2025 Farm-Raiser!
UW Farm Harvest Dinner
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Location: Center for Urban Horticulture
Welcome UW Farm Supporters!
We’re thrilled to welcome you back for our beloved annual Farm Harvest Dinner, a celebration of local flavors, seasonal bounty, and community under the open sky. This year’s theme honors the vital role of pollinators and honey, with a menu inspired by the hardworking bees that help our farm thrive.
We’re excited to feature Guest Chef Sheldon Raju, 
known for his globally inspired cuisine rooted in sustainability and seasonality. Chef Sheldon has trained in celebrated kitchens around the world and is creating a one-night-only menu using the freshest produce straight from our own UW Farm. He recently opened his new restaurant Kahlo and Royal in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Chef Sheldon has been foraging at the UW Farm this season and has connected with farm students and staff sharing his enthusiasm with sourcing locally grown.
Enjoy a beautifully curated seated dinner, served family-style featuring:
Wines from Two Mountain Winery (Washington)
A signature gin cocktail from Lodgepole Distilling in West Seattle, featuring private-label Arboretum Gin crafted from botanicals in the Arboretum!
Gift Table organized by the Dirty Dozen student organization. For donation levels of $100 and $200 there will be gift baskets of farm produce, farm shirts and hats and honey.
Optional Add-On: Dahlia Bouquet Experience
25 guests will have the opportunity to visit the farm and create their own dahlia bouquet to take home.
Add-on: $25 per person
TIMING
- Dahlia Bouquet Experience (add-on only): 4:30-5:15pm
- Welcome Apps and Check-in: 5:00-5:45pm
- Dinner: 6:00-7:30pm
TICKETS – SOLD OUT!
$145 per person
Includes: dinner, welcome beverage & appetizers + 2 drink tickets
*Please note this is a 21+ only event!*
Important Seating Info
- Tables are served family-style. Bring your friends or come ready to make new ones!
- We will do our best to honor seating requests submitted by Friday, September 12th.
- If you are not purchasing tickets for your entire group, please let us know who you’d like to sit with when you register.
Dietary Restrictions
This is a family-style meal featuring both meat and vegetarian dishes served at every table. The menu is thoughtfully crafted using seasonal farm ingredients and is preset for all guests. If you require a vegan/dairy-free alternative entrée, please select this option when registering to ensure availability.
Due to the nature of the event and shared dining format, we are limited in our ability to accommodate all dietary requests or substitutions. Please contact tramtour@uw.edu directly with any specific dietary requests (aside from vegan or dairy-free).
Menu
Subject to change based on produce availability
Salad Course
- Peach, arugula, basil, heirloom tomatoes, burrata, pine nuts, Spanish olive oil, smoked Maldon salt, balsamic (GF, Veg)
- Served with sourdough brioche and beet butter (Veg)
Main Course Options
- Meat Entrée: lamb shoulder with baby potatoes, roasted golden beets, labneh, basil oil, pistachio dust (GF)
- Vegetarian Entrée: grilled broccoli, wild mushroom, crispy artichokes, roasted shallot, parmesan polenta, tomato reduction (GF, Veg)
- Vegan entrée available featuring alternate starch in place of parmesan polenta (GF, DF)
Dessert
- Caramelized cheesecake with mango and fennel pollen
- Homemade honeycomb (GF, DF)
The UW Farm strives to educate students and community volunteers about sustainable farming practices and create awareness of our local food system, while providing fresh food to the UW campus dining program and the greater Seattle community. The UW Farm regularly provides donations to food banks and food pantries, including the UW Food Pantry, Colored Girls Garden Club, Fare Start and University District Food Bank. This event will allow you to give back to the UW Farm and help support their efforts to feed and teach the community!
Donate to the UW Farm Click here to Help the Farm Grow! Every year, we have the capacity to grow more food and be a bigger educational and research resource at the UW, but not without your support. Every contribution goes to work immediately, helping us better serve students. Your support can sustain our momentum and help seed new opportunities for student internships, academic work, and future growth. Please consider making a gift to the Farm today. Help the Farm Grow!
More about the UW Farm
The UW Farm is a 1.5 acre student-powered urban farm & educational facility located on the University of Washington’s Seattle Campus. We have two urban growing sites: Center for Urban Horticulture and Mercer Court.
Our mission 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.