After a decade in which farmer’s markets and direct-to-consumer agricultural sales doubled across the country, a new coalition is seizing on the local-foods movement with the hopes of benefitting Marin producers.
Grown Local Marin, a pilot program spearheaded by the Agriculture Institute of Marin and supported by a $5,700 grant from the Board of Supervisors, aims to draw out the potential “locavore” in consumers the next time they choose between produce from around the corner…