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Marnie Jackson’s line of homemade shampoo bars and cosmetics aim to reduce plastic waste.   David Briggs

The ocean lies about 15 miles from Marnie Jackson’s Nicasio farm but it’s a fixture in her daily ruminations as she tends to her sheep and rabbits. In particular, she considers how we humans are destroying it through particles of plastic and the choices we make at the grocery store. 

As a mother of two, including a son currently studying marine biology, Ms. Jackson had the next generation in mind when she established Black Mountain…