About Us

The Alliance for Local, Sustainable Agriculture (ALSA) was formed to preserve and expand community based sustainable agriculture. The health and economy of all are threatened when a diversified agricultural community does not thrive. ALSA strives to form a broad alliance of support through education, conflict resolution and advocacy.

The Alliance was created by local conservationists, farmers and business people to address challenges that threaten our local agriculture. These are issues which other local organizations such as Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), U.C. Agricultural Extension, Marin Organic, the Marin Resource Conservation District and others cannot
address because of their unique and specific mandates.

Current ALSA projects include assisting the USDA funded West Marin Compost Project, a joint public/private venture, to recycle equestrian, dairy and green wastes into compost, a valuable soil enhancement for West Marin pastures and gardens. Another is the saving of the sustainable shellfish aquaculture in Drakes Estero. ALSA recently successfully advocated for the installation of a wind electric turbine on a local olive ranch.