San Francisco Chronicle
April 14, 2020
Bay Area artisan cheese makers are making tough decisions right now. Some are laying off staff. Others are switching up the cheeses they produce, hoping to wait out the coronavirus in the aging room. That’s because just about all of California’s boutique cheese makers have seen their sales drop since state and local shelter-in-place orders…
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KPIX5, CBS SF Bay Area
April 13, 2020
John Ramos reports on how local butcher shops and farms are maintaining supply chains while large factory processing plants deal with shutdowns
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Bay Area Bountiful
April 10, 2020
Denise Rocco-Zilber of MALT shares the story of Double 8 Dairy adapting during COVID-19.
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Marin Independent Journal
March 29, 2020
Even West Marin and North Bay ranchers are changing their business to accommodate customers during the coronavirus threat lockdown. Chileno Valley Grass-Fed Beef company set up a table in Petaluma and allowed people to come pick up prepaid orders.
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New Zealand Herald
February 11, 2020
While much of the Bay Area has been developed for business and residence, Marin County has remained relatively undeveloped because of the land protections of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), founded by rancher Ellen Straus and biologist Phyllis Faber in 1980.
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Point Reyes Light
January 29, 2020
At a Marin Conservation League subcommittee meeting last week, Executive Director Jamison Watts said a campaign would cost about $225,000, and the land trust is prepared to pay half of that. “It is not cheap, but we feel very strongly about it. We’re all in on this,” he said.
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Marin Independent Journal
January 19, 2020
Jamison Watts, executive director of MALT, said, “That is a beautiful property. It has high natural resource value as well as agricultural values. It has active lessees on the property right now. I congratulate the county on the acquisition.”
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Marin Independent Journal
January 12, 2020
Adding another ranch to the Marin Agricultural Land Trust’s holdings of agricultural easements is another step toward preserving Marin’s rural environment and protecting local agriculture.
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Marin Independent Journal
January 5, 2020
The Marin Agricultural Land Trust has been awarded a nearly $1.1 million grant from the California Strategic Growth Council to help secure a new agricultural easement outside Novato. The funds are intended for a 299-acre ranch about 3 miles southwest of Petaluma, according a project summary published by the council. The acquisition would add to…
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Point Reyes Light
December 18, 2019
“I think we, and the producers in the region, were hoping for a different outcome,” said Jamison Watts, the executive director of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. “If we want to support a thriving agriculture community that is environmentally sustainable and economically viable, then clean, local slaughter facilities are essential.”
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