tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31386942258944276242024-03-05T18:46:31.381-08:00Rainier Beach Urban FarmGrowing Food and building Community in Rainier BeachMegbikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375146534442504346noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138694225894427624.post-36921534699265253022012-06-13T12:07:00.000-07:002012-06-13T12:08:09.513-07:00First Community Design Meeting!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Our community design process kicks off next Tuesday, June 19!!! We will offer good eats, farm tours, and we ask that you participate in our first community meeting. This meeting, the first of three, will help shape a vision for farm programs, as well as improvements we will make to the site to support our programs. Berger Landscape Architecture will be leading this workshop. </span></div>
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We would love to have your input!! Come take a tour, enjoy some delicious food from a local Rainier Valley restaurant, and share your ideas with us! </div>
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Where: Rainier Beach Urban Farm, 5513 S. Cloverdale</div>
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What time: 5:30 - 8:30 pm (food and tours from 5:30 - 6:30, meeting from 6:30 - 8:30). </div>
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For translation services, contact <a href="mailto:emily.lofstedt@seattle.gov">Emily Lofstedt </a>of Seattle Parks and Recreation (206-684-7047). </div>
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<br /></div>Megbikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14375146534442504346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138694225894427624.post-10984345625753995532012-06-13T11:08:00.001-07:002012-06-15T09:53:35.116-07:00Rainier Valley Eats BBQ at the Farm, this Friday!<br />
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<span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;">Join us this Friday for a BBQ at the farm!</span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br />
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<span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.rainiervalleyeats.org/?page_id=7">Rainier Valley Eats</a> has been hosting community dinners the third Friday of every month at community centers in Rainier Valley. This month's dinner is taking place at the farm, and you are invited!</span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;">Come meet your neighbors, have some wonderful food and hear about our upcoming community design process. </span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px; text-align: left;">Suggested donation is $3, but all are welcome regardless of ability to pay. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact <a href="mailto:leika.suzumura@seattletilth.org">Leika</a> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">for more information or to sign up to help cook.</span></span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px;"><br /></span><span class="event-when" style="display: block; margin-left: 7em; padding: 3px 0px;">Fri, June 15, 5:30pm – 6:30pm</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The VISION for Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands (RBUFW) is to be a vibrant community hub and model green infrastructure project transforming a surplus Parks Department facility into an innovative organic URBAN FARM + WETLANDS restoration site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nestled in the heart of one of the most diverse zip codes in the nation, this 10-acre site has the potential to produce over 20,000 pounds of fresh healthy food each year for families struggling with food security. The site will also provide educational opportunities for at-risk and underserved youth; offer access to and education for a rare in-city natural wetlands environment; improve wetlands habitat for native wildlife; foster economic development; and strengthen community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SPRING + SUMMER 2012:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In late 2011, the Friends of Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands was awarded a $50,000 Neighborhood Matching Fund (NMF) grant from the Department of Neighborhoods to steward the community design process in collaboration with Seattle Tilth and Seattle Parks and Recreation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As part of the match, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to support outreach efforts necessary to engage the community and ensure that the community design process is as representative of the diverse community in Rainier Beach as possible. </span></div>
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