Marin IJ
January 20, 2023
These past few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time on ranches and farms across Marin County. Without a doubt, water is on everyone’s mind, but not exactly in the way most of us might be thinking. With the recent extreme storm events, our community has been inundated with flooding, persistent power outages and even…
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Bay Nature
January 19, 2023
The Marin County conservationist passed away on January 15, at her home. This article was first published on Nov. 23, 2015. Veteran environmental activist, writer, editor, publisher, educator, and coastal wetlands scientist Phyllis Faber has made countless contributions to the Bay Area environmental movement. With the late Ellen Straus, she cofounded the nation’s first agricultural…
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Marin Independent Journal
January 18, 2023
The Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership has announced the recipients of its annual Heart of Marin Award. The award program, which is in its 30th year, honors nonprofit volunteers, leaders and organizations. The awards ceremony was held Jan. 12 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in San Rafael. The honorees and their award categories included: The…
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Point Reyes Light
January 18, 2023
With their bright array of yellows, pinks and purples, the thistles rapidly propagating in Marin County are lovely to look at. But to ranchers in need of healthy grasslands for their cattle, they are a menace. The county is teaming up with the Marin Agricultural Land Trust to help Chileno Valley ranchers get rid
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San Francisco Chronicle
October 21, 2022
When Vivien Straus was growing up in West Marin, the newspaper would come a day or two late. The family mail wasn’t addressed with a street, just the town of Marshall and the state. With limited water on the property, which overlooks Tomales Bay and Highway 1, each of the family’s four children had to…
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Point Reyes Light
October 5, 2022
The Marin Agricultural Land Trust is preparing to purchase its second agricultural easement of the year. Last week, MALT secured nearly $1.4 million in public funds for development rights to the 540-acre Duncan Ranch as the trust renews its push to preserve farms and ranches after…
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Marin Independent Journal
October 4, 2022
Marin County approved its second allocation of Measure A funds for agricultural conservation easements this year. The Board of Supervisors signed off on a grant of over $1.36 million for the purpose of purchasing an agricultural easement over the 540-acre Duncan Ranch on Sept. 27. The Marin Agricultural Land Trust will seek private donations to…
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Morning Ag Clips
September 29, 2022
Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), a leading farmland trust in California’s Marin County, announced today that it has secured public funding from Marin County to cover half the cost of an agricultural conservation easement to permanently protect the scenic 540-acre Duncan Ranch and its long history of beef and dairy cattle grazing.
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North Bay Business Journal
September 12, 2022
Lily Verdone is the new executive director of a Marin-based nonprofit established in 1980 to preserve agriculture land. Marin Agricultural Land Trust stated before joining its organization, Verdone was senior director of Coastal Quest, an Oakland-based nonprofit building climate resilience for vulnerable coastal communities.
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Marin IJ
September 11, 2022
The Marin Agricultural Land Trust has hired a Bay Area nonprofit leader as its new executive director, the third since July 2020. Lily Verdone has worked at Coastal Quest, an Oakland organization focused on building climate resilience for coastal communities. Prior to that, she worked for over a decade at the Nature Conservancy.
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