Tucked away in a little corner of our campus, just beyond the gravel lot, you can find the Sonoma Academy garden. Acquired in late 2023, the garden sits on a 5-acre plot of land, along with a pond, an old barn and a house.
This parcel, the Linwood property, is a tool for enhancing education and a space for quiet reflection, which holds many secrets as to what the land Sonoma Academy now sits on once looked like.
As one would expect, during the cold season, the garden is less busy. Co-leader of the Garden Club Lorelai Taylor (‘27) told me, “We were supposed to meet every other week, but it gets really tough, especially right now, we have fewer meetings in the winter because there’s just less to do.”…