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There are some names that keep coming up as we travel around the county, gathering back to the land oral histories: people we just have to interview…

August 8, 2029 — Today we’ll hear from Mac Magruder, who still lives on the ranch his great-grandfather bought in 1919. Mac went off to college and…

This is Kate Magruder with Promise of Paradise, Back to the Land oral histories of Mendocino County. Today we’ll be hearing from John Scharffenberger of…

This is Kate Magruder with Promise of Paradise, back to the land oral histories of Mendocino County. Today we’ll be hearing from Karen Rizzolo of Potter…

September 12, 2019 — Nori Dolan came to Willits in 1974, already knowing how to drive a five-ton truck and ready to move back to the land. She lived in a…

Today we’ll be hearing from Tom Wodetzki of Albion, a long-time political activist. Tom lived on a commune in Albion called Salmon Creek Farm for 15…

This is Kate Magruder with Promise of Paradise, Back to the Land oral histories of Mendocino County. In the early ‘70s, a knot of recent college graduates…

Lynn Meadows moved to the intentional communty of Greenfield Ranch outside Ukiah, CA in 1972 with her husband, Bob Dress. They have lived there ever…

March 28, 2019 -- Today we’ll be hearing from Tom Wodetzki of Albion, a long-time political activist. Tom lived on a commune in Albion called Salmon Creek…

Frey Vineyards put Mendocino County on the map as America’s first organic and biodynamic winery. That wouldn’t have happened if Paul Frey and and his wife…