Christa, Oscar, Wesley and Eric Pfleeger of Lonely Palm Ranch family photo on the ranch in Arroyo Grande, CA.

Meet the Pfleegers

  • An art ranch on the Central Coast 

    Lonely Palm Ranch is our home and studio in Arroyo Grande, California. We are the Pfleegers: Eric, Christa, Wesley and Oscar. We draw, print and grow things here, and everything we sell starts on this land.

    The Calendar

    • It started with a calendar. 

      Eric has been silk-screening since high school, and Christa has spent twenty years behind a camera. They met at ArtCenter College of Design. When we moved to the ranch, we wanted to make one thing together, by hand, every year.

       

      The Original Lonely Palm Ranch Calendar is that thing. Eric draws the pages, Christa sets the colors, and all four of us, plus friends and neighbors, pull every print. It takes most of the year. People hang it, then frame the pages, and the edition sells out every fall.

    The Ranch

    • After years in New York and Los Angeles, we came back to Christa's hometown. A family friend gave us the chance to take over an old ranch, and it felt meant to be. The dunes, the coast and the hills around us show up on almost every page we print.

    The Orchard

    • The ranch came with a stand of very old Mission olive trees, and we nursed them back to life. During COVID we planted Frantoio and Arbequina to keep bringing the land back. Then came the olive fly, which thrives this close to the coast and took our olives year after year.

       

      This fall, at last, we brought in our first real harvest, picked by hand and milled in Paso Robles the same day. It's delicious, and there's very little of it, so every bottle is numbered by hand, like a print.
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      Eric

      draws and prints. He studied printmaking for eight years, spent his twenties and thirties in New York, and homeschooled the kids. He loves clothes, owns more jackets than closet space, and talks about coffee more than anyone should.

      Christa

      chooses the colors and runs the ranch. She grew up surfing this coast and has been a commercial photographer around the world for the last 20 years. She is happiest with an adventure on the calendar and a project half finished.

      Wesley

      is a photographer, a wilderness EMT and an active member of search and rescue. When she isn't on a call or a shoot, she's climbing, surfing or hiking somewhere on the Central Coast, and she's always the first one into any body of water.

      Oscar

      is an artist, and a really good one. He loves animals, dirt bikes, snowboarding and his friends, not always in that order.