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April 2016
Livestock Handling and Care
Learn how to keep your livestock happy and healthy at the upcoming Livestock Handling & Care workshops presented by the WSU Snohomish County Extension Agriculture and 4-H programs.
Find out more »Forage Testing and Pasture Management
To help ensure livestock receive adequate nutrition, it’s important to know how to assess – and improve – the quality of the forage provided to our grazing animals. You’ll learn about sustainable grazing strategies, methods to improve pastures and renovate them to help provide your animals with a balanced, high quality nutrition.
Find out more »August 2016
Cultivating Success Farm Walk & Talk
Interested in farming? Not sure how to begin? Do you dream of beginning or expanding your own small farm? The Cultivating Success™ program combines workshop and on-farm learning experiences to help foster the success of new and existing farms and agri-ventures.
Find out more »September 2016
Ties to the Land Succession Planning for Forest and Farm Owning Families
Your land will outlive you. Who will care for it when you’re gone? Will it be a family legacy or a family squabble? Will it be kept intact and protected, or will it be divided up and sold off in pieces? Will it become a source of conflict between surviving family members? What is the long-term future that you want for your property? This two-part succession planning workshop explores these questions and others using the award-winning Ties to the Land…
Find out more »October 2016
H2O – Managing Your Resources: Quality, Quantity, and Water Rights
The never-ending topic of water – too much, not enough, what’s in it, or should be in it, are all questions at the top of the list for anyone trying to make a living farming. As with so many things, the less you know the more it may cost you later.
Find out more »November 2016
Compost for Farmers
You’ll learn what constitutes a high quality compost, how to make and apply it, as well as the lessons learned during WSU Extension’s extensive on-farm compost research trials. In addition, Oxbow Farm will share their experiences making and using compost along with a tour of the farm’s large, three-bin composting system.
Find out more »Gaining Access to Farmland
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. Learn more about the different options currently available from real estate and legal professionals, as well as representatives of different land trust models and farmers utilizing outside the box land sharing arrangements.
Find out more »December 2016
How to Do Farm Taxes
Just thinking about completing and filing tax forms can send shivers down the spine of even the most rugged farmer. Learn the basic nuts and bolts of filing federal and state tax reports for farm businesses as our experts help reduce the fear factor.
Find out more »February 2017
Farm Recordkeeping for Productivity & Profitability
Learn from experts how to set up a farm recordkeeping system to help keep your farm in the black! Accurate and up-to-date financial records are essential to any growing business, but are especially important to farms and agricultural businesses. Without a good recordkeeping system in place, decisions will be made based on hunches, not reality. Join us for an in-depth, two-Saturday event, February 11, 2017, 8:30am to 4:30pm and February 25, 2017, 8:30am to 3:30pm for Farm Recordkeeping for Productivity…
Find out more »March 2017
Ties to the Land Succession Planning
Learn how to guide the discussion to keep your family farm or forestland intact Do you own or care for farm or forest land? Do you know what will happen to it when you're gone? Will it be intact and protected, or will it be divided up and sold off in pieces? Will it become a point of conflict between surviving family members or a shared and honored family sanctuary? Many landowners want to preserve their family lands and associated…
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