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Do you have a favorite photo of Marin you'd like to share?
Send it to us and we'll select one photo to feature monthly. Be sure to include the name of the photographer and the location where it was shot.
We're leading off December with one taken by MALT staffer Victoria Moore at the BN Ranch in Bolinas.
We love the detail in this shot, how about you?
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MALT Stewardship Assistant Allison Kiehl taking soil samples.
Can Marin County farmland
help fight global warming?
December 3, 6:30 P.M.
Learn more this Thursday evening at Food & Farming on the Urban Edge, an event at Cavallo Point in Sausalito co-sponsored by MALT and the Institute at the Golden Gate. The Marin Carbon Project, which is funded by the Marin Community Foundation, is investigating the potential for certain land management practices, such as the addition of organic soil amendments, to enhance the capacity of California rangeland soils to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmospherel. Lead scientist, Dr. Whendee Silver of UC Berkeley, will report on results to date. MALT Executive Director Bob Berner will explain the value to local farmers. We'll also hear from Project Director John Wick and rangeland expert Jeff Creque.
The Marin Carbon Project is a partnership among the following organizations:
- MALT
- Marin Organic
- Marin Resource Conservation District
- Nicasio Native Grass Ranch
- University of California, Berkeley
- UC Cooperative Extension: Marin & Sonoma
- USDA National Resources Conservation Service
Pre-registration is requested. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door.
$10 MALT Members/ $15 non-members
(Not a MALT member? Join now)
Forward to a friend Photo by Paige Green
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Ho-ho-holiday!
MALT open house, December 11
5-7 P.M.
Please be our guests at our annual gathering as we celebrate the season with local food and beverages. Meet West Marin farmers, ranchers, producers, and the community of people helping to preserve Marin County farmland.
We will be serving seasonal hors d'oeuvres, hot cider, and cocoa. Beer and wine will be available at a no-host bar.
Support MALT and local businesses
Make a night of it! After appetizers and an aperitif at the Dance Palace, dine at one of the following local restaurants
that
have generously offered to donate a portion of their sales to MALT on
December 11. Click on the links below for menu and reservation
information, and be sure to say, "MALT sent me!"
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Café Reyes
- Osteria Stellina
- Station House Café
- Nick's Cove
- Farmhouse Restaurant at Point Reyes Seashore Lodge
Or
make a whole day of it...shop at the Palace Market in Point Reyes Station,
and they will donate 1% of the day's sales to MALT. Then head down the
street to Cowgirl Creamery where 5% of the day's sales will be donated to MALT!
Dance Palace Community Center
Corner of 5th & B Streets
Point Reyes Station
For information, call 415-663-1158 or visit our website to RSVP.
Forward to a friend Image: J. Thomas Soltesz Midnight Snack
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 A Signature Event!
December 22, 1:30 P.M.
Looking for the perfect holiday gift? How about a signed copy of Ranches & Rolling Hills, Art of West Marin--A Land in Trust.
Join us for this festive event at Copperfield's Books in Petaluma where you can meet the author, MALT's own Elisabeth Ptak, and some of the talented landscape artists featured in the book:
- Martha Borge
- Christin Coy
- Dana Hooper
- Zee Zee Mott
- Thomas Wood
Learn more about the art show that inspired this book.
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Go "green" this season
Have a hard-to-please local food enthusiast or farmland fan to shop for this year? Delight them with a gift membership to MALT with benefits that keep on giving throughout the year, including:
- Discounts on all MALT Hikes & Tours
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Subscription to our quarterly newsletter and
Year in Review -
Invitations to members-only events Invitation to our annual Ranches & Rolling Hills
landscape art show and sale
 Order a gift membership online before December 18, and we will send you a copy of Marin Farm Families, Stories & Recipes. This charming book ($10 retail value) contains profiles of 22 people whose lives revolve around the rhythms and tempos of Marin agriculture. Recipes include those created by food professionals like Gerald Gass of McEvoy Ranch and Amy Nathan Weber of Star Route Farms, as well as plain and fancy treasures from the kitchens of Marin's farming families. We'll also include a personalized gift card announcing your present.
Questions about membership? Contact Deborah White, Annual Giving Officer, at 415-663-1158, ext. 312, or dwhite@malt.org.
Forward to a friend Photo by Paige Green
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 An original gift
for the locavore
on your list
Delicious grass-fed,
Marin beef & lamb
Loren Poncia (pictured), owner of Stemple Creek Ranch and MALT board member, has generously offered to donate 10% of his beef and lamb sales to MALT through the end of January 2010. All you have to do is let him know you heard about this offer from MALT!
Loren's family has been ranching in Marin since 1902 when his great-grandfather Angelo Poncia first purchased the property the family calls home to this day. Loren's father served on MALT's original board of directors and cemented the relationship in 1992 by selling an easement to MALT, permanently preserving the land for agricultural use.
You can your order your meat on the Stemple Creek Ranch website or, if you prefer, contact Loren directly at 415-883-8253. Don't forget to mention us when you place your order: in the spirit of the season, you'll be supporting a local ranching family and MALT!
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Can a car help protect the environment?
You betcha!
The Bay Area Open Space Council and the California State Coastal Conservancy
have banded together to protect the environment one car at a time by
raising funds and environmental awareness through the sale of a
customized license plate. Find out more.
MALT & the California State Coastal Conservancy
Over
the past ten years the Coastal Conservancy has provided Marin
Agricultural Land Trust with more than $6 million in funding for
farmland conservation. These funds have helped MALT permanently protect
over 6,400 acres of Marin's food-producing family farms and ranches,
including dairies, sheep operations, grass-fed beef suppliers and farmstead
cheese businesses located in the Coastal Zone. The protection of these
lands for agriculture also helps safeguard the many natural resources
found here.
Visit our website to place your order. You'll be supporting farmland preservation, wetland restoration, and wildlife conservation in the Bay Area.
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Land Trust Accreditation
Open comment period through December 17
MALT is
pleased to announce its application for accreditation from the Land Trust
Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance
(LTA). The land trust accreditation program recognizes land conservation
organizations that meet national quality standards for protecting important
natural places and working lands forever.
Now that our pre-application has been
approved, we need your help! The Commission invites public input and accepts
signed, written comments on pending applications. Comments must relate to how
MALT complies with national quality standards. These standards address the
ethical and technical operation of a land trust. To learn more about the
accreditation program and to submit a comment, visit www.landtrustaccreditation.org.
Comments also may be faxed or mailed to:
Land Trust Accreditation Commission
Attn: Public Comments
112 Spring Street, Suite 204
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Fax: 518-587-3183
Comments will be most useful by
December 17, 2009.
Thank you in advance for your support
and assistance.
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