Sustenance

11/09/2015

One of our favorite fall foods, squash recipes are as diverse as they are delicious.

07/09/2015

yay!

Another 1,000 acres of Skagit County farmland will be preserved forever against development after funding was included last week in the state’s capital budget.

07/08/2015

I'm afraid Sustenance is experiencing problems, too. Although we have irrigation at Viva Farms, where I lease my land, I am still dealing with a lot of heat stress this year.

How Washington's Drought Is Affecting Local Farms

06/30/2015

As part of our ongoing series, we are highlighting a different leading woman in agriculture each month. This month, we profile Casey Cox, the Executive Director of the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District. In this role, she manages the Flint River Partnership, an agricultural…

06/17/2015

"“90 percent of fruits and vegetables are not self-pollinating,” said Janice Hutton, horticulturalist with The Sabine River Authority in Sabine Parish, Louisiana.

Fruits and vegetables almost entirely depend upon pollinators. Every living person and thing that depends on fruits and vegetables depends on pollinators too."

At a comfortable 62 degrees, honeybees buzz with a clear objective: collect nectar and pollen, for honey and pollination.

05/05/2015

A huge thank you to WSU Associate Professor and entomologist Beverly Gerdeman for a successful Integrated Pest Management farm walk yesterday! We had lots of attendants with sharp eyes and excellent questions. Stay tuned for more informative farm walks here at Viva over the season!

04/27/2015

Food Tank shares small, sustainable ways to help grow a better food system - minus the dirty hands.

04/27/2015

04/21/2015

The burgeoning interest in non-GMO foods has increased how much they get paid to grow crops.

04/17/2015

Beautiful photo essay

The stories of farms, farmers, and their food. Seattle area based author and photographer. Audra Mulkern passionately documents farm-to-market and farm-to-table. Women farmers are tasked with farming, family and often an outside job. The Female Farmer Project is about documenting the rise and the s…

04/15/2015

I hope to be selling produce through the Puget Sound Food Hub this year.

So, why does farm size matter? As the total number of farms goes down, the number of big* farms is going up. And this shift hurts rural America. A review of ...