When we think about agriculture in Marin County, we have a shared sense of what comes to mind: rolling pastureland, organic milk, grass-fed beef, artisan cheeses, fields of row crops and community-grown fibers. There is this iconic picture that comes to mind. But agriculture in Marin has not always been the same.
Once Marin produced a quarter of California’s butter and was fourth in the state in potato production. We dry farmed 857 acres…