As the Mendocino Coast is getting ready for the upcoming 2011 Mendocino Coast Whale Festivals, most people don’t realize that Mendocino declared war on Japan and the Soviet Union in 1975. The inspiration started in June 1975, when a Greenpeace Foundation patrol boat located a Russian Whaling fleet killing Sperm whales off Cape Mendocino. They [...]

As of December 1, the Dungeness crab season has now opened on the Mendocino coast. The local fisherman have there crab pots loaded on there boats ready to brave the ocean conditions to catch the bounty of delicious Dungeness crab, makes everyone excited about the upcoming Mendocino County Crab & Wine Days. Every January Mendocino [...]

Mendocino County has over 3,000 types of wild mushrooms. Some of the favorites are chanterelles, porcinis, morels, and hedgehogs, and even the extremely rare candy cap mushroom, with its intense maple-syrup flavor, that grows only along the northern coast of California. The highlight of mushroom season is Mendocino county’s Annual 10 day Wine & Mushroom [...]

The Yorkville Highlands 11th Annual Wine Festival will be held Saturday, August 14, from 2-6 pm., at the Meyer Family Cellars (mile marker 34.2) between Cloverdale and Boonville on Highway 128. Mendocino County has many award winning wines and a total of 6 appellations. There is the Redwood Valley, Potter Valley, Cole Ranch, McDowell Valley, [...]

Music on the edge of the world. Come to the beautiful Village of Mendocino for the 24th Annual Mendocino Music Festival from July 10 through July 24. Every year mid-July they build a concert hall Performance Tent, all 16, 000 Square feet of it that can house a full symphony, from the ground up at [...]

The 2010 Mendocino Film Festival will be held on June 4, 5, 6. This year also includes the screenings of two Academy Award winning films with their directors in attendance. This includes the Best Feature Documentary Award winner The Cove, directed by Louis Psihoyos, won Best Documentary Feature. The film features Ric O’Barry, who trained [...]

Come to the Mendocino Coast and join us for the 28th Annual Mendocino Coast Whale Festivals. The 2010 celebration is all about the migration of the Pacific Gray Whales and their newborn calves. The migrating whales, numbering between 20,000 to 23,000 individuals, pass by the Mendocino Coast twice each year. The first three weekends of [...]

There will be wineries from around the world participating in this annual festival. It is a celebration of Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc and other noble Alsace varietals. Anderson Valley located on Highway 128 in Mendocino County offers a cooler climate, which provides and ideal growing condition for Alsace varietals. In the late 1960′s [...]

Mark your calendar for January 22-31, 2010 for the 11th Annual Crab & Wine Days throughout Mendocino County. Before Mendocino County was founded in the 1850’s our rugged coastline has been home to generations of fisherman who harvest the bounties of our cold, clear Pacific Ocean. Inhabiting these waters is one of the most vital [...]