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\"Talking<\/a>

Talking shop: Secretary Ross and Bob Giacomini cover the finer points of cheesemaking at his family\u2019s Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company. Also pictured (from Bob\u2019s left) are Ralph Grossi of Grossi Ranch and past president of the American Farmland Trust, Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) Executive Director Jamison Watts, and UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor David Lewis.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cA day in Marin.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Say that out loud to someone from California\u2019s Bay Area, then stand back and watch the reaction. \u201cWell, I could<\/i> reschedule that meeting, move some things around…\u201d It\u2019s something you want to do, someplace you want to be. And agriculture is a big part of the reason that\u2019s true. California is dotted with locales like this, each with its own enticements and attractions, its own \u201csense of place.\u201d How lucky we are \u2013 farmers and eaters alike \u2013 to share this exceptional state.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I spent a day in Marin County at the invitation of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), which works with local farming families to preserve ag lands and protect them from development. We toured an assortment of farms as well as processing and retail sites that illustrated, simply and without fanfare, just how integral our farming and ranching families are to the identity of Marin and so many other California communities.<\/p>\n

I met dairymen and women whose great-great-grandparents started out as farmworkers on someone else\u2019s dairy down the road. On these dairies, the cows still wear ear tags with handwritten names. I walked up and down hills and bluffs, from a barn full of silage to another full of experiments aimed at making a more nutritious kind of ice cream (yes, you read that right), to yet another housing the pipes and hoses for a dairy digester. Farmers, I was reminded, are part investor and part inventor. They are also parents, leaders and friends. They are passionate about what they do.<\/p>\n

I spoke with entrepreneurs such as an oyster farmer on the coast who has doggedly found ways to protect and grow his business by watching for opportunities to invest and hire and expand, and by constantly learning about his \u201ccrop\u201d and his customers. I met another gentleman who might be classified simply as a meat processor by our regulations, but he does so much more \u2013 he manages a restaurant and retail outlets, he handles the shipping and marketing, and he painstakingly sources an impressive array of livestock and poultry, all raised to his exacting specifications, from farmers and ranchers whom he sincerely calls friends.<\/p>\n

As we made our way around, over and through the windswept hills and valleys that make up Marin, it became clear that most of these folks know each other. They share stories about generations and past partnerships, about kids who went through 4-H and FFA together, maybe got married, maybe took over the family business. \u201cCompetitor\u201d is a word you seldom hear in this line of work, and Marin County is a place that teaches you why \u2013 because agriculture it isn\u2019t a line of work as much as it\u2019s a way of life.<\/p>\n

Californians are fond of saying how lucky we are to live here, and it\u2019s true. A good deal of that is down to Mother Nature and her singular talent with paint and clay. But yesterday, on my daylong tour of Marin County agriculture, I saw example after example of the things that we, as Californians, have also done to make this place so singular. California\u2019s farmers and ranchers, its farmworkers and artisan cheesemakers, its conservationists and its \u201coyster entrepreneurs\u201d \u2013 each of these and so many more have played a role in creating the exceptional place that California has become.<\/p>\n

Places like Marin are<\/i> California \u2013 unique, blessed, impossible to summarize, well worth preserving, and essential to our state\u2019s enduring allure.<\/p>\n

\"Dairy<\/a>

Dairy cows on a Marin County hillside.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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