Wave Cut Ranch is located at Belinda Point on the Mendocino Coast in Northern California, just south of Fort Bragg, and only five minutes down a country lane from the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden.

Our name, Wave Cut Ranch, refers to the geomorphology of the flat, stair-stepped marine terraces the ranch is situated on, which are wave cut platforms of nearshore ocean floor that have been uplifted above sea level by the tectonic forces of the San Andreas Fault system.

The weather, habitats, and biogeography of Wave Cut Ranch are heavily marine influenced, and fall at the crossroads of the Pacific Northwest and the California Mediterranean climate zones.

Native habitats on the Ranch include California Coastal Prairie, Northern Coastal Scrub, Shore Pine Woodland, and Pygmy Cypress Woodland.  

Who we are:

We are a husband and wife team who have been working tirelessly since 2024 to restore the natural systems of the ranch, as well as preserving and propagating native plant species on site.

Rowena (nursery owner) is a physical geographer, field botanist, and native of the Northern California coast. Peter is an esteemed ornithologist, author, and lifelong field biologist.

Our goal is to share the geography of California’s living landscapes through conservation and education of native coastal landscapes, and through ecological and sustainable native plant nursery practices and products.

At Wave Cut Ranch we live and work to the sounds of the Pacific Ocean, the songs of Pacific chorus frogs and Barn swallows, the calls of Black oystercatchers, the barking of California sea lions, and the tolling of the buoys off Noyo Harbor.

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