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CAL FIRE Wildland Fire Retardant FAQ

CAL FIRE Wildland Fire Retardant FAQ

FAQs about wildland fire retardant from CAL FIRE

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Guía didáctica de alternativas al uso del fuego en prácticas agropecuarias

Guía didáctica de alternativas al uso del fuego en prácticas agropecuarias

Esta guía didáctica de alternativas al uso del fuego en actividades agropecuarias, generada con el apoyo del Programa Nacional para la Gestión Ambientalmente Adecuada de Sustancias Químicas en su Ciclo […]

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Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide

Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide

This Guide includes specific recommendations for how to retrofit existing components of a home to withstand wildfire. The illustrations throughout the Guide are intended to show best practices for reducing […]

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Webinar: Small Farms Disaster Insurance Part 1

Webinar: Small Farms Disaster Insurance Part 1

From Farmer Campus, this webinar provides an overview of insurance for small farms, including how insurance works and what to buy.

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Fire Safe Council Handbook

Fire Safe Council Handbook

A Fire Safe Council is a coalition of public and private sector organizations that share a common, vested interest in wildfire prevention and loss mitigation.

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Wildfire Recovery: The Nuts And Bolts Of Resilience With TurkeyTail Farm

Wildfire Recovery: The Nuts And Bolts Of Resilience With TurkeyTail Farm

Farmers Cheetah and Samantha run TurkeyTail Farm in Yankee Hill, California. During the Camp Fire in Butte County, they were evacuated for 28 days and lost everything but their livestock to severe […]

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Wildfire Response: Evacuating With TurkeyTail Farm

Wildfire Response: Evacuating With TurkeyTail Farm

Farmers Cheetah and Samantha run TurkeyTail Farm in Yankee Hill, California. During the Camp Fire in Butte County, they were evacuated for 28 days and lost everything but their livestock to severe […]

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Plan de Preparación para Desastres

Plan de Preparación para Desastres

Tenga a la mano información actualizada de su rancho como dirección, número de empleados, contactos de emergencia, ubicación de animales y kits de emergencia.

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Fighting farmland and rangeland wildfires

Fighting farmland and rangeland wildfires

A reference for employer’s engaged in Oregon OSHA’s Agriculture Activities.

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Wildfire Preparedness in Agriculture

Wildfire Preparedness in Agriculture

This course is designed to prepare farmers, ranchers and rural residents for wildfires. Over the course of seven modules, you will learn how to create an emergency farm plan for […]

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Go Kits And Emergency Plans: Preparing For Wildfire With Bee-Well Farms

Go Kits And Emergency Plans: Preparing For Wildfire With Bee-Well Farms

For this story, we travel to Glen Ellen, California, to hear from the farmers at Bee-Well Farms who were heavily impacted by the 2017 Nun’s wildfire. Having recovered, they now […]

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Fighting Fire with Fire: Policy Options to Increase the Use of Prescribed Fire on National Forests

Fighting Fire with Fire: Policy Options to Increase the Use of Prescribed Fire on National Forests

From the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC), this report provides an overview of the current science and need for prescribed fire, describes barriers to the use of prescribed fire […]

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California’s Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire

California’s Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire

The purpose of this Strategic Plan is to guide the expansion of beneficial fire across the state through 2025, as set forth in California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan.

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Pathways to Prescribed Fire Report March 2022

Pathways to Prescribed Fire Report March 2022

From the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC), three case studies highlighting opportunities for community based nonprofits to build cooperative burning capacity.

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Talking Integrated Pest Management at Blossom Farms

Talking Integrated Pest Management at Blossom Farms

The Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) hosted our fourth Biologically Integrated Orchard System (BIOS) field day, titled “Effective IPM Strategies for Major Walnut Pests,” at Blossom Farms on July […]

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Year End Donations to CAFF

Year End Donations to CAFF

Your tax-deductible donation to Community Alliance with Family Farmers helps us build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities […]

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Maneuvering Through Wildfire Evacuations – for Small Farmers

Maneuvering Through Wildfire Evacuations – for Small Farmers

Farmers face increasing fire frequency, size and severity due to several factors, including climate change, the spread of invasive grasses and by changing farming practices. If you live and farm […]

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CAFF Partners w/ CA Assoc. of Food Banks & Fresh Approach on New Local Food Purchasing Program

CAFF Partners w/ CA Assoc. of Food Banks & Fresh Approach on New Local Food Purchasing Program

This week, the United States Department of Food and Agriculture announced California’s Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement (LFPA) at the Yolo Food Bank – a member of the California […]

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Disaster Response

Disaster Response

DISASTER RESPONSE Preparation is important, but when disaster strikes, you’ll need to spring into action. These resources are for the moment wildfire makes it to your farm, ranch or community. […]

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Member Spotlight: Brisa Ranch

Member Spotlight: Brisa Ranch

Summer is at its peak and all the farmers are working hard to harvest all the delicious veggies from their fields, like the  three amazing farmers at Brisa Ranch. We […]

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BIOS Field Day at Unruh Farms

BIOS Field Day at Unruh Farms

In continuing to promote the Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) project, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) held its third field day event hosted at Unruh Farms located in Princeton, […]

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Fenton Family Farm

Fenton Family Farm

Bio-diverse organic sustainable family farm with a fruits, nuts, vineyard and row crops established 1997

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5 Key Wildfire Resilience Practices

5 Key Wildfire Resilience Practices

It’s not always obvious that some of the ecological farming practices used frequently by farmers, also provide wildfire protection and recovery benefits. Check out the infographic below which was developed […]

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Luna’s Farm Podcast Episode (en Español)

Luna’s Farm Podcast Episode (en Español)

Dear listeners, click here to listen to our last episode of the season. We hope you enjoy this special episode in Spanish hosted by our podcast producer, Jaime Roque. In […]

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CAFF en Español

CAFF en Español

Bienvenido/as a nuestra nueva pagina, donde usted puede encontrar todos lo que CAFF tiene para ofrecer en español.  CONFERENCIA Conferencia Anual Sobre Pequeñas Granjas de California Este febrero, únase a […]

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The Future of Farm to School at Twin Rivers Unified School District

The Future of Farm to School at Twin Rivers Unified School District

This assessment outlines the farm to school program, summarizes procurement, menu and operational analysis, and highlights accomplishments and recommendations for increasing the impact of farm to school programs at TRUSDNS […]

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