Commons California Native Plant Garden at the Livery Stable

Early in 2007, West Marin Commons set to work with Marshall Livingston, who owns the Livery Stable building in Point Reyes Station, to create a common garden space there.
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Mesa Road Pathway

For years, a public right-of-way along Mesa Road, behind Toby’s Feed Barn and the Building Supply store, was overgrown with weeds and brush. Many residents didn’t know that the right-of-way was even there. Then the new toddler playground and public restrooms were installed across the road, and the need for a walkway out of traffic became urgent.
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Place Making Initiative: A Village Green or Zocalo

A commons, a community gathering place – free and open to all – is something not to take for granted. A village green or square is a natural crossroads that invites a mixing of diverse communities and builds a sense of inclusion in daily life, a locus for providing and meeting needs.
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Tending the Wild Collaborative:
Ethnobiology Project

Following a talk by Kat Anderson, author of Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources, a group here began to explore the implications of Anderson's work and the potential for establishing an ethnobiology garden in this area.
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West Marin Commons is dedicated to the practice of community in West Marin, in order to sustain and enrich our social and natural environment. We seek to establish, preserve, and enhance both common spaces and the life that occurs in them; and to create social infrastructure for resource sharing, conservation, and learning.

BLOG: Been Down This Road Before

The first time I drove through Novato I thought that I had let my attention wander and taken a wrong turn. As you enter town from West Marin, Novato Boulevard seems almost as wide as a freeway. It is supposed to be Northern California but it feels more like L.A.

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