Are you interested in being a vendor at the Olympia Farmers Market in 2013? Applications are now being accepted for produce and nursery farmers only. The craft category will not be open.
Are you interested in being a vendor at the Olympia Farmers Market in 2013? Applications are now being accepted for produce and nursery farmers only. The craft category will not be open.
If you are a farmer in Thurston, Mason, Lewis or Grays Harbor County, you can call 360-352-9096, or email Ashley@olympiafarmersmarket.com, and ask for an application.
The application for a concealed pistol license in Washington State is a three-page form that asks for routine biographical and citizenship information. It also includes the following yes-or-no questions. The answers are reviewed as part of the applicant’s background check:
An attempt by the Washington Farm Labor Association to recruit Mexican workers to help harvest the state's crops this year is off to a good start.
About 3,600 Mexican workers already have submitted applications to work for Washington farmers through the federal H-2A temporary agricultural program after a job fair in Mexico.
Felix Vargas of Pasco said the job fair -- held Monday in the border town of Nogales, Mexico, about 60 miles south of Tucson, Ariz. -- appears to be a success. He and other members of the Washington Farm Labor Association represented about 25 farmers at the event.
The Tumwater City Council will interview six applicants Saturday who are interested in filling a seat vacated with the retirement of council member Judith Hoefling in December.
Zach Ouellette of Tacoma was 16 years old two summers ago, working at the Proctor District Farmers Market with his mother, a market regular known as Cheryl the Pig Lady.
The Supreme Court said Monday that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto Co.'s patents on soybean seeds resistant to its weed-killer by growing the beans without buying new seeds from the corporation.
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