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Spring is here! Temperatures are getting warmer, wet areas are starting to dry out, and vegetation is starting to sprout and bloom.

Whatcom County Executive Satpal Sidhu has proclaimed May as Wildfire Awareness Month in Whatcom County.  You can find the official proclamation here: https://www.whatcomcounty.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/15462.

Spring is the time to prepare for the upcoming warmer, drier summer months when the potential for wildfire increases.  

The 2021 Native Plant Sale was a huge success!!  After a lot of uncertainty and some major adaptations, we sold more plants, more bamboo stakes, and gave away more blue tubes since the first sale 28 years ago. We sold over 30,400 plants, which will help protect water quality and enhance habitat throughout the region! We can't wait to see your backyard native landscapes grow!  

Are you wondering what it’s like to work with Whatcom CD?
Read on to learn about Tristin and Derek and their Farm Planning experience!

Q: How long have you lived in Whatcom County?
A: Derek and I are born and raised in Whatcom county. We purchased this property in November 2019.
We enjoy the outdoors and appreciate having the ocean and mountains so close by.

Q: What types of animals are you raising?
A: We have 3 horses and some chickens, currently.

Are you wondering what it’s like to work with Whatcom CD?
Read on to learn about Jeff and Rebecca and their Farm Planning experience!

Q: What brought you to Whatcom County?

Are you wondering what it’s like to work with Whatcom CD?
Read on to learn about Lydia and Jared Strand and their farm planning experience!

Q: How long have you lived here in Whatcom County? And on this property?
A: We have lived in Whatcom County and on this property for just over two years.

Roger Edmonds has been an active member of the Whatcom County equine community for many years, serving as a founding board member of the Friends of Sunset Farm Park, member of the Whatcom County draft horse drill team, and current vice president of the Whatcom County Backcountry Horsemen. It has been really great working with Roger to put on workshops as part of our Farm Speaker Series. He has also taken advantage of the Conservation District planning services and poultry processing equipment rental, and now with our landowner spotlight program.

Are you wondering what it’s like to work with Whatcom CD?
Read on to learn about Jen and Leslie Heron and their Farm Planning experience!

Q:How long have you lived here in Whatcom County?
A: We bought our property October 2017 and began driving up Friday nights, working on improvements each weekend, then driving back to be ready for work on Monday. We moved here full time August 2019.

After a career as a teacher, education researcher, and policy specialist, Raegen Miller is now developing a small Custer farmstead. His productive rural oasis is complete with a salmon bearing stream, garden, a flock of laying hens, and fiber sheep. He has his eye on a number of cottage food enterprises - keep your eye out for a limited run of his tomato jam. In addition to hosting a salmon viewing on his farm last fall, Raegen has worked with Whatcom CD for custom conservation planning, small farm grants for home improvement, and now our landowner spotlight program.

Robin Probst is current the vice president of the Whatcom County Dressage and Eventing Association. Her partnership with Whatcom Conservation District includes conservation planning, soil testing, barn gutter rebate, small farm grant program, manure spreader loan. She was featured as a small farm makeover in Northwest Horse Source magazine in December 2018! Robin currently collaborates with friends to manage a residential horse property in central Whatcom County.