West Marin Farms are in clear danger! The rest of the Farm and Foodshed Report with Sam Dolcini, Phyllis Faber, Peter Prows is now ready here. The discussion reminds us of the importance of a proactive movement to protect West Marin's farms.
Sam: "The environmental action committee is supporting a coastal zone amendment that would say, “Even if you are on an organic dairy in West Marin, making your living that way, and there are already three homes built, sorry but you’ll have to commute from town or from another location. You will not even have the opportunity to easily build a home,” ... So there is a huge disconnect between the positives that we provide and the image that’s being put out. And, the challenge that we run into is that there is a very vocal minority that is getting a lot of attention. I think there is bigger support than we realize. And I think one of the challenges needs to be to come up with a way to maybe reproduce what Mr. Friedman once built that has been hijacked and see if we can’t follow that blue print and get a majority of us back on track protecting something that is so important and so valuable.
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