Winter Newsletter 2025
The MarinHEAL Collaborative Gardens are thriving with a variety of vegetables, fruits, and medicinal herbs sprouting across our communities. The gardens are not only producing an abundance of food, but they are also undergoing upgrades to increase future yields....
The Canal Community Action Team Garden
Alcohol Justice (AJ)Parking Lot Greening Project This summer, the Alcohol Justice staff underwent several planning meetings to begin designing and transforming the office’s parking lot into an Urban Community Garden. From security to available sunlight, there were...
The Marin City Community Action Team Gardens
Marin City Community Services District Intergenerational Garden This year through the collaboration with MarinHEAL, the Nevada Campus team hopes to complete hardscape projects including renovating old garden beds, installing a poly-tunnel, replacing storage sheds,...
The West Marin Community Action Team Gardens
Ecumenical Affordable Housing (EAH) Point Reyes Affordable Housing/ Walnut Place Resident Gardens This summer, residents were able to enjoy an abundance of produce grown at the Walnut Place Garden. The resident gardeners harvested a wide variety of squash,...
Upcoming Events: Training and Technical Assistance
ServSafe Food Handler California Online Course & Assessment ServSafe certification is a food safety training program that educates food service industry workers and other food handlers on the best practices for maintaining a safe and sanitary food environment....
Winter Newsletter 2024
The winter season is upon us, bringing with it much needed rain and heralding a new season of growth and change. We are excited looking back at the past year, and the progress achieved through the MarinHEAL Collaborative and the Community Action Teams (CATs), while...
MarinHEAL Community Action Teams (CATs) Engaging Community and Local Stakeholders
Canal Community Action Team: Co-Led by Alcohol Justice The Canal CAT team was composed of five partner organizations that served the residents and demographic of the Canal area. Representatives from these recruited organizations partook in monthly meetings to refine...
MarinHEAL Collaborative Partner Highlight
Community Action Marin (CAM) Food Service Workforce Program Community Action Marin’s Food Service Workforce Program worked with 15 individuals to build skills, a supportive network of peers, and secure employment or launch a small business in the food sector. The...
Spring Newsletter 2022
As the season transitions from Winter into Spring, we watch the shift as plants and animals awake from a state of dormancy, to blossom, to movement, to action. Similarly, our work with the Marin County HEAL Collaborative has moved from strategy, into implementation on...
Nutrition & Wellness Program: HEAL Collaborative Funded Work
Over the past year, the Nutrition Wellness Program has been developing an online educational program to promote healthy eating and community leadership within the local food systems. We have partnered with two local leaders to facilitate workshops around MyPlate...