At the Tomales Founders’ Day parade on Sunday, spectators lined Highway 1 to watch fire trucks, farmers and dairy princesses saunter down the street. Perhaps the parade’s most unexpected entrants were its youngest, who were heralded by a wide white banner that read “The Tomales Baby Boom: (Future) Future Farmers of America.”
Since its founding, Tomales has been a town of farmers and ranchers, its grassy hillsides dotted with beef and dairy cattle. But the…