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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: Financial Recovery 101 for Disasters
No one wants to think that disaster will happen to them, but with increasingly devastating wildfires, floods and other symptoms of climate change, the time
Workshop: Is the Whole Farm Revenue Protection Program or Micro Farm Program right for your farm?
Understanding what crop insurance is right for your farm is confusing but critical. Join Farmer Campus along with Kitchen Table Advisors for this recorded co-hosted
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
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