Oak Hill Farm
Oak Hill Farm

Donated by Sonoma Land Trust Founder Otto Teller in 1985, the conservation easement over Oak Hill Farm ensures that the 700 acres of farmed and wild lands along Sonoma Highway in Glen Ellen will never be developed.  Hikers in the gently sloping foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains find footprints of big cats, but shoppers at Oak Hill Farm’s Red Barn find organic garlic braids for holiday gifts and fabulous tomatoes for summer salads.  Oak Hill Farm, now owned and operated by Anne Teller, is adjacent to the 300 acre Secret pasture, a wildlife preserve which became, in the late ‘70’s, the first land owned and managed by the Trust.

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Old Orchard
Old Orchard

“…I think his spring orchard canvasses are going to travel well through time, both forward and backward too. The transcendentalist in Thoreau would recognize the almost astral field their energies set up – as if the stars came out in daylight.”

BARMECIDE FEAST, essay by John Fitz Gibbon, 1996

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On the Turquois Trail
On the Turquois Trail

“…Stuppin’s paintings produce a serotonin rush of pleasure.  In part this comes from the kind of naivete or innocence they embody, and in part comes from their visual richness.  But there is more at work on these surfaces.  Stuppin employs a series of compositional strategies-rhythmic patterns and careful juxtapositions of color-calculated to capture and reveal the essential unifying principals of the natural world.  The paintings provide us with a sense of sacredness inherent in each moment and each place, to which we are invited, along with the artist, to feel, to contemplate, and to revere.” Miriam Roberts, Santa Fe

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Pegasus Ranch
Pegasus Ranch

PEGASUS RANCH Petaluma, California

Pegasus Ranch owned by the Bachman family is a 289 acre scenic property along Lakeville Highway and the Petaluma River south of the City of Petaluma.  The ranch with its picket fences and rows of eucalyptus trees, has been principally used for raising and stabling thoroughbred races horses, but lately has been undergoing a transformation to wine grape production.  The land is in the Carneros appellation, known principally for producing fine white wine and sparkling wines.  The property is currently under negotiation for protection by the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District.

The Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District was formed in 1990 by a vote of the people of Sonoma County to help halt the growing loss of farmland and natural scenic landscapes in the County.  By the end of 1998 the District had protected over 11 properties totaling 28,000 acres.  For more information contact the District at (707) 524-7360

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