Dig
Deeper


A Timeline:
  • 240 million years: Coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) origins.
  • 20 million years: Coastal redwoods established along the Pacific coast.
  • 12,500 years: documented history of Kashia Band of Pomo peoples.
  • 2000 years: lifespan of Coastal redwood.
  • 175-50 years: logging of 95% of old-growth redwood forests.
  • 55 years: Salmon Creek Farm established as a commune on 33 acres of Coastal redwoods on the Mendocino Coast.
  • 11 years: SCF in new hands and revived as a long-term living art project in 2014.
  • 3 years: Salmon Creek Arts non-profit 501(c)3 established in 2022.
  • 7 months: Salmon Creek Arts takes over programming and operations of SCF in June 2025, including Schools of Salmon Creek.

Photos: Thomas Loof
Salmon Creek features in...
︎︎︎ Periodicals: Panafold and Field Mag issue 1 (cover) 2025, Milk Decoration 2024, Wallpaper* and Courier 2023, GQ 2022, Apartamento issue #28 2021, Apricot 2019, NYT T Magazine 2016.
︎︎︎ Podcasts: Ahali and interviews with co-founder River & original communard Moonlight.
︎︎︎ Videos: Frieze part 1 and part 2 and Sci Arc.
︎︎︎ Books: Artists and the Practice of Agriculture by Silvia Bottinelli 2023, Off-Grid Life 2020, West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California by Iain Boal,‎ Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, 2012.

︎︎︎ SCF Editions: Our Plant Community: A Salmon Creek Farm Collaborative Field Guide, published by A Magic Mountain 2020

︎︎︎ A vital resource: Tending the Wild Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources, M. Kat Anderson 2004

︎︎︎ Grants: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation 2025 and Graham Foundation for California RSVP Cycles 2014.