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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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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

Financial Recovery and Support After a Wildfire
Though David Cooper is an experienced Farm Manager, nothing prepared him what he had to face. At two in the morning on October 8th, 2017,

Workshop: Intro to On-Farm Wildfire Preparedness with BeeWell Farms
Overwhelmed thinking about how to face a future of intensifying wildfires? As we head into spring, there’s no better time to evaluate your on-farm risk,

Counting the Losses: Tallying the True Costs of Wildfire for Farmers
Being impacted by wildfire is terrifying, potentially deadly, and can be extremely costly. But for farmers and ranchers, there are so many layers to the

Ready on the Farm! A six minute bilingual animation series
Do you know what to do if a disaster occurs on your farm? Watch this short animation series to help you learn what steps to

Quick Intro to On-Farm Fire Preparedness
In this 7 minute overview, you will learn about basic concepts to get your farm prepared for wildfire season. This was produced for the Annual