UC ANR is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive web experience for all users. If you encounter an accessibility barrier or need content in an alternative or remediated accessible format, please contact anraccessibility@ucanr.edu.
Olive oil maker Guilermo Ramirez pours freshly pressed olive oil into a filtering machine at the McEvoy Ranch. (IJ photo/Jeff Vendsel) Gary Klien Marin Independent Journal November 19, 2006 The McEvoy Ranch is always finding new ways to squeeze money from olives.
Rick Giacomini feeds some of the young heifers remaining at the Giacomini dairy ranch in Pt. Reyes. The young heifers are among the 200 cows remaining at the ranch.
Jim 'Jimbo' McIssac Jr. guides several heifers down a shoot to feed at an open pasture of new grass on a hillside. Like other dairy farmers throughout Marin, the McIssac dairy farm just outside Novato has had to deal with the price of corn feed doubling in recent months.
MARIN COUNTY, Calif., Nov. 27, 2006 Marin County organic beef rancher Dave Evans stands in a pasture calling his cows, and it's a sight that could make an old cowhand cry. Watch "World News" Nov. 28, 29 for our continuing series on organic food "Hey boys. Hey girls. Come on," he said.
For years many of us have shared a vision of a permanent center for our local agriculture that would shelter an outdoor market, a collective farmgate to distribution facility for produce, dairy, shellfish and meat, an educational farm, a permanent indoor storefront for specialty and processed local...
Every year the Marin County Farm Bureau puts on an all local, home-cooked luncheon at the Corda Family Deer Camp just off San Antonio Road, to recognize the support given to them by our county government and supporters.
Marin Organic farmer Peter Worsley reports that, after a slow start for the 2006 growing season, his rowcrop, raspberry, and espaliered apple operation out-produced expectations in its first year at his new location one mile north of Point Reyes Station.
Marin ranchers struggle to pass legacy to next generation Brigid Lunny works at her father's Drake's Bay Family Farms in Inverness on land his family has managed for four generations.
Rob Rogers Marin Independent Journal article 1/9/07 A new study suggests that building massive homes on agricultural lands reduces the property's economic vitality.
