ARLINGTON — Frost sparkled in the afternoon sunshine as Dave Boehnlein’s boots crunched through grass fields behind his mobile home in rural Arlington.
Boehnlein and his wife, Yuko Miki, own 240 acres of farmland just off 228th Street Northeast. But soon the couple will share the land with dozens more people.
The couple is a part of Rooted Northwest, an agricultural cooperative. At the beginning of December, Snohomish County Council approved the Rooted Northwest agrivillage preliminary plat, allowing the couple to start their dream project of creating a farm-focused neighborhood in rural Arlington…