Future of Farmsteading in West Marin

Date: 
Sunday, October 16, 2016 - 3:00pm
Location: 
Dance Palace
Event Description: 
West Marin has been a hotbed for innovative food producers, value-added farm products, agricultural land preservation and education, food justice, and carbon sequestering practices. The “Future of Farmsteading” will feature Sarah Henry, author of Farmsteads of the California Coast and an intergenerational panel of local farmsteaders. Penny Livingston of the Regenerative Design Institute, Dennis Dierks of Paradise Valley Farms, and Wendy Johnson of the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden project will be in conversation with next-generation farmers and ranchers including Lynn Giacomini Stray of Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company and Caymin Ackerman of Big Mesa Farm and others. The program is part of the Bolinas Museum’s “Bounty: Fine Food Production in Coastal Marin from 1834 to Today.” Enjoy West Marin edibles after the panel. Presented by Point Reyes Books.

 

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Link: 
http://dancepalace.org/events/future-farmsteading-west-marin
Category: 
Environmental
Posted by: 
Dance Palace
on: 
09/01/2016 - 6:15pm

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