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Healdsburg Real Estate

Mill Creek at Millstone Valley Ranch

Felta and Felta Ridge Rd.

The next time you are taking a drive along the winery filled Westside Rd in the Russian River valley, keep your eye out for Felta Road. The turn into this small side street will take you into what is one of the most quietly beautiful neighborhoods in Healdsburg. Felta Road heads west from Westside Road [...]

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Healdsburg Machine Shop

Healdsburg Machine Shop

It’s not typical to get wine industry history, real estate, and fascinating collectibles in one post. The listing of 452 Healdsburg Avenue in Healdsburg as a commercial real estate investment precedes a mid March auction of the contents of the building, a hub of inventiveness in the wine industry after prohibition ended. Healdsburg Machine Shop [...]

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Mill Creek at Millstone Valley Ranch

Conservation Opportunity in Healdsburg

Doing good while you’re doing well. Wealth, whether newly achieved or a family legacy, carries opportunities that aren’t available to everyone. Choosing whether to endow a favored school, subsidize an opera production,  or make donations to favored charities are all legitimate choices for those who can afford to be generous. Many people concerned with the [...]

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Healdsburg Home for Sale

Privacy and Open Space in Healdsburg

Healdsburg real estate showcases many million dollar estates on vineyards and abundant acreage outside of town. I’m happy to present an alternative to those high-priced properties. This listing is inside the city limits with million dollar views and access to hundreds of acres of open space right outside the back door. Think of it as [...]

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Permaculture Solar Panels and Views

Permaculture Opportunity in Dry Creek

Permaculture can be considered as a systematic way to integrate green and sustainable agriculture ideas. The ideas were fleshed out in Australia in the 1970′s, but much core thinking about permaculture is based on cultures that had long duration ecological success, like rice growers in Bali. One of the key principles is to observe your [...]

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Dry Creek Valley

Dry Creek Real Estate

Dry Creek Valley has always been a favored address for permanent and part time wine country residents alike. These days, in addition to the famed Dry Creek zinfandel carpeting the valley floor and hillside vineyards, the valley is home to the dark blue of Healdsburg Sotheby’s International Realty signs (and others) marking some beautiful properties. [...]

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Sonoma County Land

Sonoma County Land Sales over $Million

You would expect a county with a strong agricultural base and rapid residential development to have robust land sales.  In fact, since July of 2005 there have been 171 Sonoma County land transactions valued over one million dollars, almost three transactions per month if you averaged them out evenly. Life is never as simple as [...]

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Gate on Chalk Hill Road in Healdsburg

Chalk Hill Gates

Chalk Hill Road from Healdsburg to Windsor is great to explore when you are looking for a little adventure and some great back road scenery. Today the horses were variously running, sleeping, or rolling in the dust. If your timing is lucky, you are likely to see wild pigs, wild turkeys, and flocks of other [...]

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Felta Rd Rear Lawn

Felta Area of Healdsburg

The Felta Road area of Healdsburg is right at the border of the Dry Creek Valley Appellation and the Russian River Valley Appellation, just west of Westside Road. Felta’s claim to fame includes Westside School, a charming elementary school throwback to a bygone era when teachers knew all the students and the school was a [...]

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Healdsburg Craftsman on Matheson

Downtown Healdsburg Real Estate

Downtown Healdsburg real estate is casually limited by walking distance. You can choose whether to go three or four blocks from the downtown Healdsburg Plaza for your unofficial boundary, but if it takes more than five minutes to walk to a public concert or Farmer’s Market, you aren’t in the downtown core. I would define [...]

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