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Meet the Woman Behind Sonoma’s Volunteer Fire Foundation

November 2022

Jacqui Jorgeson founded the Volunteer Fire Foundation following the Kincade fire. The nonprofit provides financial, wellness, and mental-health support to firefighters.

Sonoma County jazz singer Stella Heath. (Courtesy of Stella Heath)

Meet Sonoma Jazz Singer Stella Heath

September 2022October 2022

The local artist loves to interpret Swing-era jazz standards, along with French gypsy and New Orleans favorites

Petaluma’s The Oyster Girls Want You to Have a Party

September 2022October 2022

The sisters behind Petaluma’s beloved The Shuckery talk knife skills, terroir — and why winter’s oysters are the best of the year. Plus, how to throw an oyster party.

Zack Pace will return as field manager for the Sonoma Stompers in 2019, following a successful 2018 season that saw the team set a Pacific Association League record for games won. (Sonoma Stompers)

Catch Up with Sonoma Stompers Manager Zack Pace

July 2022

After a two-year hiatus, the award-winning Sonoma Stompers manager is ready to get back to baseball this summer.

(Photo courtesy Dawn Heumann)

Flower Farmer Hedda Brorstrom’s 6 Favorite Sonoma Spots

July 2022

The Full Bloom Flower Farm owner and farmer shares her love of flowers along with some favorite west county spots.

outside of Big Bottom Market

A Day Trip on the Russian River, Inspired by Guerneville’s Michael Volpatt

June 2022June 2022

Take a tour of restaurants, wine shops and more in the Russian River Valley, where you just might run into the Big Bottom Market owner himself.

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Meet the Bay Area Filmmaker Who Makes Short Films for Nonprofits

June 2022

Graton-based Jake Viramontez created an initiative that offers to make films for free for nonprofits in need, such as Sebastopol's Ceres Community Project.

Scribe Winery’s head farmer, Stephen Carter, lived many lives before finding his way into farming. His carefully tended organic gardens are a thing of beauty in the spring. (Eileen Roche/for Sonoma Magazine)

Meet the Head Farmer at One of Sonoma’s Most Beautiful Winery Gardens

March 2022April 2022

Reveling in the season’s most beautiful vegetables with farmer Stephen Carter of Sonoma’s Scribe Winery.

Interior Designer Shares His Favorite Sonoma Spots

February 2022

Cesar Chaves creates beautiful home interiors, but he describes his own tastes as “kind of simple.”

Shugri Salh yearns to return to the red East African desert of her youth. But her native Somalia is controlled by a strict and conservative Muslim sect and she would not feel safe. So she hikes the meadows and woodlands near her Santa Rosa home. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat)

‘The Last Nomad’: One Woman’s Journey From the Somali Desert to Santa Rosa

October 2021May 2022

Author and Santa Rosa resident Shugri Said Salh fled her war-torn native Somalia. At Crane Creek Regional Park, she found spaces that stir memories of her childhood in the desert.

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