Grown In Marin 

Point Reyes Seashore Ranchers Association is being honored by the Marin Economic Commission for their efforts to support a viable Marin agricultural economy by providing an interface with the National Park Service, modernizing farming and ranching practices, and organizing to preserve their agricultural landscape.

      The Association has worked hard since 2001 to provide the ranchers and farmers in the Seashore with a platform to interface with the Park Service in a positive and productive manner, to invigorate and modernize their own farming and ranching, and to reach out to the broader community in order to insure that they and their children will continue to run sound, environmentally healthy farms and ranches. This unique population maintains and stewards thousands of acres of grassland open space and is preserving an important part of Marin's cultural and historic legacy. The Ranchers Association has brought together the Department of the Interior through the Pt. Reyes National Seashore, the Department of Agriculture through the Natural Resource Conservation Service, the University of California Cooperative Extension, and the Regional Water Quality Board to create results that include:

• small diversified agricultural operations that have been approved by the park administration on several ranches, including artichokes at G Ranch and pasture-based range poultry at H Ranch;
  
• combined efforts to improve water quality on ranches;
  
• organic certification of Park rangelands;
  
• proposed joint grassland improvement studies, and
  
• collaborative efforts to restore historical ranch buildings

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