Marin awards $1.6M for food, garden, agriculture projects

Marin County supervisors have approved 22 grants totaling more than $1.55 million to promote community gardens, food access, food entrepreneurs and other agriculture-related initiatives.

The money for the grants comes from Measure A, a countywide, quarter-cent sales tax designated to support parks, open space and sustainable agriculture. The grants were made as part of the county’s new Food, Agriculture and Resilient Ecosystems program, or FARE.

“This program started in 2020 and...