farming

Tons of ingredients from the Northwest can be found on your Thanksgiving table.

A majority of small family farms in the United States operate with high-risk profit margins. Four years ago, Roni Ryan started goat yoga at her farmstead in Poulsbo, Wash., and it’s been a major source of income since then. But with an increasing number of challenges, even adorable baby animals may not keep her farm in the black.

In a small Idaho community, one farmer has carved out a truly different way of living. He’s growing produce off-the-grid for local buyers.

Cherry growers say the threat of deportations under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is keeping the migrant workforce they rely on this time of year from showing up to work. They describe an increasingly urgent labor crisis that could leave cherries rotting in the field, and farmers holding the bill.

Spring is officially here, and that means farmers markets are back. NWPB’s Rachel Sun visited with vendors at the first week of the Moscow Farmers Market.

Inky black ravens light on newly seeded ground.Andy Juris is planting spring soft white wheat at an elevation of 3,000 feet outside of Bickleton,…

Every October in the backyard of a Bothell home, a team of workers swarm around millions of blue orchard mason bees, to harvest the hibernating bees. The company, Rent Mason Bees, quickly takes apart and cleans the wooden nesting blocks that gardeners and farmers across the state use in the spring to house these tiny pollinators. The company offers this service as part of its mason bee rental program.

The United States Department of Agriculture is soliciting applications for funding to build farmworker housing nationwide.In the Pacific Northwest, leaders hope the money can address gaps in farmworker housing. The Pacific Northwest is in a housing crisis and that impacts rural small businesses and agricultural producers, as well as farmworkers, said Helen Price Johnson, who is the Washington State Rural Development director for the USDA.

Many Northwest apple growers are reveling in a good crop – with good quality, moderate sizing and nice color.“Most of our people around our board of…

Golden slopes full of soft, white wheat roll and dive down along the snakey, Snake River – just out of Windust in southeastern Washington.A farmer rolls a…