Water Solutions for Farms, Fish, and Communities This major event on May 25, 2022 will bring national experts to Lynden for a discussion of the work needed to protect families, fish and farming. Event to be held at NW WA Fairgrounds Farm Pavilion in Lynden. Come for our social hour ...
Whatcom Family Farmers members and donors are invited to attend our Annual Members Meeting to be held in person on May 25, 2022 at 5:00 pm during our Solving Whatcom's Water Crisis event. Meeting will be held in the Farm Pavilion building at Northwest Washington Fairgrounds in Lynden, Washington. All ...
Whatcom County routinely experiences widespread flooding in the winter months. But this past late fall and winter was one of the worst on record and caused an estimated $1 billion in damages in nearby Abbotsford, BC and about $100 million in damages and one death in Whatcom County. Loss ...
We need your help to get state leaders to start taking Whatcom County’s water management crisis seriously, and get working on major solutions right away. Despite last November’s flooding disaster, as well as the harmful drought that came before it, the mayors of Sumas, Everson, Nooksack, Lynden and Ferndale ...
New to Washington State is a program to connect people in agriculture with resources available to them to help with a broad range of injuries that occur on and off the farm. Based in Skagit County and operating out of the WSU-Skagit Extension office, Kristen Hinton-Vanvalkenberg is the program ...
We are excited to share with you that our first online/virtual auction will be held April 6-10, 2021. Our theme for this event is Growing Our Future Together. Create your auction account today, browse through our e-catalog and begin marking your favorites. Check back often as new items are being ...
Farm workers work hard and deserve great pay, benefits and protections. You might be surprised at what most farm workers would tell you about the best way to help them. The information in the document below (download and share it) will provide the facts about farm workers, their jobs, guest ...
Why is Whatcom Family Farmers needed? Because our family farms are worth protecting. Protecting our farms requires the understanding and support of the public –– especially voters living in our cities far away from our farms. If our children are to have the opportunity to continue our multi-generation family farms, ...
