EVERETT – Due to the overwhelming response to last fall’s series, WSU Snohomish County Extension and Beez Neez Apiary Supply are sponsoring another apprentice level course in the Master Beekeeper Program. The five-week course serves as a thorough introduction to beekeeping for novice beekeepers as well as a comprehensive refresher course for experienced apiculturists. […]
WSU Extension 4-H staff in Puyallup: Carey Roos, left, Linda Williams, Tony Dell, Darlene Munson, Betsy Fradd and Kevin Wright. (Photo by Dana Schlenker, Center for Distance and Professional Education, Puyallup) Employees of WSU Extension in Puyallup recently donated new pajamas and books to help young people in Pierce County. The items collected by […]
PULMAN – Production of high quality beef and beef products will be the focus of the second Beef 300 short course scheduled Jan. 7-10 at WSU and the University of Idaho. The event is offered by WSU and University of Idaho Extension, and the WSU Department of Animal Sciences in cooperation with the Washington Cattlemen’s […]
PULLMAN – Donald Meehan, Coupeville, director of WSU Extension’s Natural Resource Stewardship Program, received the 2008 Western Regional Excellence in Extension Award Sunday in Chicago. The honor is one of five regional awards and one national award given annually by the National Association of State University of Land-Grant Colleges for excellence in educational programming. […]
PUYALLUP – WSU entomologist and eco-toxicologist John Stark has been named the new director of the WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center. Stark succeeds Jon Newkirk who has been director of the center for the past four years. Newkirk recently resigned as director at the historic Puyallup facility but will continue his affiliation with WSU […]
A microphoto of a phytochemical, courtesy of WSU Extension. PULLMAN – Research on the benefits of phytochemicals in apples and raspberries will expand to include other major Washington crops, continuing a project that a WSU scientist began last year. Bernd M. Lange, assistant professor in WSU’s Institute of Biological Chemistry, spearheaded the research project, […]
Photo: WSU Spokane Extension Master Gardeners Levi Strauss, left, Wayne Green and Brigitta ozefowski discuss a strategy for dealing with a caterpillar outbreak. (Photo courtesy of WSU Extension Spokane) By Robert Frank, WSU Today Spiders and beetles and flies. Oh my! Eggs and bugs in my food! Oh yuk! ‘Tis […]
Among its many benefits, Walking to Wellness has helped strengthen connections between family members who walk together. Here, Maritza Christensen of Cashmere walks with her two daughters, Carolyn and Kelsey. (photo courtesy of Margaret Viebrock) Despite the absence of Gold’s Gym in rural parts of Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan counties, residents are finding opportunities to […]
Photos by Amy Grotta, WSU King County Extension forester For many high school students, spending part of summer vacation getting up early to carpool several miles to bushwhack over difficult terrain through stinging nettles and salmonberry thickets to gather data on the forest wouldn’t appeal. But 11 King County students did just […]
Photos by Dennis Brown, CAHNRS, WSU Extension PULLMAN – The economics of various crop rotations, research on soil surface residue and soil organic matter in direct seeding, as well as herbicide trials in oil seed crops were just a few of the topics covered during field tours at the Palouse Conservation Station Field Day […]