“It has been a joy to work with Dan on some of his sustainability efforts,” says Eric Schuh, Senior Resource Planner at Snohomish Conservation District. “You can tell he’s passionate about improving the land he’s working on, while also improving the surrounding habitat and involving the community in his efforts.”
Read MorePhoto credit: Bill Pierce, Photovoice 2017
Read MoreFrom the Herald with story published on May 23, 2021 by Julia Titone -
Snohomish County’s diverse agricultural community is learning to survive a bushel of challenges.
“Farming has been taking resources from the land in a sense,” Brausieck (SCD Resource Planner) said.
But agroforestry allows farmers to harvest food in a way that’s protecting natural resources and regenerating the land.
“It’s creating a way for farming to be part of the solution,” she said.
Photo credit: Kevin Clark, Everett Herald
Read MoreQuestion and Answer session with Cindy Dittbrenner, SCD Natural Resource Program Manager
Photo by Hannah Letinich with The Nature Conservancy
Read More"Jeremy Visser shows his daughter, Leia, 4, some one-day-old dehydrated manure in his manurecompost barn. Having the liquid removed, the manure is soft and feathery. They use it for the cows to sleep on instead of wood chips." (Dan Bates / The Herald)
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