1970s Mendocino – Real Estate Magazine

Issue 803, Published Fabruary 26, 2026

Larger than life and twice as crazy, the fierce activist and defender of 'God's Whales,' Byrd Baker, joined Greenpeace in confronting enormous whaling ships from Russia, Korea, and China in an inflatable Zodiac, enrolled his friends in a movement he started in Mendocino to end the wholesale slaughter of whales, which contributed to the establishment of a two hundred-mile zone off US coastlines and ended most whaling in the open seas worldwide.

Margaret Fox...An Improbable Life

Issue 787, Published October 28, 2024

Margaret Fox came to Mendocino in 1975 with no formal culinary education, no experience in commercial cooking, without even having worked as a waitress and—improbably—put the Cafe Beaujolais on the food-world's fickle map and forever changed the way we eat on the Mendocino Coast. Margaret recalls her life as an inadvertent trailblazing chef-entrepreneur.