WSU Extension addresses food waste with new Worm Chalet

A cutting-edge, first-of-its-kind new food waste prevention facility will be unveiled at the Washington State University Skagit County Extension Office next Wednesday, Sept. 25.

It’s a Worm Chalet – the brain child of Extension staff committed to preventing food waste.

In 2023, staff offered programs and a social media campaign, “Use Food Well,” to begin helping Skagit county residents learn how to keep food waste out of landfills.

But this year, as they prepped another season of food waste prevention activities, Diane Smith of the Extension’s Family and Consumer Science unit and her colleague...