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🎉 FAIR REGISTRATION IS OPEN! 🎉 The countdown to the Skagit County Fair has begun! 🐄🐖🐑🐐🐇🐓 ALL animal entries must be registered with the Skagit County Fair by the SECOND […]

A Community Preparedness and Resilience Guide for Eastern Washington Prepared in collaboration with resources from: WSU Extension • 4-H Youth Development • County Partners Tools for Togetherness is more than […]

Washington State University Skagit County Extension Washington State University Extension engages people, organizations and communities to advance economic well-being and quality of life by connecting them to the knowledge base […]

Monitoring for Spotted Wing Drosophila Begins in Skagit County  Monitoring for Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) in blueberry fields throughout Skagit County began on May 26, 2026. Traps are checked weekly to track […]

June 27 Open House to Showcase “Jewel of a Teaching Garden”  MOUNT VERNON –The WSU Extension Skagit County Master Gardener Discovery Garden officially took root in 1996 and over the […]

On June 5, the Pizza for Producers team fired up the wood-fired oven at the Skagit County Historical Museum to help celebrate the opening of Where Our Food Comes From, a […]

The Skagit County Commissioners approved a proclamation declaring June 27, 2026 as WSU Extension Skagit County Master Gardener Discovery Garden Day. On Tuesday, June 2, the Skagit County Commissioners officially proclaimed […]

For four weeks this spring, fifteen participants from across northwest Washington invested their evenings learning one of agriculture’s most important skills: how to work safely around farm equipment and machinery. […]

On Wednesday afternoon, Washington State University’s statewide College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) Leadership Bus Tour made a stop at the WSU Skagit County Extension Office, bringing […]

When Dean Raj Khosla and the Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) leadership team visited WSU Skagit County Extension on May 27, they encountered […]

Here’s What to Expect Spring in Skagit County means one thing for gardeners: it’s time for the Plant Fair. On Saturday, May 9, 2026, the Skagit County Master Gardener Foundation […]

We had all hands on deck for our Pizza 4 Producers event. This P4P was in conjunction with the Skagit Ag Summit, which is an annual gathering hosted by WSU […]