POINT REYES STATION, Calif. (KGO) — The Bay Area has changed a lot in the past 100 years, but not around Point Reyes.
The area looks similar to when Bob Giacomini’s grandfather opened a dairy farm in Petaluma around 1900.
“He had about 10 cows, 400 to 500 chickens and raised six kids,” said Giacomini, whose father Waldo Giacomini opened his own dairy farm in Point Reyes in 1938.
Bob Giacomini followed in the family business by starting a dairy farm of his own on a hill overlooking Tomales Bay in 1959. The cows he has now are all descendants of his original cows.
“In the 62 years that I have been here, we have produced four daughters and increased the herd from 110 to 450,” he said.
Those four daughters – Karen, Diana, Lynn and Jill – didn’t plan to work in the farm. Their mother, Dean Mae Giacomini, encouraged them to get a college …