Growers

Local-grown, take it home.

This campaign is designed to help you sell more products in state. To take full advantage of the Heart of Washington multi-media campaign, public relations, promotions and grocery store outreach we encourage you to use the Heart of Washington logo on your products. Ordering stickers to place on boxes, bags etc. can do this or you can contact the Heart of Washington office and arrange tohave the logo printed directly on your packaging ‚ at no charge to you!

About Heart of Washington

From the Heart of Washington is a campaign designed to increase demand for Washington agricultural and food products by Washington buyers, and to present an accurate picture of the value of agriculture as part of the state's economy and its key role in sustaining rural communities.

The objectives of From the Heart of Washington are:

  1. to illustrate the benefits of the agricultural industry on the economy, lifestyle and environment of the state, and
  2. to emphasize the broad variety of high-quality, safe and healthy products grown in Washington and the people who produce them.

Agriculture employs more people than any other industry in Washington and supports thousands of families in the state's urban and rural communities. From the Heart of Washington reminds people that buying local agricultural products helps to ensure a healthy economy in our state. It has unified government, retailers, producers and consumers in a celebration of products ‘from our home to your home.’

The three-year-long campaign was funded out of a one-time federal grant issued in the fall of 2001 to help support agriculture in Washington state, and across the nation. It highlights the state's diverse seasonal crops, livestock, processed foods, wine, nursery products and seafood. From the Heart of Washington's outreach efforts are concentrated primarily in the heavily populated Puget Sound area, and communicated to the public through promotions. Look for the logo in local grocery stores.

  • More than 300 commodities are produced in Washington.According to the most current information from the National Agriculture Statistics Service.
  • Washington ranks first in the nation for production of 12 commodities, including red raspberries, hops, spearmint oil, apples, wrinkled seed peas, sweet cherries, lentils, pears, concord grapes, dry edible peas, processing carrots and processing sweet corn.
  • Washington apples are sold in all 50 states and in more than 40 countries.Washington produces more than half of the nation's entire apple crop.
  • The state ranks in the top five nationwide in production for 29 different agricultural products.
  • Washington's potato growers have the highest yields per acre of any state or nation, and produce almost twice as many pounds per acre as Idaho.
  • Whitman County produces more barley, wheat, dry peas and lentils than any other county in the United States.
  • Washington's ‘farmgate’ value of production for all agricultural products totaled $5.4 billion, ranking 12th in the nation for 2000.
  • Washington's dairy cows produce more pounds of milk per animal each year than cows in any other state.