Whatcom Farm Speaker Series—now online!

Our in-person workshops are now on hold. In the meantime, we have complied a list of online resources to help you achieve your farming goals! We will continue to add resources to this page as we develop them.

Whatcom CD Farm Planners are available to assist you! We are still offering FREE and custom farm planning services, a $200 rebate towards barn gutters or heavy use area footing and our manure spreader loan program.

While we wait for our in-person workshops to resume, check out these 2020 virtual workshops:

Small Farm Expo 2020
Irrigation Planning: are you starting early enough?
Managing Bees for Pollination and Production
Composting Manure (Snohomish CD)
Soil Testing (Snohomish CD)
Winter paddocks (Snohomish CD)
Rotational Grazing (Snohomish CD)
Sugars in pastures (Snohomish CD)
Pastures Management Basics (Snohomish CD)
 

Below are links to videos of the previous Farm Speaker Series talks:

• A Different Kind of Prep Time for Farm Disaster Preparedness
• Agriculture Drainage Maintenance in Whatcom County
• Best Practices for Small Scale and Urban Poultry
• Customizing Fall Manure Applications for Your Soil Types
• Forage Production and Management
• Happy Healthy Horses
• Increasing Crop Diversity and Production
• Interpreting Your Soil Test for Better Crop Production
• Irrigation Water Management
• Land Management for Productive Berries
• Local Nutrient and Water Quality Research
• Principles of Producing High Quality Grass Forage 
• Troubleshooting for Manure Storage Structures   
• Winterize Your Farm
• Optimize your pasture management; talk nutrients and forage growth with a local agronomist
• Competition or Co-opetition; How local farms are cooperating to provide opportunity for all
•  What's Buzzing; Mason bees and honey bees on your farm
• Farm Funding Opportunities; Grants, incentives and costshare
• Meat the Future; Successful models in animal agriculture
•  Farms to Tables; marketing and sales from the perspective of direct market farmers
• Vet's Corner; working with a large animal vet to improve herd health

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