Modest Family Solutions Receives Cost Share Award

Modest Family Solutions Receives Cost Share Award

Modest Family Solutions is a non-profit on the front lines of addressing food insecurity. They grow food using sustainable, innovative gardening techniques like hydroponics (growing crops without soil) and aquaponics (using fish waste as nutrients while also filtering the water). They also manage the Agroecology Center in Everett, which leads community youth programs that teach the basics of gardening, composting, and hydroponics farming.

As a recipient of our Lawns to Lettuce cost share award, Modest Family Solutions is using the funding to increase vegetable production from the aquaponics and hydroponics gardening systems.

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Stanwood Dairy Hosts Governor Inslee in Partnership Meeting

Stanwood Dairy Hosts Governor Inslee in Partnership Meeting

“This was a great opportunity to demonstrate the value of public-private partnerships, multi-benefit projects, and locally led actions,” said District Manager of the Snohomish Conservation District Monte Marti. “It highlights the commitment to and importance of voluntary stewardship efforts by private landowners.”

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Snohomish County Council Member Tour with Monte Marti from Snohomish Conservation District

Snohomish County Council Member Tour with Monte Marti from Snohomish Conservation District

On Monday May 15th, the Snohomish Conservation District (SCD) invited out Council Members Brian Sullivan and Stephanie Wright, to join District Manager, Monte Marti, on a tour around south Snohomish County to view completed stormwater treatment projects within their districts (2 and 3). 

The tour consisted of a rain garden on an right of way and a property owner’s house in Edmonds, the Mukilteo Library, Mukilteo Elementary School to view their outdoor classroom, and condominiums along 112th St. SE in Everett.

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Vim Wright Award Honors Two Locals

Vim Wright Award Honors Two Locals

Two local residents were recently awarded the Vim Wright ‘Building Bridges’ award at the 2016 annual meeting of the Washington Association of Conservation Districts in Bellingham. This year’s award went to Tristan Klesick, Klesick Farms and Terry Williams, Tulalip Tribes.

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