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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Morning Ag Clips
September 1, 2022
Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), a leading farmland trust in California’s Marin County, announced that it has permanently protected the 723-acre McDowell Ranch by securing an agricultural conservation easement. The property, which has been in active agricultural production for more than 120 years, is the cornerstone of a larger contiguous tract of undeveloped coastal grassland that…
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KneeDeepTimes
August 24, 2022
Construction is wrapping up on a new well in Marin County that will supply drinking water to Point Reyes Station, Olema, Inverness Park, Paradise Ranch Estates, and Bear Valley. It will also allow the North Marin Water District to transition away from its dependence on aging wells that are situated in places where seasonal high…
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Morning Ag Clips
August 10, 2022
By late summer, water from a new well installed on a Marin County ranch will provide residents of Point Reyes Station, Olema, Inverness Park, Paradise Ranch Estates and Bear Valley with more than 150 gallons of fresh drinking water every minute.
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North Bay Business Journal
July 29, 2022
With California and the U.S. West squared firmly in drought into November per federal authorities, one Marin County agricultural program is taking shape to help farmers deal with the consequences. On July 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report in which climate and fire weather experts said a persistent ocean current temperature pattern called…
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