A former commune the place Steve Jobs frolicked on weekends within the early Seventies is up on the market. The homeowners of an Oregon farm declare the apple orchard on the property is the exact same one which impressed Steve Jobs to call his firm “Apple.”
Whereas the declare concerning the naming of the corporate after an apple orchard seems like good ol’ iffy actual property advertising, the declare is legitimate, and who wouldn’t prefer to make a number of additional bucks off that little bit of historical past?
As reported by Oregon Stay, the “All One Farm” close to McMinnville can now be had for the tidy sum of $5 million. Property report searches carried out by the publication point out that that is the primary time the farm has been put up on the market since Steve Jobs’ school buddy, Robert Friedland, turned it right into a commune within the early Seventies.
Friedland and Jobs have been each college students at Oregon’s Reed Faculty on the time, and the pair reportedly had a shared curiosity in Japanese spirituality. So, whereas Friedland discovered followers to work there without spending a dime, Jobs hung on the market on weekends, serving to to work the farm.
Sadly, Oregon Stay was unable to verify whether or not the commune nonetheless exists, or why the present homeowners determined to offer in to the crass commercialism of the person.
Whereas the homeowners aren’t shy about dropping Steve Jobs’ title to achieve publicity for the sale, they don’t look like utilizing it to squeeze a better promoting worth. The asking worth is definitely a bit decrease than the market common within the space.
The All One Farms itemizing on the Windermere realtor website says the property contains 387 acres throughout 5 parcels, and the worth features a 4-bedroom and a pair of.5-bathroom essential home totalling 5,260 sq. ft. The farm, positioned at 11890 S.W. Dupee Valley Highway, outdoors McMinnville, additionally contains a big barn with a ballroom flooring, an out of doors kitchen, and a greenhouse.
For the reason that farm hasn’t been bought since at the least the Seventies, the one method to estimate its true worth is to check it to surrounding properties and their most up-to-date sale costs.
In February 2025, a 350-acre property positioned roughly 70 miles away was bought for $6 million, $1 million greater than the All One Farms asking worth. In the meantime, one other property, roughly 165 miles away, which included 356 acres of farmland and a 1,668-square-foot constructing, bought in June 2024 for $6.5 million.
So, Steve Jobs Simply Hung Out There on Weekends?
As beforehand talked about, Jobs apparently beloved working within the apple orchards a lot that he was impressed to call his and Steve Wozniak’s fledgling laptop firm “Apple.” That story is seemingly true, as co-founder Wozniak backs it up, saying Jobs got here again from a weekend on the farm, presumably this farm.
Oh, there may be one different little occasion that connects Jobs to the previous commune, even when he didn’t acknowledge the connection till a number of years later, after he had left Apple.
You see, when Jobs wasn’t on the farm, he was communing together with his accomplice, Chrisann Brennan, who later lived on the property. Their daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, was born there in 1978, though Jobs was not current on the time of her beginning.
In her 2018 memoir, “Small Fry,” Brennan-Jobs mentions the commune briefly however fondly. She reportedly mentioned her beginning befell on a farm and that she was named in a subject. Nonetheless, the property itemizing doesn’t point out the beginning.
Jobs denied paternity of Lisa for a number of years, resulting in a authorized case and a number of other media experiences. Lisa and Steve Jobs finally reconciled, and he acknowledged his paternity.