January, 2024

BVCA doings:

January 25: In-person BVCA Board meeting at the Grange, 5:30 - 6:30—c’mon out!


February 6: Candidate Forum Night 6:30 at the Grange. District 1 Supervisor Candidates Rebecca Hermosillo and Jonathan Mathieu will present their views and answer questions for Bennett Valley residents.


May: Our BVCA Spring Picnic—date TBD

Yulupa Mountain Ranch

The Voice plans to run a series of articles about the natural beauty of Bennett Valley, highlighting unique properties and their owners’ perspectives. What better way to start this series than with a visit to Yulupa Mountain Ranch, in an interview with Ned and Vivien MacDonald, its current owners? …Read more

Stone Age Economics in Bennett Valley, Part 1

Pre-contact Bennett Valley peoples were resourceful, innovative makers and traders. The Annadel obsidian resource was a prized raw material, and Pomo baskets are widely considered to be the finest made anywhere in the world…Read more

Announcing the Bennett Valley Conservancy Fund:


In 2023 the BVCA created the Conservancy Fund to provide financial resources to protect Bennett Valley from commercial developments that violate our Bennett Valley Area Plan (BVAP). The BVAP was approved by the board of supervisors in1979. It is the result of residents who are passionate about preserving our rural and peaceful community, our flora and fauna, wildlife corridors, and scarce water resources. The BVCA is committed to preserving the Bennett Valley we all know and love.

Today the County is pushing to attract and permit unsightly commercial and retail cannabis operations in Bennett Valley, which are blatant violations of our BVAP. The commercial and industrial developments masquerade as “farming.” The BVCA opposes commercial development from changing Bennett Valley forever.


Your donation to the Conservancy Fund provides financial resources to hire lawyers and expert consultants to resist the County’s misguided policies.


Update on North Sonoma Mountain Regional Park Development


BVCA Board members met in November with County representatives to prevent camping and campfires in the park. The risk is just too high to support such activities, and …Read more

2024 Sonoma Mountain Road Improvements

The roads in Bennett Valley have been improving since 2011 when we founded Save Our Sonoma Roads. A section of Sonoma Mountain Road between Sonoma Ridge Lane and Mountain Meadow Lane, about 1.2 miles in length, will be upgraded this summer. The $700,000 project is paid for by settlement funds from PG&E for the 2017 Nuns Fire…Read more

Wedding Coming Up?

The charming and historic Bennett Valley Grange Hall is available for your party, reception, meeting, dance, memorial, family reunion, showers, etc.! The 1873 building is the best kept secret in the County for…Read More