Everett Herald backs WSU plan for Western Washington ag

The Everett Herald this week editorialized in support of WSU’s supplemental operating budget request for $832,000 to develop academic programming to support agriculture in Western Washington. You can read the editorial here.

If funded, the program would be centered at WSU North Puget Sound at Everett, though some instruction would also be available at WSU research and extension centers in Mount Vernon and Puyallup. The expansion would in the near term offer degrees in agriculture, organic agriculture, and food security. In the out years, degrees would be offered in urban horticulture and food systems.

The editorial stressed that now is the time for action to be taken as the demand for healthy food continues to grow across the nation and as consumers take an interest in looking to local farms to produce viable and healthy crops.

The 2016 legislative session is scheduled to begin Jan. 11.