The WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences is proud to announce the newest group of leaders at Research and Extension Centers across the state, at Mount Vernon, Wenatchee, and Puyallup. Carol Miles…
Chad Kruger, current director of WSU’s Northwestern Washington Research & Extension Center (NWREC) in Mount Vernon, the Puyallup Research & Extension Center, and the Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources (CSANR), will become the…
New director brings international perspective to the future of food Starting July 1, 2020, Carol Miles is the new interim director of Washington State University’s Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center (NWREC) at Mount Vernon. A horticulturist who finds solutions for growing better vegetables, Miles has worked for 25 years at WSU. “I like to […]
Business partner sought to commercially propagate new red raspberry cultivar
Extension scientists work with Northwest growers, educators and industries to create knowledge that improves our fruit, vegetable and grain crops, empowers student learning and develops communities. Extension faculty are authors who every month share the results of their work through peer-reviewed online publications. Newly published WSU Extension guides include: The 2019 Pest Management Guide for Grapes […]
As the first culinary director of the Bread Lab — Washington State University’s Burlington-based research center for bread and grains — Niels Brisbane is pioneering foods and flavors that help Washington farmers, chefs and communities thrive. Hired earlier this year, the former sous chef at Seattle’s landmark Canlis restaurant develops dishes that bring Bread Lab […]
WSU alumni & raspberry farmers Adam and Julie Enfield joined WSU dignitaries like CAHNRS Dean Wright to present a $1.5 million check for the endowed chair.
Helping farmers grow raspberries more sustainably, Huan Zhang, graduate student in the Department of Horticulture, has won an award from the American Society for Horticultural Science for his research on biodegradable mulches. A winner in the Scholars Ignite competition, Zhang presented his doctoral research at the society’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. Propagating raspberries by […]
Lindsey du Toit, vegetable seed pathologist at Washington State University’s Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center at Mount Vernon, is a co-primary investigator on a $7.3 million, four-year grant to find the genetic traits that will make sweet corn taste better, last longer and grow better across the nation. The project is funded by the […]
Worldwide, gardeners and growers are using grafts to create hardier, healthier vegetable plants. Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, cucumbers, and nearly all the watermelon produced in Japan, Korea, southern Spain and Italy, Turkey, and Greece are grafted. By merging the roots and stalks of two separate vegetables into a single plant, grafting helps vegetables fight soil-borne pests […]
