LUTHER BURBANK’S COTTAGE, GOLD RIDGE EXPERIMENT FARM
RESTORED POST 1906 QUAKE AUGUST 2011 (Click for MORE)
Burbank Farm: Tours by Appointment; Self-Guided Tours 24/7
Museum: Open Thursdays through Sundays, 1 to 4 P.M.
NEW MUSEUM EXHIBIT OPENED OCTOBER 15TH:
“RESTING IN PEACE” a history of West County Cemeteries
Note:
ANNUAL CEMETERY WALK UPDATE
Videos:
Sebastopol, CA, The Link to Its Past narrated by Steve Fowler
Luther Burbank and His Experiment Farm by Lisa Pierce
LUTHER BURBANK’S GOLD RIDGE EXPERIMENT FARM
ESTABLISHED 1885
7781 Bodega Avenue, Enter at 7777
Mail to: 261 So. Main St., Sebastopol CA
MAP
PARKING for Gold Ridge Farm, Open all year, 24/7.
Take your own tour any time: self-guided, free trail-map.
Docent Tours by Appointment Email (or call 707 481-3488).
Plant sale every Wednesday, 9 a.m. to noon.
The Annual Open House Gala at the FARM is held during Sebastopol's Apple Blossom Festival in April each year.
WESTERN SONOMA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Western Sonoma County Historical Society (WSCHS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1974 and incorporated in 1978 to save the 3-acre remnant of Burbank?s Experiment Farm at Gold Ridge in Sebastopol, and, later to help preserve and maintain the unique heritage of the West County area. It is a wholly volunteer work supported by members, a few non-government grants, and donations from the public.
Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Experiment Farm (GRF) is an ongoing project of preservation, restoration, and plant propagation.
The West County Museum (WCM) opened in 1993 in the old downtown electric train station. It mounts two or three new exhibits a year.
The Society also presents annual preservation awards to those who have done an outstanding job of preserving or restoring original architecture or, in building new structures, have kept the flavor and heritage of rural Western Sonoma County.
WSCHS holds FOUR General Meetings during the year. Meetings usually feature programs of a timely or historical theme and include a social hour. The Society supports the BURBANK EXPERIMENT FARM and WEST COUNTY MUSEUM with annual fund-raising events.
The Society now also offers Group tours of Sebastopol's Historic Cemetery (Sebastopol Memorial Lawn). Groups must consist of more then ten people. Tours may be given on week days or weekends, date and time to be arranged with the Historical Society. Post-tour gatherings with refreshments can be arranged at the Burbank cottage (at GRF).
THIS SITE BEST VIEWED WITH SAFARI, CHROME OR FIREFOX
Site Updated JAN 8, 2012