The WSU Grant/Adams County Master Gardeners will be offering gardening and landscaping classes at the Grant County Fair this year. The 30-minute mini seminars will cover a variety of topics including basic vegetable gardening, landscaping with native plants, designing a lake-friendly shoreline, protecting our lakes and aquifers, and making gardening easier. All the classes are [...]
Grant County Solid Waste, WSU Master Gardeners, and Washington State Department of Ecology are teaming up to bring high level instructors from around the state to Moses Lake to offer a complete Master Composter Program. Topics for this series include: biology of composting, designing and building your own compost bins, using worms to recycle, and [...]
WASHINGTON, August 10, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is undertaking an unprecedented effort to use the department’s administrative flexibility to provide relief to individuals and businesses in struggling agriculture industries. Vilsack has ordered USDA Rural Development and the Farm Service Agency to use all available means to help producers, processors [...]
Wenatchee, Wash… Washington’s tree fruit industry is assisting 105 students this fall with scholarships valued at $350,000 through the industry’s charitable foundation, the Washington Apple Education Foundation (WAEF). In total, 120 scholarships were awarded to this year’s group of students, the highest number in the Foundation’s history. “This is the year students needed us to [...]
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Vilsack today announced that the Obama Administration is taking immediate action to support struggling dairy farmers by increasing the amount paid for dairy products through the Dairy Product Price Support Program (DPPSP). USDA estimates show that these increases, which will be in place from August 2009 through October [...]
WEST SALEM, Wis., July 16, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that $760 million from the Supplemental Appropriations Act signed by President Obama is available for approved but previously unfunded USDA direct farm ownership and operating loans throughout the country. Vilsack made this national announcement today at the Obama Administration’s ‘Rural Tour’ Community [...]
Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed an amendment by House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) to ensure that the Bureau of Reclamation has the necessary resources to begin the installation of six new hydropower facilities in the West. The amendment was passed as part of the 2009 Energy and Water Appropriations Act. [...]
The Grant County Fair runs from August 18 through 22 this year. The 2009 fair theme is “Bushels, Bales, and Tails off to the Grant County Fair”. So if you have any top quality, sweetly aromatic, weed-free, green, soft and leafy hay, bring it to the fairgrounds Hay King tent on Saturday, August 15 from [...]
Clint Black Prolific singer-songwriter Clint Black will grace the stage of the Benton-Franklin County Fair Tuesday night. A fixture at country-music award shows, Black’s list of chart-topping singles, such as “When I Said I Do” (a duet with wife Lisa Hartman Black), “The Shoes You’re Wearing” and “Money or Love,” are instantly recognizable to audiences [...]
Tillers Folly Friday night, Grant County fairgoers will be treated to a blend of history, music, romance and fun from Tiller’s Folly, a band whose music rolls out a graceful mix of Celtic-influenced Canadiana, Americana ‘and beyond.’ Songwriter and lead singer Bruce Coughlan has mined the colorful history of the Pacific Northwest with the help [...]
