Cuisine scene: Marin's bounty ready for its close-up
By Leslie Harlib, Marin Independent Journal , 8/12/2008
In film time, it takes scant seconds to visually swoop an audience from San Francisco's slick towers across the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge, through suburban Marin County and into our western farmlands...

Organic Farming: All Guts, Little Glory
By Sara Deseran, 7 x 7 San Francisco , 7/22/2008
Meet four first-generation organic farmers who have taken on an all-guts, little-glory profession. Featuring David Retsky of County Line Harvest...

Cuisine Scene: When smoke gets in a Novatoan's eyes, thank Frank
By Leslie Harlib, Marin Independent Journal , 5/13/2008
Barbecue lovers in Marin know Frank Mead as the guy who operates the smoke-perfumed portable barbecue cart at the farmers market at the Marin Civic Center and downtown San Rafael on Thursday nights...

Marin Farmers Markets to provide recycled bags
By Staff Report, Marin Independent Journal , 4/17/2008
In honor of Earth Day, Marin Farmers Markets will provide vendors with recycled paper bags for its April 24 and April 27 markets at the Civic Center at San Rafael...

Marin Farmers Market may plant new roots near Civic Center
By Brad Breithaupt, Marin Independent Journa , 2/11/2008
The popular Marin Farmers Market, which draws throngs of customers to the Marin Center on Thursdays and Sundays, may move across the street from the Marin Veterans Auditorium. County staff is preparing to send out requests for proposals, including building designs, for moving the market to larger quarters..

Novato Grocer Connects with Local Farmers
By Nancy Isles Nation, Marin Independent Journal , 1/29/2008
The Marin Farmers Market will sell fresh produce directly to Harvest Market in Novato as part of a new venture organizers want to spread throughout the county...

Farmers markets thrive in Marin
By Rob Rogers, Marin Independent Journal , 08/18/2007
The idea of buying fruits, vegetables and other farm products fresh from the men and women who grew them is as old as farming itself...

A Flavorful Marketplace
By John Birdsall, East Bay Express , 06/27/2007
Eight years after it began, the Saturday Oakland-Grand Lake Farmers' Market has come to this: an amiable weekly street fair, where performers like Rob Robinson — gently shaking salt-and-pepper braids while riffing on Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic" — create a happy space for kids and their parents to troll for organic raspberries and peppercress, potted orchids, and Oaklandish T-shirts. All the necessities of modern urban life...

Marin Farmers Market honored as educator
By Rob Rogers, Marin Independent Journal , 06/07/2007
"The Marin Farmers Market impressed us by going above and beyond the business of selling produce," said Laura Teksler, awards chairwoman for Acterra, a Palo Alto organization that presented the Farmers Market with its 2007 Green Business Award for Environmental and Sustainability Education on Thursday...