Planning for fall
Everyone start planning your fall veggie garden….great time to grow kale,cabbage,chard, and lettuce also plant your bulbs for garlic and onions. Sugar snap peas and snow peas can be started from seed now to be planted out in the garden next month. Always protect them from birds by covering with floating row cover. Their roots ...
The unique contribution of Cornerstone
What is the unique contribution of Cornerstone? What can one expect to take away from this strangely wonderful mix of gardens, art, and ecology? Much has been written already about the gardens as art—as personal expressions by some of the very best landscape architects working today. Cornerstone is an international center for design experimentation, a ...
You Say Tomato
The Results Are In! Over 120 tomato aficionados showed up Sunday to watch a Spicy Gazpacho cooking demo by Master Chef Eric Hollis, taste 22 tomato varieties from the Cornerstone’s Kitchen Garden and 22 varieties from contestants’ home gardens, and vote for their favorites. Participants’ home-growns could compete in one or all three of the ...
Hanging With Andy
I’d like to give a very special thank you to Christian Berman for capturing the days here with Andy and the whole crew.
It Takes a Village…
It Takes a Village to Create a Garden Before Andy Cao arrived at Cornerstone fresh off a Leob fellowship at Harvard, I wondered what to expect. Would he be some holier-than-thou Designer with a severe case of badassitude? And his design team: a coterie of crackpots from LA, impossibly trendy in head-to-toe black? I needn’t ...
David Fenton at Zipper
Artist David Fenton will present his “rebirth” series at Zipper in CornerStone Sonoma opening Labor Day Weekend. Join us to meet the artist at a reception on Saturday, September 3rd from 2-5PM. The show will continue throughout the weekend and on ’til October 15th. Don’t miss this intelligent, thought-provoking and engaging new exhibit!
Incidental Placemaking
Cornerstone welcomes globally celebrated landscape artist Andy Cao. Join us for his lecture Incidental Placemaking at The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art on Thursday, July 7 at 6:00pm. Andy will discuss contemporary landscape architecture focusing on his two new gardens currently being created at Cornerstone Sonoma. The museum is located at 551 Broadway in Sonoma, ...
