UCCE Marin Annual Report 2008 

Sustainable Agriculture Program

The "Grown in Marin" program helps strengthen the viability and long-term success of agriculture in Marin by assisting farmers and ranchers with business and crop diversification. This program is made possible with the support of the County of Marin and the Marin Board of Supervisors.

This 27-minute film about Marin farm families was completed and shown in various community and public broadcast venues. It won a best documentary profile at the community access media awards in Denver in 2008.

I think the movie is a great showcase of what can be done for the next generation on the small family farms in our community. There is enormous potential for valued added products and our local markets continue to prove that. We are a stronger and more noticeable local food shed the more we grow. - Lynn Stray, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co.

Grown in Marin program provides new skills and ideas for Marin farms and ranches

The growninmarin.org website averages 685 visits per day where files are requested and downloaded. Seven new producer diversification hand-outs on various permitting procedures for new projects were completed and posted. We organized five workshops this year: on pruning, on carbon sequestration in rangelands, on farm leasing, on Sudden Oak Death in rangelands, and a training for county CDA staff, for a total of 223 producers and staff.