Aug 23, 2008
Join us in celebrating the local harvest of an area farm. Local wine, food, and area chefs will prepare a meal at the farm. Reservations will be required. Look for details in early July. 360-546-1512 or urbanfarmschool@gmail.com

Jul 24, 2008
Learn how to choose, start, and harvest vegetables to lengthen your growing season into autumn. Fee: $10 Registration: 360-546-1512 or urbanfarmschool@gmail.com

Jul 24, 2008
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - On Thursday, July 24th at 6pm the Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee will host a book talk and signing with Mark Winne, author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. The event is free and open to the public and will be held at Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd, Nashville. The event will be followed by a light reception featuring locally-grown foods. Winne will read from his book, Closing the Food Gap, in which he chronicles the beginnings of the food movement and the crippling effect Regan-era cuts to federal food assistance programs had on the poor and elderly. He charts the role “supermarket abandonment” and the proliferation of fast-food chains have played in the growing obesity and diabetes crisis among low-income Americans. Winne provides an insider’s look at strategies employed by those working to close the food gap in communities across the country, from New Orleans to Brooklyn to Oregon. Food banks, community gardens, farmer’s markets, cooperative supermarkets, community supported agriculture programs, and nutrition programs are just a few of the models he discusses A book signing and reception will follow the reading.

Jul 10, 2008
Learn how to integrate fruit and vegetables into a new or existing “traditional” yard design for food, aesthetics, and cost-savings at the market. Fee: $10 12404 NE 72nd Avenue, Vancouver 98686 Registration: 360-546-1512 or urbanfarmschool@gmail.com

Jul 2, 2008
Please join co-founders of the Rhizome Collective for a reading from their book "Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide," and in a discussion of the design of autonomous urban communities utilizing simple techniques such as rainwater harvesting, bioremediation, and worm composting.