September General Meeting

Marin Chapter Meeting Stewarding Homestead, 2015-2025
Guest Speaker: Marabeth Grahame
Monday, September 8, 2025 at 7:30 pm

Marabeth Grahame’s family has lived in Mill Valley’s Homestead neighborhood since 1962. Following her parent’s example as one of the founders of the Homestead Valley Land Trust, Marabeth has spent the last decade working to enhance biodiversity on the land they helped to protect. Believing that people only care for what they know - and leveraging her software engineering background - she started with a website and trail map for the Land Trust to encourage exploration of their wilderness next door, published a Blooming Now blog to document Homestead’s wildflowers as they bloomed and led wildflower walks. Most impactful though, were her many habitat restoration projects around the valley that tackled invasive brooms, ivy, cotoneaster, thistles, grasses and more in biodiversity hotspots.

Marabeth will discuss stepping up to help biodiversity in her backyard, learning how to pick her battles in the weed-rich environment of a wildland urban interface and the abundant rewards of tending the wild.

Land Trust website: https://www.hvlt.org/
Blooming Now blog: https://www.hvlt.org/blooming-now/