Raising sheep is no easy task, but it’s fed 14-year-old Maloi Lannan’s passion for regenerative agriculture. Lannan sold hand-drawn coloring books to buy her herd, which grew to 15 lambs this summer.

MOUNT VERNON, Washington — Dozens of food boxes were distributed Dec. 11 to Latino and indigenous Latino families in Skagit County as part of a project supporting food access and area farmers.

BOW, Washington — In 2011 Harley and Susan Soltes purchased Bow Hill Blueberries and set out to rejuvenate the 73-year-old farm’s heirloom blueberry crops through organic farming and to make the small farm sustainable again.

MOUNT VERNON, Washington — ‘Tis the season to replace the smell of hand sanitizer with that of a freshly cut tree.

LARAMIE, Wyoming —Sophie, Poppy, Rockie, Bandet and Peebs the sheep are used to visitors coming through the gate with goat cookies and carrots in their hands. But on one particular day it was different — there was a buzz around the barnyard. Even the donkeys and ponies could feel the excitement.

MOUNT VERNON, Washington —The Northwest Agriculture Business Center (NABC) in Mount Vernon will coordinate an 11-county food distribution project throughout the Puget Sound region aimed at supporting farmers, food hubs and increasing access to locally-grown foods.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A coalition of environmental and fishing groups are suing a water district in southern Oregon over an aging, privately owned dam that they say hinders the passage of struggling salmon populations in the pristine North Umpqua River.

MOUNT VERNON, Washington — On Saturday morning, a caravan of trucks loaded with hay, feed and other donations left Skagit County for Okanogan County.

ELLENSBURG, Washington — In the world of car-sized pumpkins, Aaron Hadaller has a way to go, but the Central Washington University police officer has grown some eye-popping gourds the past few years.

ELLENSBURG, Washington — Verne Rainey stood in the new artists space of the Clymer Museum/Gallery and couldn’t help but smile at the irony of it all. Then again, a little karma never hurt a guy.

BURLINGTON, Washington — Skagit County farms are exploring online sales as a way to adapt to business challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and some have reported a surge in online sales this year.

When Mark Anderson remembers his late father, two smells come to mind first: potatoes and Christmas trees.

ELLENSBURG, Washington — What started out as a portion of the farm that couldn’t be farmed turned into an orchard of bitter sweets and a thriving business of hard cider.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Local nonprofits recently teamed up to purchase $5,000 of produce from four Latino-owned farms in Skagit County and distribute it to farmworker families.

Paul Munns had a rude introduction to running a farm.

As he watched his giant pumpkin get lowered onto the scale Saturday, William Beauchere said he hoped for at least 600 pounds.

Heavy smoke from wildfires along the West Coast has created unhealthy air quality and prompted calls to stay indoors. But not everyone has the option to go inside.

The smoke hung thick in the air outside from the first major wildfire of the season. The sun had that funky, dull ball of fire glow above the smoke-filled horizon.

When farms, orchards owners, and home gardeners grow fruits and vegetables they are unable to sell or eat, gleaners ensure the fresh, local produce doesn’t go to waste.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Wildfires fanned by high winds burned hundreds of thousands of acres in the Northwest, mostly destroying a small town in eastern Washington state and causing evacuations, power outages and highway closures in Oregon.

Governors from 22 Western states and Pacific territories want a bigger say in how the Trump administration defines habitat for wildlife protected under the Endangered Species Act, the AP reports. The new definition could have implications for how states manage imperiled animals and plants, the Western Governors Association said in a letter...

DUBOIS — Bonnie Stoddard knows the history of Idaho’s sparsest county.

“It has to be more than love. It's also a business.”

Packages of mystery seeds from foreign countries have been showing up in the mailboxes of residents throughout the country, including some in Skagit County, and agricultural officials are asking recipients to not plant them and instead turn them in for investigation.

MERRILL, Oregon — A local potato processing plant that reported several COVID-19 cases to Oregon Health Authority is back in full operation, with all employees recovered and back on the job.

MOUNT VERNON, Washington — As chef Gilbert Rodriguez prepared spaghetti with summer vegetables last week on the campus of Skagit Valley College, he made sure each step was accompanied by a lesson.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday threw a significant curveball at a coalition that has been planning for years to demolish four massive hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border to save salmon populations that have dwindled to almost nothing.

MIDLAND, Washington — This summer, anyone driving through Klamath Project land will likely pass by many empty fields, left fallow after farms received only 40 percent of their required water allocation this year.