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Using NEAR sciences to address community health : a primer
No full textMany communities experience high rates of risk factors that can impact life-long health outcomes. The NEAR sciences (neuroscience, epigenetics, adverse childhood experiences, and resilience) can help prevention practitioners within and outside of Extension understand how to address these risks using approaches like trauma-informed care and building protective factors in at-risk communities. Collective impact groups can network to provide wrap-around supports and services to communities and families. Kitsap Strong, a collective impact program in Kitsap County, is an example of a network utilizing NEAR sciences and trauma-informed care
Perspectives from stakeholders on the food energy water nexus in metropolitan Seattle
No full textFood, energy, and water (FEW) are deeply intertwined in modern agricultural production, consumption, and management. Policies aimed at increasing local food production and consumption are likely to affect all three FEW sectors as well as the practical and economic relations of producers and consumers to those sectors. This publication synthesizes interview data collected in the summer of 2016 to provide a snapshot of the thoughts of food producers, major agricultural commodity buyers, and policy-makers on topics related to food, agriculture, land-use planning, and energy and water resources around an urban setting. We found that connections between water and food production were well understood by northwestern Washington stakeholders, whereas connections between energy and food and water and energy were less understood or discussed. Many interviewees expressed a desire to work toward improved coordination and collaboration across agencies and organizations, to set goals for sustainable food production in the region, and to address institutional barriers to meeting those goals. Two competing, but not mutually exclusive, visions for a more sustainable regional food system emerged from interviewees: a sharp urban-agricultural boundary vision and a mixed urban-agricultural boundary model. These two models often are at odds with actions of key local agencies. Additionally, it was not clear if a strong, local desire for local food would enhance or exacerbate future food, energy, and water resources
Integrated management of feral rye in winter wheat
No full textFeral rye (Secale cereale L.), also known as volunteer or cereal rye, is a troublesome weed in winter wheat production systems in the low and intermediate rainfall zones of eastern Washington and Oregon and southern Idaho. Rye has been grown in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) for seed and as a cover crop, as well as for forage in hay production systems, pastures, and range. It has also been used in wildlife and soil conservation seed mixtures. Regional weed scientists think our current feral rye management problems in winter wheat originated when rye plants used for these other purposes escaped into cultivated fields. Since then, feral rye plants with the most “weedy” characteristics (for example, early seed shatter and long seed dormancy) have thrived in the winter wheat–fallow rotations of the region
