Mike Gempler (facing camera) tours Sage Bluff housing project. GERALDINE WARNER Housing—be it state-subsidized tent programs, onsite grower-owned, or public housing built for seasonal agricultural workers—is an attractive employment benefit that can help secure workers. With agricultural labor shortages looming in Washington State and many other parts of the nation, securing workers in the future will be very dependent on housing, says Jesse Lane, housing program manager for the Washington Growers League. Great strides have been made in Washington in recent years to increase the number of beds for seasonal agricultural workers through a rent-a-tent program for cherries and construction […]