Topic: Food Systems
Staple Crop Assessment Within BIPOC Communities of Washington State to Support Regional, Culturally Relevant Food Systems
While some barriers have been removed over the last few years, BIPOC communities, including immigrant, refugee, tribal, and farmworker communities, have not fully participated in…
Strategic Development of the Organic Agriculture Systems Major at WSU Everett
The goal of this project was to develop innovative approaches to delivering the Organic & Sustainable Agriculture major (previously known as the “Organic Agriculture Systems”…
Participatory On-Farm Agroecological Education: Assessing the Effectiveness of a 14 year Farmer-University Partnership
Recent decades have seen a growing recognition that diverse, small, organic, and sustainable farms have been underserved by standard public agricultural research and extension paradigms…
Production Cost Estimation of Establishing a Cider Apple Orchard in Washington State
This project addresses the BIOAg priority of economic analysis by investigating the cost and returns for establishing a cider apple orchard in Washington. The enterprise…
Development of Washington Organic Producer-Level Database on Crop Yields, Sales Value, and Price
The continued growth in the organic food market presents many Washington growers with the difficult decision of whether to switch from conventional production. While a…
Agroecology of Urban Food Farming: Engaging scientists, producers and educators in collaborative BIOAg research planning
This proposal outlines the planning phase for the Agroecology of Urban Food Farming(UFF) project (previously submitted) which will analyze the effectiveness of BIOAg practices on…