Snohomish Conservation District's Wet Feet Farming initiative and Bountiful Buffers program are making waves in the local farming community!
Wet Feet Farming aims to rejuvenate water-logged farmlands by integrating perennial crops that thrive in damp conditions— allowing farmers to increase productivity, improve climate resilience, diversify income streams, and enhance biodiversity. Snohomish CD also runs the Bountiful Buffers program, which combines traditional riparian buffers (trees planted along fish-bearing rivers/streams to improve salmon habitat) with agroforestry practices that enhance biodiversity and produce food, medicine, and other materials.
Snohomish CD is working with other districts in the region to spread awareness of agroforestry practices throughout the Puget Sound.
Thank you for your work, Snohomish Conservation District!
The San Juan Islands Conservation District (SJICD) is honored to collaborate with the Northwest Indian College in the formation and development of the Coast Salish Guardians Program on the Lummi Reservation.
Cascadia Conservation District Supported residents at the Housing Authority of Chelan County and the City of Wenatchee with bilingual gardening and nutrition education courses. They also identified and linked communities in need of mobile food bank delivery and overcoming language and/or transportation barriers.
When a local Washington conservation district, Cascadia, evaluated the launch plan for a wildfire preparedness program in partnership with a federal agency, they discovered the program wasn’t reaching the intended audience.
