North central Washington has more housing for migrant farmworkers this season, despite the closure of a 350-bed short-term tent camp in East Wenatchee that operated for five years. Three farmworker housing camps opened this spring in the Wenatchee area, and two growers in the area have new tent camps to accommodate more than 90 workers each, making a total of 560 new beds, according to Kirk Mayer, manager of the Washington Growers Clearing House Association. The Sage Bluff housing project at Malaga, which has 126 beds, was built by the Washington Growers League, in collaboration with the Office of Rural […]