Organic Seed Workshop & Helping Property Owners Obtain Mitigation Water

Organic Seed Workshop & Helping Property Owners Obtain Mitigation Water

I’m Lacy Gray with Washington Ag Today.

As part of the Organic Seed Project the Greenbank Farm Ag Training Center and the Organic Seed Alliance will be offering a two day free workshop January 16th - 17th entitled “Working With Seed: Creating Strong Farms” where farmers and gardeners can learn how to access, grow, and improve their crop seeds. Topics to be discussed will include crop improvement techniques and seed saving, conducting variety trials and accessing other trial results, and adapting and marketing seed for Pacific Northwest conditions. Nathaniel Talbot, a Greenbank Farm intern, talks about his work with seeds.

TALBOT: Saving seed, and stewarding seed, and breeding seed seemed like a really cool proactive way where you could be involved with a really important issue.

Greenbank Farm’s work on organic seed is funded in part through a grant from the WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.

A public workshop to help property owners obtain mitigation water and apply for building permits under the new Dungeness water management rule will be held by the Washington Department of Ecology and Clallam County January 17th at the Sequim Transit Center in Sequim. New groundwater withdrawals are required to be offset or mitigated as of January 2nd, the date the rule went into effect. Well owners with a building permit issued or new water use established before January 2 do not need to meet the mitigation requirements. For more information or workshop times visit the Department of Ecology website.

I’m Lacy Gray and that’s Washington Ag Today on the Ag Information Network.