January 10, 2017 (Tuesday) 8:45AM – 3:00PM WSU Snohomish County, 600 128th St SE, Everett, WA 98208 NABC is partnering with the USDA Rural Development Department to present a day-long workshop to support local agricultural producers with their development of USDA Value Added Producer Grant applications. This important USDA program has benefited many producers throughout the…
February 16, 2017 (Thursday) 8:45 AM – 4:00 PM Brightwater Treatment Center, 22505 State Route 9 S.E., Woodinville, WA 98072-6010 Cider is the fastest growing craft beverage in North America. To support the industry and provide sources of high tannin specialty cider apples and perry pears, new orchards must be planted & managed, and fruit…
WSU Snohomish and King County Extension in partnership with the Snohomish Conservation District will offer Cultivating Success: Agricultural Entrepreneurship and Farm Business Planning to help new and current farmers gain skills in business planning and direct marketing. The course runs Monday evenings January 9, 2017 through March 20, 2017, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. along…
Access to Capital for New and Beginning Farmers and Food Businesses Tuesday, January 24, 2016 Seafarers Memorial Park, Anacortes, WA 98221 Farm businesses need access to capital whether it’s a new business start-up, a business expansion, purchasing land or new equipment, or building inventories to support a market expansion. All Beginning Farmers and Food Businesses…
Background: The Puget Sound Food Hub Cooperative (PSFHC) is a farmer owned cooperative operating in the Puget Sound region. The PSFHC combines marketing, aggregation, and distribution for member farms and ranches. The goal is to develop relationships between local farms and businesses/institutions with a vision of creating healthier communities while expanding economic opportunities for local…
What: 2017 NW WA Farm-to-Table Trade Meeting When: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 8:30am-5pm Where: Bellingham Technical College Registration and Details: www.sustainableconnections.org Price: Early bird – Sustainable Connections members $39, non-members $49 The Northwest Washington Farm-to-Table Trade Meeting, a one-day conference for food and farming businesses of all kinds to connect, network, and learn, will be…
One of the biggest barriers farmers face is access to good quality land. Land around urban areas can be more than double the cost of rural land – yet this is where anyone using a direct market model needs to be located to be successful. Due to competition from development, land prices are being pushed…
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016, 9am-noon Great compost — it doesn’t just happen! The benefits of compost are well known; early agriculturalists learned they could grow more with the addition of well-rotted manure. Today, we have a better understanding of how composted organic matter affects much more than just crop yield. It can alter the water…
Just thinking about completing and filing tax forms can send shivers down the spine of the most rugged farmer. Confusion over which forms to use for what and when along with the unique challenges to be found when trying to plug your data into their form makes for an aggravating task that usually gets puts…
