Nov/Dec 2025
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Good Gray
A Mother/Daughter Commonplace Shop Bringing Art and Beauty to Everyday Life. photos by Paige Green When Laural Reid was opening her shop back in 2013, she took inspiration from the early 20th century hobby of creating commonplace books. Kind of like the Pinterest of their time, commonplace books were a type of journal used to collect and organize…
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Bubbly Bliss: Breathless Wines’ Sharon Cohn and Penny Gadd-Coster
The holiday season finds its perfect liquid accomplice in the effervescence of sparkling wine, and in Sonoma County, this pleasure is elevated by the region’s long-standing tradition of producing world-class bubbles. There’s an undeniable joy in the lively cascade of tiny bubbles that instantly transforms any gathering, from a casual family brunch to a sophisticated…
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Local Same-Day Delivery Enters Its Prime
Introducing Trellus: The E-Commerce Marketplace with Same-Day Delivery. Made Local Magazine’s parent organization, GO LOCAL Sonoma County Cooperative, is excited to partner with a new local shopping platform: Trellus. This innovative e-commerce site, launching November 11, offers same-day delivery on local purchases—a refreshing alternative for shoppers looking to break away from the online giants. How…
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Hidden Gems: Gifting Local
Brick Chicks All the Brick-heads in your life need to know about California Brick Chicks. This Lego emporium is tucked into a small building on Main Street in Penngrove. Now entering its third year, Brick Chicks offers an astounding array of new and retired Legos. There really is something for everyone here, and owners…
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For the Love of Oysters
Oysters bring the winter magic. Like a universe of twinkling stars illuminating a dark winter sky, a plate of freshly harvested oysters invites us to consider the world of possibilities. Served with an ice-cold martini or glass of fizzy bubbles or other libation, oysters ignite the excitement of the season, especially in winter. Though we…
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Jardín del Pueblo: The People’s Garden – Farmworker families grow food for themselves and those in need.
Pants freshly stained with grape juice after a long night harvesting a nearby vineyard, a worker arrives to a farm just outside Healdsburg. After an exhausting shift, he should be heading straight for a shaded hammock for some much-deserved rest. Instead, he walks between towering banana plants and a greenhouse strung with drying hibiscus flowers…
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Acorn Harvest
Sonoma, Mendocino, and Lake counties share the ancestral territory of Pomo, Miwok, and Wappo Peoples. Today, we are working to reclaim the health of our people and homelands through the food sovereignty efforts of cultivating and harvesting our traditional foods. Food sovereignty is the inherent right to access traditional foods and resources, without any GMOs,…
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A Season of Celebration
Sonoma County is never at a loss for inspiring happenings, but the holiday season kicks it into overdrive with events, performances, and fairs to fuel the holiday spirit. Here is a sampling that caught our eye. Sonoma County Beekeepers Association Holiday Boutique Saturday, November 22 | 10am-4pm Many local vendors and crafters. The perfect event…
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Panoramic Preserve
Enjoy the 5-mile stretch of trails available in the new Estero Americano Coast Preserve. New public spaces should always be celebrated. The Estero Americano Coast Preserve is a new and significant 547-acre conservation area near Bodega Bay that is now open to the public. It protects a critical stretch of coastal landscape, encompassing coastal prairie, grasslands,…