Jeff & Joan Stanford: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025
For the first time in our innkeeping lives we did not send a Holiday card featuring art by Alex and Kate when young children. Over the past few years [...]
Jeff & Joan Stanford: OUR NEW RESCUE DONKEYS!
We are so excited to welcome the newest members of our family! Four rescue Donkeys!Sid was hoping we'd name them Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, and [...]
Jeff & Joan Stanford: Spring Awakens
Spring’s return in the Northern Hemisphere is a celebration of vibrant renewal – awakening from winter. But there’s a deeper message, regardless of one’s faith: the affirmation of change, [...]
Jeff & Joan Message: Signs of Spring
Winter has descended on much of the country. People hunker down, finding cozy corners in front of fireplaces, with a comforter, perhaps a book. Here, it is different: Nature [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Welcome Spring
"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda ~ Trees are in bud and bloom, fat robins hopping and days lengthening: [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Breathe Easy
Celebrate the Air! Mendocino's air is magnificent, cleansed by sun and sea spray over 5,000 miles of Pacific Ocean. And, when we first arrived, the Coast air was a [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Travel Light
Happy February Let's face it - there is an environmental cost to any and all travel, but we believe it is imperative we all look for ways to minimize that [...]
The Prius Effect
By Sid Garza-Hillman For the record, I’m not anti-Prius and not just because Joan Stanford drives one…but… “The Prius Effect” is a phrase I coined after many years of [...]
Raising Healthy and Happy Vegan Children – Myths and Challenges!
By Sid Garza-Hillman Sid's Kids My three children (13-year-old twins – boy/girl, 18-year-old daughter) have been 100% plant-based since birth (with the exception of breast milk, a [...]
September, a month for beginnings, change, and our 42nd anniversary
September, a month for beginnings, change, and our anniversary: today we celebrate our 42nd on the Mendocino Coast! On September 15, 1980, we moved into what was then Unit [...]