Sonoma County
Whether it's a world-class wine tour or a casual lake-side picnic, Santa Rosa offers many activities for an afternoon or a week-long stay. Find yourself exploring through downtown shops, museums and gardens or visit the hands-on farms and ranches that made Sonoma County products famous.
Famed horticulturist Luther Burbank was among the first to draw the world's attention to this small corner of Northern California, dubbing it "the chosen spot of all the earth, as far as nature is concerned." For nearly 50 years, straddling the turn of the century, the "plant wizard" worked in his experimental gardens in Santa Rosa and on acreage in the nearby town of Sebastopol developing some 800 varieties of fruits, flowers and vegetables before he died in 1926. Largely due to Burbank, the county's suitability for bountiful agriculture became its defining element.
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