Washington farming

Flower farmers from around western Washington arrived early one Saturday morning for the 15th Annual Flower Festival at Pike Place Market. KNKX's Parker Miles Blohm joined them to photograph the peak of petal season.

More than a million chickens at a farm in Franklin County, Washington, are set to be destroyed because of bird flu. Officials are now deliberating on how to transport, bury, compost or incinerate the birds.

Record heat across the Northwest is taking a toll on agriculture – both the crops and the workers who harvest them. Central Washington farmer Alan…

Cool offshore flow and mild summer heat normally make western Washington an ideal place to grow red raspberries. The state commission for that crop…

Locally grown foods are better for the environment; it takes fewer resources and produces fewer greenhouse gases to get them from farm to table.And a new…

Washington state apple farmers have the second largest crop in history but too few pickers to get it all in this harvest.

Spokane, Wash. – Thursday’s Washington Supreme Court holding that large livestock operations need not have permits for the water they pump could spell…