For years, the question of what to do about the wineries and tasting rooms outside Woodinville has split wine country and ignited debate over the future of the neighboring Sammamish Valley.
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French fries are doing just fine
Despite a weak harvest for many potato farmers in the United States and Canada, supplies aren’t likely to run out anytime soon.
Washington’s new Cosmic Crisp apple officially launches sales
The 2019 statewide Cosmic Crisp crop is expected to reach nearly a half-million 40-pound boxes.
Forced to sell the family farm after 240 years
The Hulls can no longer handle the strenuous physical work needed to earn enough to keep up with the taxes, insurance, mortgages, barn maintenance and...
Beagle brigade is last line of defense against African swine fever in U.S.
The federal agents keeping our pork supply free from disease that has decimated Chinese pigs work for treats.
Indoor farming is one of the decade’s hottest trends, but regulations make success elusive VIEW
How to feed a hotter, more crowded planet is the question of the century. Indoor urban agriculture offers one answer — but it's not a...
New food-poisoning outbreak: Don’t eat romaine grown in Salinas, California
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday told people to avoid romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, because of another food poisoning outbreak....
Growing produce inside the grocery store? Some QFCs try a new approach WATCH
The first harvest of greens at those stores will come next week, and the company plans to expand to 15 QFCs in Washington and Oregon...
Inside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industry
Mexico's multibillion-dollar avocado industry has become a prime target for cartels, which have been seizing farms and clearing protected woodlands to plant their own groves...
Botanists scour old Northwest homesteads for long-lost apple varieties VIEW
The two botanists with the nonprofit Lost Apple Project scour county fair records, newspaper clippings and nursery sales ledgers to figure out which varieties existed...