Posted on December 6, 2019 at 10:01 AM by Allan Warren
Help keep your livestock out of local
waterbodies with this Off-Stream Watering
Device, or Nose Pump, which is now
available for loan in our farm resources.
The loan is free with a $50 deposit.
Stream, pond, and lake banks are
all susceptible to the same types of
damage from livestock. And since water
from most lakes and ponds outlets into
a creek, what happens
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Posted on September 4, 2019 at 8:52 AM by Allan Warren
In honor of our 70th Anniversary, we are running
a 70-days of Conservation campaign. In addition
to all of our great planting events and farm
workshops, farmers can join us in our effort to
make our community better by implementing
best practices with support from our Regional
Conservation Partnership Program.
Do you have improvements you’d like
to make on your farm in the coming
next year? Would you like assistance
in planning those improvements and
help finding a way to help pay for them?
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Posted on September 4, 2019 at 8:23 AM by Allan Warren
Join us and the Xerces Society on November 19th for a pollinator workshop and learn how you can become a Pollinator Pal by restoring pollinator habitat on your own property.
At least 600 species of native bees in
Washington contribute to the important
work of pollinating favorite local crops
like squashes, cucumbers, berries and
apples. Three-quarters of all flowering
plants and roughly 35% of food crops
depend on pollinators to reproduce!
The abundance and diversity of native
bees and other pollinators on farms,
and their contribution to pollination
and crop productivity are enhanced
when
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