Marin Agricultural Land Trust: Preserving Marin County Farmland
August 7th, 2008 By Elisabeth Ptak
If we can make the right choices about where our food comes from, we can change the world. Protecting farmland is the first vital step.
—Alice Waters
When Ellen Straus, a dairywoman from Marshall, California, gazed out from her family’s farm in the early 1970s, she saw practically the same sight as those who raised livestock there 150 years before would had seen. And it was just about the same view a coastal traveler on this section of Highway One, located about 50 miles north of San Francisco, would see today: rolling hills, ranches, and the sparkling estuarine waters of Tomales Bay. Read More