Kokopelli Farm offers farm tours to school, community, family, agricultural, environmental, and spiritual groups, as well as to individuals, for educational and recreational purposes. We are a small, rustic, humble, old-fashioned operation that grows mainly berries, using artisan, organic, and holistic practices; we have operated for two-dozen years. Tours start in the redwood stand and we sit on the forest floor, experience nature, and each say what we want from the tour. Then we meander down into the ag zone and sometimes into the Cunningham Marsh below.
The tour can include things such as plant identification, color differentiation, the importance of mulching and composting, business concepts such as time and energy, plant/animal collaboration, eye/hand coordination and growing with nature in mind, rather than against it. For those who are interested, it can also include hands-on training in pruning and other necessary farm activities. Kokopelli’s Catahoula leopard hound can usually accompany us. Non-aggressive dogs of guests can sometimes also join us. Farms can be healing places for people of all ages.
The vegetation includes oak, cedar, fir, coyote bush, California native coffee-berry, rose, mock orange, wildflowers, lilacs, and aloe vera. Wildlife on or near the farm include raccoon, deer, possum, badger, turkey, skunk, quail, fox, bobcat, hawk, owl, and numerous other birds, since it is part of the Pacific Flyway.
During the summer, Kokopelli hires people, including teens, to pick berries. No experience needed; we train people for this early morning experience.
Many tours are free, unless one is part of an institution that can sponsor them, and last for an hour or more. We are located slightly south of Sebastopol, a short distance up from Hard Core Coffee, which is located at the corner of Highway 116 and Bloomfield. To schedule a tour or for more information contact Shepherd, a retired college teacher, at 707-829-8185, after 7 a.m. and before 8 p.m., seven days a week, or at [email protected]. Please circulate this to anyone who might be interested.