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Vegetable Garden and Orchard

Vegetable Garden and Orchard from directly overhead

Vegetable Garden and Orchard is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 30 m. Cahto Peak stands 1,284 m to the north-northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Dahlia Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. 114 named places lie within 25 miles, 24 of them named summits.

The Vegetable Garden at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens is a five-acre garden has a mix of annual and perennial vegetables, medicinal herbs, edible herbs, plants used for dyeing, fruit trees, and flowering plants that attract beneficial insects.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
Access
Yes
Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.40700, -123.81226
Around it

114 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 25
  • Heritage Rose Collection: 0.2 mi
  • Perennial Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Pomo Bluffs Park: 1.3 mi
  • Noyo Headlands Park: 1.7 mi
  • Main Street Historic Commercial District: 2.5 mi
Peaks: 24
  • Noyo Hill: 4.1 mi
  • Bald Hill: 5.1 mi
  • Observatory Hill: 6.7 mi
  • McGuire Hill: 10.6 mi
  • Mathison Peak: 11.4 mi
Nature reserves: 14
  • Otis R. Johnson Wilderness Park: 2.7 mi
  • Caspar Headlands State Reserve: 3.1 mi
  • Caspar Headlands State Natural Reserve: 3.2 mi
  • Caspar Headlands State Natural Reserve: 3.2 mi
  • Caspar Headlands State Natural Reserve: 3.2 mi
Beaches: 12
  • Noyo Beach: 1.6 mi
  • Jug Handle Beach: 2.1 mi
  • Fort Bragg Landing: 2.4 mi
  • Caspar Headlands State Beach: 3.2 mi
  • Pudding Creek Beach: 3.6 mi
Museums: 10
Natural arches: 8
  • Jughandle: 2.3 mi
  • Blowhole: 5.4 mi
  • Whale Rock Arch: 10.5 mi
  • Arch of the Navarro: 15.1 mi
  • Wharf Rock West Arch: 19.7 mi
Picnic sites: 5
Gardens: 4
Historic sites: 4
Artworks: 2
Attractions: 2
Lighthouses: 1
  • Point Cabrillo Light Station: 4.1 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Chamberlain Creek Waterfall: 12.5 mi
Cliffs: 1
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Vegetable Garden and Orchard. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cahto PeakNNE 33°1,284 m23.0 mi
Signal PeakNNE 31°1,241 m23.9 mi
Strong MountainNE 55°978 m19.3 mi
Sherwood PeakENE 66°977 m17.6 mi
Brush MountainNE 54°944 m20.3 mi
Two RockE 99°809 m19.8 mi
Irene PeakESE 102°802 m23.2 mi
Williams PeakESE 106°784 m22.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1918:5219:28
June solstice05:4920:0620:46
September equinox07:0418:3819:14
December solstice07:3316:1316:56

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F464748505355575757544946
Precip in7.77.36.43.61.60.70.10.10.22.34.58.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — FT Bragg 5 N, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • California Sea Lion138 obs
  • Button's Banana Slug93 obs
  • Sea Thrift84 obs
  • California poppy76 obs
  • Harbor Seal75 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird70 obs
  • Footsteps of spring68 obs
  • Western Gull67 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/341369054

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