Community and Real Estate in Ukiah and Mendocino County

  Looking for gifts for the body, mind, and soul?  You’ll find them in historic downtown Ukiah.  Three Sisters has long been a place that people like to come and gather and shop.  When it was for sale in 2006, people wanted it to stay in the community, so two midwives, Ellen and Leslie jumped in ...

This past weekend Mendocino County hosted a different kind of festival, The Gaia Festival, a three-day music festival and sustainable-living fair, featuring world-class artists, and sustainable living talks and programs. The festival is held each year just north of the heart of Mendocino County o...

I wrote two recent blogs on summer music events in Mendocino County. The Mendocino Music Festival, classical music and jazz on the coast in Mendocino and Fort Bragg and Sunday's in the Park, folk, county, rock, and blues in the heart of our county, Ukiah. A third festival starts tomorrow, June 17...

Every summer in Ukiah when hot mid-afternoon temperatures give way to cooler evenings, Sundays in the Park free music concerts reaffirm and celebrate the soul of our community.  On the lawn of beautiful Todd Grove Park you see grandparents, parents, college, high school, junior high, elementary, ...

Mendocino County has so much to offer from mountains, parks, vineyards, redwood groves, a rugged coast line with walking and biking trails, world known City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, art centers, and the Mendocino Music Festival.  Just a short drive through the coast mountains and redwoods from Ho...

Matt Miller spends his days crawling under, over, and all around homes in Mendocino County. A thorough pest inspection means protection for homeowners, and homebuyers and sellers - and it means crawling around where some of us don't fit and where more of us prefer not to go.Matt began his career ...

"I've been gardening all my life," Joanne Horn told me. "It runs in the family. My parents were gardeners and my sister owns a nursery!" And now Joanne grows all the herbs used by her home and body care company, AfterGlow Naturals.AfterGlow Naturals was formed in 2000 to provide healthy herbal al...

Early every Saturday morning Charline Ford (and sometimes John) comes down the Willits grade to Ukiah and sets up her table and signs, John Ford Ranch and Here's the Beef, at the Ukiah Farmers Market. Their grass fed herd is on their ranch up the road in Willits.John tells it that years ago they ...

Nestled in Northern California's beautiful Mendocino County wine country, Tres Classique has been in business since 1985. I thank the day I discovered their balsamics at the Ukiah farmers market. I not only use them regularly now but also send them as gifts to very grateful family and friends aro...

A year ago I began posting on the California's Williamson Act and Ag Preserve as a guide in buying and developing land in Mendocino County. See all of my earlier posts for an explanation of the Act at the Ukiah and Mendocino County Real Estate blog. This post reports on the impact of current (3/1...