Northwest Natural Resources Institute

04/30/2025

04/30/2025

This is happening at NNRI’s Farm Fair held during the Spokane Junior Livestock Show. Stop by and say hi if you’re here!

09/13/2024

Our first fall student program is in the books. We had an amazing Water Festival at the Doris Morrison Learning Center and educated more than 350 regional 5th graders about the importance of water and water resources in their daily lives. Thank you to Avista for your continued support of this program and to all the volunteers who spent two days with us. You are all amazing!!

05/02/2024

We’re holding our Farm Fair program for regional 4th and 5th graders teaching them about agriculture and how important it is to Washington State. At the end of today, we will have reached more than 1200 students. WOW!! Thank you to all our incredible volunteers who support this important program for our students, teachers and parents!

10/02/2023

Thank you to our partners and volunteers who made the last two weeks of our Model Mine program possible! You are all rock stars. A special thank you to Central Pre-Mix Quality Control Lab for hosting us!

09/18/2023

So glad you were able to join us!! See you next year.

09/18/2023

We have amazing partners who support our mission of educating teachers and students about the importance of natural resources in their daily lives!!

09/16/2023

We just spent a great two days holding our Water Festival at Liberty Lake County Park!! 500 regional 5th graders and teachers had so much fun doing hands-on interactive lessons on water and water resources. Thank you Avista for your support of NNRI’s Water Festival!

08/10/2023

Another successful teacher workshop was completed this week in Mount Vernon. On the first day, teachers received curriculum from Project Learning Tree and Project WET. They then spent the second day learning all about agriculture in Washington state. Thank you to all of our amazing supporters who make it possible for us to provide these educational opportunities.

07/12/2023

Day two of our three-day workshop on natural resources found teachers spending the day learning about agriculture. This included making bread in a bag! Thank you to Washington Grain Commission, Boise Cascade, the Washington Wheat Foundation and AgWest Farm Credit for making this workshop happen!!

05/04/2023

What a great two days at NNRI’s annual Farm Fair held during the Spokane Junior Livestock Show!! We educated more than 1200 students and 50 teachers about the importance of agriculture to Washington’s economy. All of the volunteers were amazing to spend the time with us!

02/10/2023

This was an amazing panel to present to regional FFA students. I’m proud to be associated with all of you!

A panel of agriculture professionals offered their advice and wisdom to FFA members at the Spokane Ag Show on Thursday.