Granja experimental Gold Ridge de Luther Burbank - Sebastopol, California

Cynthia E

Educational and restful.

More or less accessible if using a walker.

Plant nursery, as well. Honor system for purchases.

Self guided tours.

Paco

Amazing group of volunteers! Wonderful plant collection and walking tour. A real historic working treasure.

Thomas Eddy

A quirky, marvelous place for history and horticulture buffs alike. It's a little confusing to find adjacent to an apartment complex, but it's worth the visit... especially if you combine the visit with Luther Burbank's Home and Garden in Santa Rosa. An all-volunteer operation, do not expect a polished retail nursery setting. Go to find unusual plants and study Burbank's plant introductions. It's an underutilized site, but its location prevents greater exposure and increased visitors. I enjoyed its low-key, peaceful setting.

julie

Scenery is beautiful but it wasn't as large as I thought it would be. The self guided tour was easy by scanning the QR code on you phone.

Volunteers- hardworking, friendly and dedicated

Nursery- was nice if you want to take some plants home and the price was overall reasonable.

Parking and how to get to the facility. Difficult. I saw the sign for the garden
But when I turn in, it says no parking only for residents. It turned out the garden was at the top of the hill within the senior living apartments. Once you reach the top of the hill, you will see signage and the little house. There is a few parking spaces. I had parked on the street and one of the nice resident told me to walk past the builds and up the hill to find the garden.

It was nice but nothing I would make a special trip for.

Ian Eales

A link to when fruits were not hybridized tasteless Blechh.
We had ripe, sweet and juicy apples like those we used to swipe from neighbor's trees when we were kids.
Every kid in America should taste these and revolt against the Supermarket garbage.

Randa Hanson

Love walking through the gardens!! My grandmother lives in the apartments nextdoor/on the grounds and it's really nice to be able to cross the driveway and walk through the orchard, there are some truly wonderful, *old* trees and plants and I love the plaques with the names and details for each one/grouping

Kersten Chisti Dryden

Love it!! We visited on a Wednesday and you should too.

Volunteers are there on Wednesday and they are full to the brim with knowledge, history, and contemporary happenings of Luther Burbank's farm and his life. You can visit his cottage and learn about his life. You can buy a plant they propogated from seed or buy jam they made from peaches that Luther's stone fruits trees produced.

There is much history in motion here and worthwhile historical wisdom to build on. Question is, what is beautiful? And, what is practical?, and, which is more important?

Diane Warren

I moved here recently and I can walk to this place. It’s has lovely gardens and trees. It’s a calm place, not a place to get a big hike or run, unless I haven’t discovered it yet.