Peninsula: State aid to help small farmers if they're "sustainable"

Clallam County, WA - Small-farm operators will get assistance marketing their products with the help of a new state law.

The law, signed by the Gov. Gary Locke on June 15, provides $300,000 in state and federal funding for the next two years to the state Department of Agriculture to create a marketing assistance program for small farms.

Members of the Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network, a nonprofit group which provides education for and about small farms, lobbied for the bill, which builds on a $40,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant several years ago that provided the first assistance to small farms.

from Peninsula Daily News, 7/2/01

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