The Annual Open House Gala at the GRF is held during Sebastopol's Apple Blossom Festival. The original barn, located where Burbank Heights Apartments now stand, burned down in 1968. Plants are available from April 'til October at a regular plant sale held at GRF every Wednesday morning from 9 AM to 12 Noon. Take a virtual tour of the present day Gold Ridge Farm. See some experiments that were in progress more than 70 years ago as well as other unique Burbank creations.
Propagation is afoot.
See them now. During his career he introduced over 800 varieties of fruits, flowers, vegetables and grains. He developed many of California's plums and prunes, the ancestor of the Idaho Potato, the Shasta Daisy and novelties such as Plumcots, Thornless Blackberry and the Spineless Cactus. His home in Santa Rosa was primarily a showplace, but he developed and grew thousands of new hybrids, cross breeds and selections at his Experiment Farm in Sebastopol. After Luther died in 1926, Mrs. Burbank established an apple orchard on a portion of the Farm and leased the rest to Stark Bros. Nursery.