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Purity versus viability for farmers’ market?

11/23/2011
For years the Point Reyes Farmers’ Market has served as the sunlit visage of a region that prides itself in having championed a return to eating locally. But beneath its stalls, which are becoming progressively fewer in number, a quandary continues to brood: is such stiff provincialism economically viable? The...

Cocktail hour with 
the NPS

11/20/2011
Poster boards and golden nametags surrounded a crowd of some 200 Tuesday evening for the first of three open houses hosted by Point Reyes National Seashore on the fate of Drakes Bay Oyster Company. The event, which took place at the Dance Palace, in Point Reyes Station, was marked by...

Seashore ends leases 
in Duck Cove

11/17/2011
Point Reyes National Seashore denied requests this month for nine private lease extensions in Duck Cove, a remote hamlet on the western banks of Tomales Bay, claiming that such extensions are at odds with the “purpose for which the park was established.” The leaseholders, whose 40-year use reservations will expire...

Workers in limbo at Drakes Bay Oyster Co.

11/17/2011
The fate of dozens of oyster workers and their families now rests in the hands of one man, guided by a voluminous federal document that describes their contributions as “minimal.” Should U.S. Secretary Interior Ken Salazar decide not to authorize Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s lease extension—a subject of five years...

Stinson addresses housing crisis

11/17/2011
With young adults and workers hard pressed to find inexpensive rentals in Stinson Beach, residents are exploring the possibility of establishing an affordable housing program. At a community meeting on Tuesday, Stinson Beach Fire Chief Kenny Stevens said the problem has reached such a crisis point that soon the fire...

Ralph Grossi on future of farming

11/17/2011
West Marin rancher and former president of the American Farmland Trust Ralph Grossi will talk about the future of food production in the United States on Sunday, December 4, from 4 to 6 p.m. at West Marin School, in Point Reyes Station. Grossi, who was an original board member Marin...

Crab may be small but plentiful

11/17/2011
Tuesday marked the beginning to what is expected to be another sterling commercial crab season---good news for local fishermen still reeling from the year’s limited salmon yields. But first, they and buyers have to agree on a price. Lawson’s Landing co-owner Willy Vogler said on Wednesday that commercial fishermen had...

Dispensary dodges crackdown

11/17/2011
Operators of Fairfax’s Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana moved this week to prevent a federal mandate that it close its doors and remove all trace of the substance by November 21. The order is part of a national crackdown on marijuana growers and licensed dispensaries, which prosecutors believe often mask...

Solomon adheres to rice and beans

11/17/2011
Democratic Congressional candidate Norman Solomon, of Inverness Park, has joined the “Food Stamp Challenge,” in which participants are tasked with living on the average amount—$4.50 a day and $31.50 a week—of benefits for food stamp recipients, to raise awareness about hunger and to protest Republican Congress members’ proposed cuts to...

Kill your own Turkey in Bolinas

11/17/2011
West Marin Freeskool will sponsor a comprehensive turkey harvesting class on Sunday, November 20 at Gospel Flats Farm, in Bolinas. The course, lasting from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., will avail participants of the secrets to slaughtering, plucking, eviscerating, brining, curing and cooking their bird. According to the course description,...

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