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Fire is Family: A Conversation with the Yurok Tribe’s Cultural Fire Management Council
“We send up our prayers with smoke, and they are answered by fire,” shares Margo Robbins, quoting a gentleman from her neighboring tribe. It’s a radical concept, but the view of fire as a natural, welcome and sacred part of living on land in California is core to the Yurok tribe, and many other Native tribes in the United States who co-existed with fire for millenia.
New Chapter for Wildfire Program!
We’re happy to announce that Farmer Campus, along with our organizational partners CAFF, received funding to continue our Farming through Wildfire Season program! Thank you for your support in garnering those resources. We’re thrilled to offer viable, actionable solutions for addressing the challenges of farming in wildfire country.
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Workshop and Resources: Financial Prep for Disaster 101
Are you financially prepared for a disaster? The threat of wide-sweeping catastrophic disasters including wildfires, drought, extreme temperature swings, floods, and pandemics has compounded in
Find us @ EcoFarm! Farming through Wildfire Season: A Collective (and Practical) Conversation
EcoFarm Conference | Asilomar, CA Session B: January 19th at 10:30am-12:00pm Join Farmer Campus for a (gasp!) in-person workshop at EcoFarm in January 2023! The
Upcoming Workshop: Financial Recovery after Disaster 101 Dec 14th
Join Farmer Campus on Dec 14th 2022 for a live online workshop on Financial Recovery After Disaster Please RSVP and find details here. And don’t miss
Wildfire Recovery: The Nuts and Bolts of Resilience with TurkeyTail Farm
Farmers Cheetah Tchudi and Samantha Zangrilli run TurkeyTail Farm in Yankee Hill, California. This is a diversified farm with vegetables, mushrooms, flowers, livestock, and other value-added products.
Wildfire Response: Evacuating with TurkeyTail Farm
Farmers Cheetah and Samantha run TurkeyTail Farm in Yankee Hill, California, a diversified farm with vegetables, mushrooms, flowers, livestock, and other value-added products. During the Camp Fire
Go Kits and Emergency Plans: Preparing for Wildfire with Bee-well Farms
Getting your farm and crew prepared for a disaster like a wildfire can feel overwhelming – but having a plan and Go-Bags ahead of time