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︎︎︎ 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.
︎︎︎ 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.
A Timeline:
- 240 million years: origins of Coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens).
- 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.
- 1870’s: logging of virgin Coastal redwood forest at Salmon Creek.
- 1950’s: logging and burning of second growth redwoods at Salmon Creek.
- 1971: Salmon Creek Farm established as a commune on 33 acres on the Mendocino Coast.
- Late 1980’s: the original commune gradually dissolves and cabins are rented out.
- 2014: Artist Fritz Haeg purchases Salmon Creek Farm from the last 13 shareholding communards.
- 2022: Non-profit 501c3 Salmon Creek Arts.
- 2025: Salmon Creek Arts takes over year round programming and operations of SCF including Schools of Salmon Creek.