Financing for Beginning Farmers/Ranchers in Today’s Economy, Wednesday, October 21, from 6:30 – 9:00 pm at Centralia College, New Science Center, Room 215, located at 600 Centralia College Blvd, Centralia, WA. Also, Wednesday, October 22, from 6:30 – 9:00 pm at Snohomish PUD Commission Room, 2320 California Street, Everett, WA. Free pizza will be served at 6:15.
Three topics will be presented: Where is the Money – How do I Get it? Value Added Producer Grant and FarmLink, Passing on the Farming Tradition. The speakers are from Cascade Harvest Coalition, Northwest Farm Credit Services, USDA Farm Service Agency, USDA Rural Development, Washington State Department of Agriculture, and the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. The workshop in Everett is co-sponsored by the Snohomish County Economic Development Division.
To reserve a space, contact 1-800-767-4663 or email askusCP@wshfc.org. There is no charge for the program.
About Jim Freeman
Jim is a real estate broker and licensed loan originator in Kitsap County, WA. He is also an angel investor in a software company, a children's toy product development and sales company, a biogas energy company, a CSA member and a pastured poultry operation on an Olympic Peninsula certified organic farm. As a business owner and investor Jim knows the central importance importance of local agriculture and looks to buy local food and invest in local food producers and processors whenever possible.
