- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
![MB Boissevain©JackMasonMuseum](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/11911small.jpg)
UC Cooperative Extension's first farm advisor in Marin County was featured in a story written by Vicki Larson in the Marin Independent Journal.
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
![Native plants on display at an existing Marin County community garden.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/6269small.jpg)
Developing a community garden in Novato is proving more complicated and costly than expected, but local organizers are pressing forward with their plans, according to an article in the Marin Independent Journal.
The garden, which will contain 50 to 80 garden plots, is proposed by the non-profit organization
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
![Rangeland owners may be able to sequester more carbon on their land.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/3305small.jpg)
A delegation from China's Ministry of Agriculture visited a Marin County ranch on Wednesday to view a collaborative research project aimed at sequestering carbon in rangeland. The visit was covered by Contra Costa Times reporter Mark Prado.
The research collaborators, which includes UC Cooperative Extension, are studying whether application of compost on rangeland will boost plant growth, which in turn would store more carbon. Research leader UC Berkeley professor Whendee Silver shared with the delegation promising early results gleaned from the first year of the five-year project.
"Plants are...
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