Paradise Valley Ranch, one of the oldest organic farms in the state, became the first ranch in Bolinas to be protected under an agricultural conservation easement—worth over $5 million—by the Marin Agricultural Land Trust.
Peter Martinelli, who took over his family’s business, then known as Fresh Run Farm, in 1999, is the third generation of his family to tend to the land. He uses about 22 of the ranch’s 240 acres to grow over 40…