wildfire resilience

Farming through Wildfire Season: The Key role of Farmers in Building Wildfire Resilience

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By Katie Brimm and Natalia Pinzón Originally written for and published by the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network Wildfire becomes more a part of agriculturalists’ (farmers, ranchers, orchardists, grazers etc) lives across the world every day. Climate change, combined with years of fire suppression policies, have brought an unsettlingly new normal of increasingly devastating wildfires. …

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Wildfire Brings Farm into Deeper Relationship with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

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As a land-based organization interested in social change, a deeper relationship with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band has shown Pie Ranch new pathways for wildfire resilience.  Jered Lawson takes my call from their goat barn at Pie Ranch, an educational farm on a pie-slice-shaped piece of land near Pescadero California. Throughout our interview, baby goats …

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Lessons in Fire: Wildfire Exposes New Pathways for Recovery

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with Jered Lawson, Pie Ranch Like many farmers and ranchers, the folks at Pie Ranch figured a wildfire disaster of any magnitude was something that happened elsewhere and never to them, “Frankly, we were caught off guard,” says co-founder Jered Lawson. In 2020, the CZU Lightning Complex fire overtook the educational farm nestled in a pie-shaped …

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Wildfire Response: Evacuating with TurkeyTail Farm

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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 in Butte County, they were evacuated for 28 days and lost everything but their livestock to severe fire damage – including their home. In this two-part blog series, the farmers …

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Workshop: Intro to On-Farm Wildfire Preparedness with BeeWell Farms

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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, get your evacuation plan made and practice your response plan ahead of fire season! Check out this recording of our live workshop from May 18th, featuring guest farmer educators Austin …

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Farming Through Wildfire Season Program Launch

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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 to our collaborators for your support in garnering those resources. We’re thrilled to offer viable, actionable solutions for addressing the challenges of farming in wildfire country. In Phase II of …

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Fire is Family: A Conversation with the Yurok Tribe’s Cultural Fire Management Council

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“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 …

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Upcoming Workshop: Community Wildfire Resilience

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Feb 28th, 2:30pm PST | Small Farms Conference The unpredictability and sheer magnitude of fires can leave farmers and ranchers feeling threatened and helpless. The size, longevity and intensity of wildfires is rapidly increasing in the Western region, with record breaking fire seasons every year. This Interactive Group Forum brings the audience together to share …

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