In 2014, Kyle and Katina Connaughton bought property in Sonoma County, California for a five-acre farm, restaurant, and inn located in downtown Healdsburg.

They worked over two years to cultivate the farm's vegetables and flowers, olive trees, fruit orchards, beehives, chickens, and cattle.

[8] The owners, Kyle and Katina Connaughton, were high school classmates in the suburbs of Los Angeles who married and had two daughters, Chloe and Ava.

[2][3] Kyle Connaughton attended culinary school and worked in several notable restaurants in Los Angeles, including Spago, Campanile, and Suzanne Goin’s AOC and Lucques.

[2][3][9] In 2015, Kyle Connaughton published a cookbook, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking with Naoko Takei Moore.