Photo by Paul Zaretsky
Healthy Lands, Helping Hands
Elkhorn Slough Foundation is excited to be part of this year’s Monterey County Gives! campaign — hosted by the Monterey County Weekly, Community Foundation for Monterey County, and Monterey Peninsula Foundation — to support critically important land stewardship caring for more than 4,000 acres under our protection. From November 12 through the end of the year, when you give through Monterey County Gives, your gift will help us meet a generous challenge and be boosted with a percentage match. When you and your friends support us with a contribution through Monterey County Gives, you’re taking local action to address global challenges, by helping to protect and restore sensitive habitat that supports bountiful local biodiversity. Elkhorn Slough has earned multiple acknowledgments for its conservation importance. It’s up to our community to protect and restore these vital and rare habitats, and conserve the biodiversity of our region. So, whether you’re a new member or just want to leverage your year-end gift, visit
www.montereycountygives.com/elkhorn to learn how you can support ESF’s important land restoration and stewardship work in the Elkhorn Slough watershed. n 4
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from friends and colleagues, and drastically altered our daily routines. Wildfires raged on the Central Coast and across the West, displacing friends and loved ones, and darkening the skies. Compounding these challenges for many families, food insecurity — an unavailability of affordable, quality food — looms as another cloud on an already dark horizon. Yet amid these hardships, we see bright rays of hope, Connie Norris, Food Service Supervisor at Hall generosity, and District Elementary School flanked by farmers Jesus solidarity. Each week, Calvillo (left) and Javier Zamora (right) our partners in the Healthy Lands, Helping Hands initiative — a collaboration between the Elkhorn Slough Foundation, local farmers, and area school districts — team up to combat food insecurity by distributing boxes of fresh, organic produce to children and families in need, as well as recipes for
