Salmon Creek Farm is a sanctuary of precious riparian and coastal redwood forest habitat, on Central Pomo land, established as a counterculture commune in 1971, now a long-term living art project shaped by many hands, a sort of queered commune-farm-homestead-school.


photo by Iwan Baan

Salmon Creek Farm is a place to be slow, to take a deep breath and a step back, in both solitude and sociability. It is a place to be embodied. With hands in soil enriched with your compost, sprouting seasonal organic foods. Watered from the spring. You tend a warming fire with wood from the land sheltered by cabins crafted with scavenged materials, furnished with local finds. No plastics in sight. Feeling small under giants that live for millennia.
We aim to continually expand the views and voices informing the place and broaden the range of folks coming to the land. Lowering harriers wherever possible to those who feel drawn to visit. As a queer owned and run space it has a special sense of sanctuary for those who often don't feel safe or welcome in rural spaces especially BIPOC and queer folks. In 2022 the non-profit 501c3 organization Salmon Creek Arts was established that has since taken over programming and operations, and will eventually take ownership of Salmon Creek Farm.