Project Board Help

Test PB Collection: FTE

Test dynamic

Grown in Marin: Page

Back to the ranch

Consumers are going to the source for pastured beef, pork, poultry and eggs Carol Ness, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Jeff and Katie Hagan are never stuck wondering what's for dinner -- not with 80 pounds of beef in the freezer.
View Page
Grown in Marin: Page

Going organic

John and Karen Taylor, with their 2-year-old son, Billy Joe, took over the Bivalve Ranch north of Point Reyes Station from Karen Taylor's mother, dairy industry leader Sharon Doughty, at the beginning of 2006. The ranch was certified organic in July.
View Page
Grown in Marin: Page

Market growing for Marin olive oil producers, sellers

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.
View Page
Grown in Marin: Page

Marin dairy farmers face hard times as corn costs rise

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.
View Page
Grown in Marin: Page

Is Organic Food Really a Better Buy?

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.
View Page
Grown in Marin: Page

The Marin Center for Sustainable Agriculture is on its way here

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...
View Page