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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Marin IJ
September 27, 2023
As Marin’s climate gets hotter and drier, the risk of catastrophic wildfires grows. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the largest and most destructive fires in state history all happened in the past 20 years.
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New York Times
September 25, 2023
When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? For many of us, the answer is not much. Instead of glittering constellations, we’re often greeted by nothing more than a darkened haze overhead, as city lights obscure our nighttime views. Light pollution has become such a serious problem that 80 percent of…
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Marin IJ
September 22, 2023
Al Poncia, a longtime Tomales cattleman and a founding member of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust, has died. He was 83. Mr. Poncia had pancreatic cancer, said his son, Loren Poncia.
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KQED
July 31, 2023
When Joe Sanchez was 8 years old, his grandmother asked him to make a promise to never forget his California Indian heritage. She was determined to see the culture live on, after watching her brothers deny their Coast Miwok ancestry, a matter of economic survival in early 20th century California.
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Sierra
July 16, 2023
When he was growing up in the coastal California village of Bolinas in the 1980s, Ole Schell remembers, the monarchs that returned each fall to their overwintering sites seemed “endless.” They clustered in the eucalyptus and pine groves around town, sometimes in swarms so big that—Schell now recalls with embarrassment—he and his friends would shake…
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The San Francisco Standard
June 28, 2023
Chances are Janet Brown and Marty Jacobson know more about heirloom tomatoes than you do. The husband-and-wife team behind Allstar Organics has been growing the vibrantly colored nightshade fruit in the unincorporated Marin County community of Nicasio for 30 years—long before heirloom tomatoes became common in this country.
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North Bay Business Journal
June 23, 2023
Despite coming off a disastrous winter that cost California about $1 billion in damage, North Bay farmers and ranchers may have paid a heftier price from the last few years of drought — with almost a dozen in Sonoma and Marin counties throwing in the towel.
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