03.16.23

Around The Farm
By Kove Janeski, UW Organic Farming and Operations Lead, Landscape Architecture Masters Student 
Coming Soon: Wapato Pond

As Seattle’s growing season ramps up, the Farm team is working hard every day to get our plots ready for this year’s crops. In addition to these seasonal tasks, the Farm is also focused on larger, long-term projects. One of these projects is the construction of a pond for the cultivation of Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia). 

1)   Berberis darwinii                                                           Michay, Darwin’s Barberry

This thicket-forming evergreen shrub is native to Chile and boasts small holly-like leaves, profuse orange blossoms, dark blue berries, and ample thorns.
Darwin is usually credited with “discovering” this species, however, it was known and used by Indigenous populations long before he collected it.
Michay is a serious environmental weed in New Zealand and is on the watch list in California. 

03.10.23

Around The Farm
 
Composting: reducing carbon emissions from food waste is easier than you think

By Perry Acworth, UW Farm Manager
Many students that visit or simply hear about the UW farm often ask to what extent our farming practices are sustainable. There are quite a few answers to this depending on the definition. From individual understanding to textbook terms, sustainable is often referred to as addressing the long term well-being of society, the environment and economy. 

03.01.23

Around The Farm

By Sally Schafer, UW Farm Informatics Intern, Informatics Major and Environmental Studies Minor
Hi all! My name is Sally, and I’ve had the pleasure of being one of the UW Farm Informatics Interns this past quarter. From the first time I volunteered, I knew I loved the farm. Working there in spring, summer, fall, and now winter, has given me so much. 

02.22.23

Around The Farm
Ingrid Fosberg, General Farm Intern, Public Health-Global Health Major

 
I love public health. In my last quarter as an undergraduate, I reflect fondly on my course of study and eagerly anticipate a career at the intersection of science and social justice. Given my aspirations, some may question why I choose to spend precious weeks right before jumping into the job market and researching graduate schools outside, growing food, and getting dirty. 

Claytonia multiscapa ssp. pacifica is located in the niche habitat of wet subalpine to alpine meadows. It is a treasure to the Olympic Mountains in Washington and the North Cascade Range in Vancouver B.C. Keep your eyes peeled for these delicate white flowers on the edge of melting snowfields in the late spring to mid-summer months. 
Commonly known as the Pacific lanceleaved spring beauty, this flower is a hairless perennial with multiple stems from a roundish corm. 

02.15.23

Around The Farm
By Lily Shen, UW Farm Informatics Intern, UW junior, majoring in Data Science
Hi! My name is Lily and I am a junior studying Data Science and Geography. Ever since I was a kid, I have always tried my best to be environmentally conscious. As I continued through college, I decided that I wanted to be even more so. 

02.08.23

Around The Farm
By Vivian [Wen-Huei] Chen, senior, majoring in Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health and  Political Science, UW Farm Environmental Justice Intern
 
My name is Vivian Chen, I was born and raised in Taiwan and came to Seattle for college. In my spare time, I enjoy cooking and baking bread which I find as my ideal of slowing down to appreciate life’s small joys. 

The Baker cypress, the most northern and hardiest cypress in North America is a tree with a challenging future ahead of it. Within its native range of southern Oregon and northern California there are several populations, many a long distance separate from others.

02.01.23

Around The Farm

By Olivia Johnson, UW Farm Education Intern, Environmental Studies Major
A Farm in Winter: Observations 
 
As a student at a large urban university, the UW Farm is my place of peace, harmony, and community. I go there to escape the bustle of student life. I love the sense of purpose that everything and everyone has at the farm.