Discover all there is to know about Northwest Sonoma County inside DISCOVERIES magazine. Quarterly full-color issues feature arts, events and entertainment calendars plus in-depth stories that cover wine country cuisine, recreation, personalities, history, and more.

Summer 2010 issue

  A Fruitful Heritage

 A pioneering family's fruit ranch is still producing tasty and uncommon varieties from the slopes of the Russian River Valley     

Bryce Austin's appeciation of a fruit tree is both environmental and genetic. His three-acre orchard, containing some two hundred trees, includes a century old Mission fig tree planted by his mother when she was a young girl.  More…

 That'll Do

Sheepdogs tend to herd their owners towards the ranching life

It used to be that ranchers had sheep and needed dogs to work them. These days the situation is often reversed. Many Sonoma County residents have fallen    in love with sheepdogs—so much so they end up buying sheep and becoming ranchers to satisfy the dog's desire to herd.  More…

 Into the Earth: Wine Caves

Area wineries are reviving an age-old storage and aging method

 For centuries, ever since hunter-gatherers turned their inventive minds to agriculture, humans have faced the dilemma of how to mitigate the effects of  weather on food More. . .

Day Tripping
Driving to the River

Exploring what remains of Sonoma County's historic 'vacation wonderland' along the lower reach of the Russian River

It always feels good to see the tall trees looming up at Mirabel on a hot summer day when you're driving west out River Road to the Russian River. More…