Marin IJ
July 12, 2024
Matt Dolkas, of West Novato, naturally has concerns about potential wildfires that could affect the 20-acre property he co-owns with his wife, Kate, and his parents, Dave and Karen. He has a secret weapon, though, or rather nine of them: a herd of ready-to-go weed-eating goats that regularly reduce the wildfire fuel on his acreage.
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North Bay Biz
June 4, 2024
Local farms and ranches throw open the barn doors to the ag-curious, North Bay farms and ranches are finding agritourism is a viable way to generate profits that will offset the rising cost of insurance, fuel, feed and labor.
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Marin IJ
April 27, 2024
Marin County supervisors have approved grants totaling more than $2.9 million for two new agricultural conservation easements.
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Marin IJ
March 3, 2024
When I began my career in agriculture in my mid-20s, after a decade as a chef in fine dining, working in award-winning vineyards and dairies that produced some of the best cheese in the country, I almost never saw anyone my age working for these operations. I began to wonder, where are the next generation…
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Edible Marin & Wine Country
February 26, 2024
Gaze east from Highway 1 in Point Reyes Station and Black Mountain sits like a great hand, fortifying the West Marin landscape. It is a comforting, magnanimous geologic totem, the knuckles of the mountain reminding us that despite the vagaries of time—most recently drought and pandemic—the earth provides.
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Marin IJ
December 13, 2023
Over 1,700 acres of West Marin land will be protected from development and preserved for agriculture due to two easements soon to be completed by the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. This month, Marin County supervisors approved a grant of over $1.8 million to help Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) purchase an agricultural easement on the…
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Point Reyes Light
December 13, 2023
Two more West Marin ranches, including one of the largest in the county, will soon be added to the portfolio of farmland protected from development . . .
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Point Reyes Light
November 8, 2023
When we think about agriculture in Marin County, we have a shared sense of what comes to mind: rolling pastureland, organic milk, grass-fed beef . . .
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Substack
October 13, 2023
It was a warm day but there was a comfortable, cooling breeze on the the ridge as we looked out across the rocky, straw-colored hills of western Marin County, past woodlands, creeks, soaring turkey vultures, swooping hawks and a smattering of cows all the way to the coastal bluffs and the gleaming, blue ocean.
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Marin IJ
October 12, 2023
Marin County has begun accepting applications for a new $800,000-per-year environmental grant program made possible by a rejiggering of Measure A tax revenue. The Food, Agriculture and Resilient Ecosystems program is designed to advance a laundry list of objectives on farming, the climate and natural resources. Methods to improve natural resource values include carbon-capture farming,…
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