Summer 2023

224 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • S U M M E R 2 0 2 3 ~ THE P EN I NS U L A S C ENE ~ The Ag Land Trust Annual Appreciation Dinner Tina & Marc Del Piero, Camille & Marty Polson Photos by Kelli Uldall T he Ag Land Trust and guests from local and state governments, major agribusiness companies, farmland owners, and farmworker organizations, celebrated its Annual Appreciation Dinner at the barn at Mission Ranch in Carmel. Founded in 1984, attendees celebrated the Trust's remark- able conservation achievements of permanently preserving over 46,000 acres of farmlands and open spaces from urban sprawl in Monterey County. Leslie & Steve Bassi, Cathy Alameda Kiane & Andy Swartz AustinWalter, Geno Boggiatto, Michael Boggiatto George & Kathy Amaral, Heather Golden, Daryl Jensen David Gill, Patricia Schiffman, Louis Frizzell Rob Goodwin, John Goodwin Catherine Lambetecchio, William Brodsley John Laird, Mary Adams Mary & Christopher Perry Christopher & Andrea Valadez Matt & Heidi Simonin Lea & Aaron Johnson Tom Amrhein, Eileen Chauvet, Marilyn Vierra, Wendy Root Askew Photos: Randy Tunnell Ginny Crapo, Molly Steele Richard Nutter, Stephanie Lee Teresa Baudanza, Eric Mora, Gee Gee Mainin