Marin agricultural producers receive biodiversity grants

The Marin Agricultural Land Trust has awarded $200,000 in small grants to five agricultural producers in western Marin to support their biodiversity efforts.

The funding will be used to restore native grasslands, utilize inferior sheep’s wool for soil enhancement and provide habitat for native wildlife, including the western monarch butterfly, whose population has been plummeting.

Lily Verdone, executive director of MALT, said the grants highlight things that farmers and ranchers are already doing to promote biodiversity...