CULTIVATE THE SOIL: RESOURCES FOR BEGINNING AND SMALL-SCALE FARMERS AND RANCHERS IN WASHINGTON STATE

Mary Embleton of Cascade Harvest and Puget Sound Fresh sent this information out today. This is a new publication.

CULTIVATE THE SOIL:
RESOURCES FOR BEGINNING AND SMALL-SCALE FARMERS AND RANCHERS IN WASHINGTON STATE
Megan McPhaden
Washington State Housing Finance Commission
Beginning Farmer/Rancher Loan Program
Fall 2008

You don't need The Ponderosa to farm. Your backyard, the top of your garage, containers on your lanai, a bowl of greens on your kitchen counter all produce food. This downloadable PDF file provides you with good information, live links to resources that give you a wide range of information.

Mary wrote:
Produced by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission's
Beginning Farmer/Rancher Loan Program,
this resource is now online [Beginning Farmer/Rancher Loan Program]: www.wshfc.org/FarmRanch/resources.pdf.

If you would like to receive a copy of "Cultivate the Soil" in the mail, please contact Viet Tran at 206.287.4482 or viet.tran@wshfc.org

For questions concerning the Beginning Farmer/Rancher Loan Program, please contact
Tia Peycheff at 206.287.4416, tia.peycheff@wshfc.org or
Dan Schilling at 206.287.4415, dan.schilling@wshfc.org

Please distribute this to anyone you think may be interested!