Pliny the Younger — Final 3 Days
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Closes Thursday April 2. Last chance this year.
Why go: Three days left. Go.
Your Sonoma Chef cheat sheet for the next 90 days — Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Windsor, Santa Rosa, Cloverdale, Guerneville, Forestville, Point Reyes, and northern Sonoma County.
Price is per person for a typical meal, or the posted ticket price for special dinners. Some cards show both.
Gold badge = don't miss it. 90 days gives you runway to plan ahead.
Closes Thursday April 2. Last chance this year.
25+ wineries, complimentary tastings, 10% off wine, all month. No ticket counters. Build your own tasting day.
Blossoms of Oz. Saturday 10 AM parade, festival at Ives Park Saturday–Sunday. Art show at Sebastopol Center for the Arts both days. Community, orchard roots, live music, local wine and cider.
50+ wineries, celebrity chefs, live music. Friday Twilight Welcome Party at Bacchus Landing: Chef Kevin O'Connor open-fire cooking, DJ Saint Rose Disco, 20+ wineries. Saturday Toast & Taste 9:30–11 AM. Three full days.
Two days, dozens of farms open their gates. Spring fields, animals, tastings, workshops. Free registration required — gives you the insider guide and map.
Four days at The Matheson, The Madrona, and Montage Healdsburg. Vineyard tours, chef demos, wine seminars, grand tasting with 150+ producers. Proceeds benefit vineyard workers' scholarship fund.
Runs through late June — adds early summer, coastal stops, and farmers markets at full stride.
Small-group tours: oyster farm, meadery, organic vegetable farm, cheese, farm lunch. 4–8 guests.
Hosted cheeseboard and seasonal chef's lunch at The Fork overlooking Tomales Bay.
Outdoor oyster bar on Tomales Bay. Raw, BBQ, chowder.
Spring through early summer: asparagus, strawberries, snap peas, then stone fruit and the first heirloom tomatoes by June. Show up early.
Opens its Saturday season in May. Local growers, cheese, bread, cut flowers, prepared food vendors.
Edible plants, flowers, pollinators at a working farm. A good add-on to any food day.
Independent producer. Zinfandel, Cabernet, Petite Sirah. No crowds, no ticket fees. Real conversation with the people making the wine.
The Russian River corridor earns more attention in late spring and early summer. Farmhouse Inn in Forestville for the polished dinner. Boon Eat + Drink in Guerneville for something more casual and farm-sourced. Redwoods make everything taste better.
Tock aggregates chef-driven dinners, winery experiences, and special tastings across Sonoma County. Pop-ups and farm dinners drop with short lead times and sell fast. Set a Sonoma County alert.
The premier Northern California celebration of LGBTQIA+ women, held annually each May in Guerneville. Winemaker dinners, vineyard tours, live music, community gatherings along the Russian River.
Weekend 1 (April 24–26): Apple Blossom Festival in Sebastopol and Passport to Dry Creek Valley in Healdsburg. Friday fire-cook in Healdsburg, Saturday parade in Sebastopol, Sunday back in Dry Creek Valley.
Weekend 2 (May 2–3): Farm Trails Spring Tour countywide — walk the farms Saturday, Sebastopol Farmers Market Sunday.
Weekend 3 (May 14–17): Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience. By mid-May the spring produce season is fully awake.
Any weekend in April or June: Point Reyes Food & Farm Tour + Hog Island oysters on Tomales Bay. One of the best day trips the Bay Area has to offer, and almost no one from Sonoma County does it enough.
90 days of real seasonal eating — community orchards, farm-gate access, coastal seafood, vineyard dinners, and early summer farmers markets at full stride.
All major events are verified with current confirmed URLs. Apple Blossom: April 25–26 (official Sebastopol Chamber). Passport to Dry Creek: April 24–26 (official DCV Winegrowers). Farm Trails: May 2–3 (official Farm Trails site). Healdsburg Wine & Food: May 14–17 (official event site). Womens Weekend Russian River: May 15–18 (Sonoma County Tourism).
The 90-day window adds the Russian River corridor warming up in late spring, Tock as a standing alert for pop-up chef dinners, and the Healdsburg and Sebastopol farmers markets opening their seasonal stride. Point Reyes and West Marin belong here — same food ecosystem, same agricultural values, different terrain.
sonomacounty.com/events · wineroad.com/events · exploretock.com · farmtrails.org/events · thesonomalocal.com · drycreekvalley.org · alexandervalley.org · russianriverbrewing.com · appleblossomfest.com · healdsburgwineandfood.com · foodandfarmtours.com · visitmarin.org · bohemian.com · sebastopolfarmersmarket.org · golocal.coop
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