Finishing this series by reading about the headwaters of Walker Creek and Tomales Bay, water quality testing, the wetland habitat goals, regulations, and the vision for water education. This final chapter zooms out to explain why all of this matters downstream.

This is an engineering story: gravity-fed springs, the solar pump lifting water to three 5,000-gallon tanks, and the detail that the orchard lines flow mostly at night because heat expands the tubes. It also covers the 800,000- to 1,000,000-gallon pond that could support growing from 7 to 21 acres.

Adrian story starts with the problem. There were no water rights, and he spent the first season hauling a 1,000-gallon tank to feed one acre. Then came the horizontal spring, with nearly 20,000 gallons captured in a few hours, and the manure ponds turned into rainwater catchments. George's first-week question, "where is the water, and how do we keep it?", works as the series opener.

What began as a surfer’s simple promise to plant shade on a sun-scorched beach for his girlfriend has grown into a movement of 111,000 trees across Costa Rica’s coastlines. Discover how Costas Verdes turns coastal reforestation into a community-led mission and why the real goal is not just planting trees, but growing roots in people.

When guests arrived at Blue Marble Acres to celebrate its fifth anniversary, they stepped into an effortless scene of live music, rustic tables, and community warmth. But behind the day’s easy charm was an intense feat of dirt-and-sweat infrastructure turning a working, off-grid farm into a safe haven for over 150 visitors. From last-minute plumbing emergencies to hand-built shade structures, lead Susana Mejía shares a candid look at the craft, grit, and shared trust that brought the milestone to life.

What began as a wintertime hobby in a makeshift fabric grow tent has transformed into a cornerstone of Blue Marble Acres. You can read what our Agricultural Manager, Edgar Cox, shares about his search for healthy protein options for his daughter and how a partnership with farm builder Rodolfo helped build a great mushroom lab from the ground up. From bacon-flavored pink oyster to high-tech climate control, discover the science, flavor, and grassroots passion driving our newest harvest.

Catch the best of late summer in a single bowl. Crisp raw sweet corn, chilled juicy watermelon, salty feta, and our farm-fresh heirloom tomatoes come together in this vibrant, sweet-and-savory salad. Easy to toss together for backyard gatherings and endlessly adaptable with whatever tomato varieties you pick at our farmstand this week! Grab the recipe and order your harvest directly from our online store.

Sunshine, sweet harvest, alpacas, and live music made our farm gathering last Saturday, Aug 1st truly unforgettable! Check our recap and relive the magic of community, connection and regenerative agriculture on the farm.

Don't let their funky shapes fool you—garlic scapes are a versatile kitchen MVP. Boasting a subtle, mellow garlic flavor, these crunchy stalks can be grilled like asparagus, blended into a vivid pesto, or used as a fresh garnish. Here is everything you need to know about garlic scapes, plus three simple ways to start cooking with them today.

A new kind of opportunity has quietly taken root in West Marin. Blue Marble Acres is removing the capital barriers to farming by opening its organic land, shared infrastructure, and community support to the next generation of growers and land-curious humans. Whether you want to plant a high-yield market garden this season or cultivate a multi-year regenerative food forest, discover how you can step off the pavement and onto the land.

This spring, California Parks Department is planning herbicide treatments on land that drains directly into Tomales Bay.

The authorities are using the language of regeneration to justify the use of chemicals that destroys the very microbial and botanical relationships that regeneration depends on.

That contradiction deserves a reckoning. This is an attempt to add one.

Basketball was never the point. For Coach Jerome Gumbs, Founder of Empower Me Academy, it was always just the magnet. The excuse to get more than 5,000 students in a room and teach them something far more important than how to shoot. This is his story and why Blue Marble Acres is now part of it.

A wholesome, naturally vegan breakfast that’s also filling and super flavourful.

If you have noticed the hills around Blue Marble Acres looking greener lately, there is a good reason and it has four legs. Meet Jenna Coughlin, founder of Shepherds of the Coast, the prescribed grazing operation quietly restoring the soil one paddock at a time. From cheesemaking to shepherding, from Coast Miwok roots to MALT grants, her story is what happens when someone decides the only trick to doing something is just doing it.

An easy kid-friendly recipe for this spring season. Sweet, tender, and ready in minutes. A salad even the pickiest little eater will actually enjoy!

Edgar Cox has counseled children, harvested grapes in New Zealand, and now tends the soil of West Marin with the same quiet intentional creativity he brings to everything else. As Agricultural Manager at Blue Marble Acres, he's not just growing food — he's rebuilding a relationship between land, people, and community. One handful of soil at a time.

We shared our classic deviled eggs recipe, always a winner, made with simple ingredients including our fresh eggs of course, pickle relish, mayonnaise, mustard, salt, and pepper. Enjoy!

A conversation with Matt Champoux, BMA’s Executive Director, about the STRAW and Point Blue Conservation Science partnership that brought students, farmers, and a neglected riparian corridor back to life together.

Read how 400 students, and a 34-year old Bay Area program came together to restore something much bigger than a stretch of land.

The supply chains that sustain organic family farms in Northern California aren't always the sleek, optimized pipelines people imagine. They're built on phone calls and trust — and out here in West Marin, that system is remarkably tight.

Yesterday, March 22nd, the world observed World Water Day — a moment to reflect on something so fundamental to life that we can easily take it for granted: clean, accessible water. On our farm, we marked it with a simple but powerful image: a female farmer washing her hands after a long day of harvesting. We want to tell a bigger story. One about labor, dignity, and a global fight that is far from over.

This year's World Water Day theme — "Water and Gender: Where Water Flows, Equality Grows" — challenges us to think beyond pipelines and reservoirs and ask a harder question: who carries the burden when water is scarce, unsafe, or far away?