How can you get involved in F.H. King?  Get on the listserv, come to one of our workshops or events, lead one of our workshops or events, take on an internship for the semester, or volunteer at the garden.   Also watch our website for job openings. 

Do you live at a co-op or an apartment building with no room for a compost pile?  Would you like to have your compost picked up?  By bike?  Contact Micah Hahn (mbhahn@wisc.edu) for more information about F.H. King Full Cycle Freight and our bike compost program.

And as always, drop us an email at fhking.students@gmail.com to let us know about your interests and how you would like to be involved.

Listserv

To add yourself to the F.H. King listserv to receive announcements about upcoming events, internships, and job openings, fill in the information below:

Workshops and Events

F.H. King strives to create workshops, panels, movie nights, and social events that connect UW-Madison students and the Madison community to their food and the land where it comes from.  Check out our calendar for the latest upcoming events.

Past workshops have included:

• designing an verimcompost system for you apartment
• mead-making
• creating mushroom bags
• permaculture design (e.g. sheet mulching, guilds, and food forests)
• beer brewing
• urban fruit foraging
• wild edibles
• canning
• making beeswax lip balm
• Fall Harvest Fest in the garden with Slow Food UW

Look out for these possible workshops in Spring 2011!

• soap making
• DIY kefir and yogurt
• tempeh-making
• backyard mushroom cultivation and companion planting

F.H. King also hosts panels (e.g. Women's Farmer and Ecopreneur Panel) and movie nights related to sustainable agriculture.  If there is something you're interested in learning more about related to sustainable agriculture, urban homesteading, urban agriculture, etc -- please contact Micah Hahn (mbhahn@wisc.edu).

Internship Program

F.H. King is currently accepting applications for several Spring and Summer internships!  You can download the full announcement, descriptions of the internship positions, and application form by going to the Announcements page and clicking on the link below the post.  Applications will be accepted and interviews will be given on a rolling basis, but please note the specific deadlines for each available internship.

All applications should be submitted to fhking.students@gmail.com with the subject heading of the internship position you are applying for (e.g. Garden Intern Application or Historian Intern Application).  Please direct any general questions to Micah Hahn (mbhahn@wisc.edu).
 

Internships Available (listed by application deadline):

• Greenhouse Intern – Deadline: Feb. 11
• Beekeeping Intern – Deadline: Feb. 11
• Library Intern – Deadline: Feb 11
• Webmaster Intern – Deadline: Feb 11
• Historian Intern – Deadline: March 15
• Bicycle-Powered Compost Intern – Deadline: March 15
• Garden Intern – Deadline: March 15

When can I come volunteer at the garden?

Our garden hours are posted on the F.H. King calendar.

F.H. King Full Cycle Frieght

F.H. King rolled our new compost pick-up program last summer.  One day each week, Compost Interns went to two housing cooperatives on campus and Porchlight, Inc, a soup kitchen and shelter, to pick up their compostable food scraps.  The most exciting part of this program is that we did our compost pick-ups by bike, hauling a 400-lb. capacity trailer in tow.  We also used this trailer to transport produce from our farm to Library Mall where we hand out fresh produce to students for free.  Our vision is that through this program we are demonstrating a possible alternative to oil-based fuel transportation.  We cycle fresh vegetables out to the community and cycle compostable food waste back to our farm to nourish our soil – hence, the name of our bicycle-based hauling program – F.H. King Full Cycle Freight.  We are looking to grow our program this year by purchasing another trailer and increasing the number of pick-up sites on our route.

You can find out more about our program in this front-page article in the Wisconsin State Journal

We are currently accepting applications for new pick-up sites.  If you are interested in having F.H. King pick up your compost by bike and transporting it to the F.H. King garden, please fill out the attached application form and return it to Micah Hahn (mbhahn@wisc.edu).  Pick-up dates run approximately April-October.