Former hippy commune that inspired Steve Jobs to name Apple is on sale for $5 million

This for-sale farm was the apple of Steve Jobs’ eye.

The 388-acre property recently listed for $5 million and boasts an apple orchard that inspired a young Jobs. The folkloric listing in McMinnville, Oregon, spans five parcels of land, encompassing a main house, outbuildings and farmland. 

A countercultural community called the property home in the 1970s, and Jobs’ association with the group proved highly formative for the recent college dropout, The Oregonian reported. The commune, called All One Farm, was managed by future mining billionaire Robert Friedland.

Jobs would go on to credit his experiences within the community as teaching him about charismatic leadership, psychedelics and Zen Buddhism. Most importantly, the farm inspired his company’s name. 

The late tech founder told his biographer Walter Isaacson that a stroll in the farm’s large apple orchard inspired the name. 

“I was on one of my fruitarian diets. I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating,” Jobs told Isaacson. “Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’ Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book.”

Jobs’ high school girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan, also lived on the farm and in 1978 gave birth there to Jobs’ first daughter, Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs.

The $5 million property offers buyers a 5,200-square-foot main house with large decks, a three-bedroom guesthouse and several outbuildings.

The seller is Damon Gustafson, a real estate developer and investor. Gustafson remodeled the main house and the property’s outbuildings, as well as restored the apple orchard. The rehab took several years, according to listing agent Drew Staudt at Windermere Realty Group.

The land was in “complete and utter disrepair” when Gustafson purchased it, Staudt told The Post.

Gustafson’s projects included rehabbing and repainting a small red barn where, according to Staudt, historical accounts place Jobs as having slept and hung out during his days on the farm.

A larger barn — where All One Farm devotees once meditated and a “om” symbol remains chalked into the beams — now hosts a ballroom dance floor and amenities for catering parties. 

Staudt said the future of the farm is up to the next owner, with options ranging from reinvigorating the apple orchard to hosting corporate retreats.

How do you like them apples?