrigerator? Have you yourself lived in such a situation? Living without a fridge is something I didn’t put much thought into until I had to do it myself, at which point I realized how dependent modern life is on reliable refrigeration. 

8.17.22

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Urban Crop Planning Requires Time and Patience
by Daniel Osborne, UW Farm General Farm Intern, majoring in Environmental Science and Resource Management
 
As I was starting the second quarter of my UW Farm internship, Perry Acworth, the Farm Manager, asked me if there was anything that I wanted to focus on learning over the summer. I said, "crop planning." Immediately, I  plunged into the wild world of mismatched records and extensive spreadsheets.