What Not to Miss in Greater Northern California

SONOMA COUNTY: RELISH CULINARY ADVENTURES

Cooking Class with Chef John Ash in a peach orchard? Mushroom foraging, cheese making or head to tail butchering classes? Yes please. Relish Culinary Adventures has been doing all this and more from their Healdsburg home. View their catalog and sign up for something adventurous; learn “pickles, vinegar & shrubs”? Lets do it. Relishculinary.com

LAKE COUNTY: THE TALLMAN HOTEL

The Bluewing Saloon at the Tallman Hotel is the spot for a destination brunch. Devotees flock to Upperlake from far and wide for crab benedict or Italian donut holes in the open-air courtyard. Live music fills the air most weekends. This historic stagecoach stop hides a sustainable side including geothermal and solar heating systems and fast charging vehicle stations. Minutes outside of Ukiah, California. Tallmanhotel.com

HUMBOLDT COUNTY: HUMBOLDT BAY OYSTER TOURS

“Wind in your hair, mud in your eye, and tasty oysters in your belly,” is the promise of the Humboldt Bay Oyster Tours. Produced by small farmers, some of the most delectable oysters are grown in waters of Humboldt Bay, like the highly prized, tiny Japanese Kumamoto Oyster. See first hand what it takes to make these delicacies, just as soon as you wipe that mud out of your eye. Humboldtbayoystertours.com