New Petaluma ‘Agrihood’ Offers Sustainable Luxury Living

Homes on the 30-acre Petaluma agrihood property, which includes a community farm, start at $3.6 million.


Homebuyers yearning to bring the slow food movement closer to home may see a unique opportunity at Live Oak Farm Lane in Petaluma. Three new luxury homes and four ready-to-build lots are available on the property, dubbed an “agrihood,” a neighborhood with a communal working farm.

Live Oak Farm has century-old beginnings as a chicken-and-egg supplier, during a time when Petaluma was known as The Egg Basket of the World.

Exemplifying the area’s history is the 100-year-old oak tree and four original farmhouses that stand on the 30-acre property today. Green energy entrepreneur Randy Goldstein purchased the site in 2014. Goldstein partnered with local experts to create a development that would deepen residents’ connection to the land as well as their food sources.

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Great room in a home at Live Oak Farm in Petaluma, which also includes a communal farm. (Darren Loveland)
Petaluma agrihood Live Oak Farm
View from the great room. (Darren Loveland)

Live Oak Farm will eventually be a neighborhood of 14 homes on seven two-acre sites alongside the community farm. The property also has a modern pavilion that functions as an educational venue. Home prices start at $3,600,00.

The modern homes have a farmhouse-forward design with board and batten siding and roofs pitched more steeply than those of ranch houses. Sonoma County-based Wright Residential, Farrell-Faber & Associates and Julie Buckner Design collaborated on the homes.

Interior color palettes are tranquil, lending focus to the surrounding terrain — the golden hills and green farmland. Exquisite stone, tile and wood elements deliver this subtlety with rich pattern and texture.

For more information on the homes and lots at Live Oak Farm Lane, contact listing agents Tim Little, 707-849-9570, Alexa Glockner, 415-710-3663, Hedge Realty, 103 H St., Suite B,  Petaluma, homeatliveoakfarm.com