About This Farm

The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) was formed in August 1965. A few months later, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Dora Hunt, Tom Fuller, John Tucker, and Mary Ann Wohlers set a meeting for December 13, 1965 to establish a Sacramento Valley Chapter (SVC) of CNPS. SVC was the first chapter of the new CNPS to be created. Early activity of the chapter was primarily field trips and monthly meetings, held in conjunction with the C.M. Goethe Arboretum Society (which supported the arboretum at Sacramento S