The Team

Four people holding harvested broccoli heads in a farm field with crates of broccoli in the background.
Staff with sheep in a field
Staff in field of fava beans in bloom
Person on a tractor with tilled field in the packground
Researcher holding a broccoli plant near their head
Researcher holding a handful of wet Ulva seaweed with the backdrop of production geoduck nursery collars that are covered in excess seaweed.

Dr. Doug Collins, website owner
Small Farms Educator, Soil Scientist
Extension, College of Agricultural, Human, & Natural Resource Sciences
Washington State University – Puyallup

Samantha Shortledge
Scientific Assistant
College of Agricultural, Human, & Natural Resource Sciences
Washington State University – Puyallup

Nicole Jain Capizzi
Research Assistant – Graduate
Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Washington State University – Puyallup

Collaborators

Stephen Bramwell
Extension Director & Agriculture Faculty
Washington State University – Thurston County Extension

Todd Murray
Director, Puyallup Research & Extension
Washington State University

Chris Benedict
Regional Extension Specialist; WaSHI Lead
Washington State University – Whatcom County Extension


Dr. Maren Friesen
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
Washington State University

Dr. Deirdre Griffin
Assistant Professor
Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Washington State University – Mount Vernon

Dr. Craig Cogger (retired)
Soil Scientist & Extension Soil Scientist
Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Washington State University – Puyallup

Dr. Markus Flury
Professor
Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Washington State University – Puyallup

Elizabeth Myhre
Agricultural Technician
Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Washington State University – Mount Vernon

Andy Bary (retired)
Senior Scientific Assistant
Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
Washington State University – Puyallup

Program Alumni