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.
