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.
The first half of the July 15, 2013 interview audio Farm & Foodshed Report, transcript here, is available.
Host Robin Carpenter with Samuel Dolcini, president of the Marin County Farm Bureau and most eligible bachelor in West Marin with Peter Prows, an attorney for Drake’s Bay Oyster Company, and Phyllis Faber, a founder of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust and part of a lawsuit regarding the Coastal Commission and Drake’s Bay Oyster Company.
During interview, Carpenter read a correction sent from Public Relations representative to DBOC, Sam Singer objecting to the characterization of himself by Trainer during a previous, 6-17-13 interview audio with Trainer on Farm & Foodshed Report. Transcript here. "
" Neither I nor my company have anything to do with either the Koch Brothers or the Tea Party. Period.
I am personally and professionally appalled by the false statements Amy Trainer made about me, my agency and about the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. She has made a number of knowingly false statements about Drakes Bay. It is a sad commentary on the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin that they would allow her behavior and rumor mongering."
