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diane: my husbd john a i live here in healdsburg. john manages our family dairy farm and vineyard, and i run our faly winbusinessanother winemakewith a vt. jo: we're agricuure-basecommunit 're partf sono county. we're abt an hou hour ana ha north of safrancisc our onomy rely, real is primary an agrultural urism ar--wine tting vineyard hospitaty. parentstartethis farin the teifties. mom wou ke that e had torack me do the fir day of kinderrten becse i was holdintools for my dad fixi fences.a ha! diane: he boces out bed evermorning excitedo go down to e farm. loves i that's very goothing, but i dot ink i cod do it. i ink atome int, i woulprobablyay, "enoh." jo: this h been myhole

li, livi on th farm. e nch itse is 360 res. weave 40 aeslantedn pinot noir and chardonnay grape vis, and tn the re is e farm bldings a organic paste for our dairanimals. diane: aicultures not ea. anal agricture is en hard. it's a4/7 thg... diane:nd at tis, it cabe

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came unstling beuse itad happed two yrs in a row, th with mo fires, d, viously,ur fire st year 2020as vy close to us. john: there was different levels of stress and anxiety as these res evold over t last fe yes. the waldridge fire s terally rning onhe operty bind our nch. that timof the yr--in aust, septber, octer--is whene have a of our livestk here othis prorty. all e grasseare drie and were feedi everydyere. we hav600 cowso milk tce a day, anoer 800 amals, th unger anals, thaneed to d. i hadany of mfriends and ers call me and text me and say, "jo, you ne help moving your animals?" there would be nowhere to go with that

ny animals, ev if we cld move em. it st was iossible. diane:s a farm, your fst inination to prott your anims, protectour emplees, proct your buildingor facily, your la. john: with t mandato acuationwe actually become an isld, so wee suppos t gone. erything' blockad. our bgest challengwas gettg things inwe have deliries, you knowevery daof the wk. it was ke fish imming upream. wee fighti a situatn that'sompletel opsite of what eryone el isoing. wh you're the mile of itit's almt like you' on autolot. diane: ias on thpatio, and i was watcng east de road, whh is, obously, et of --'re on wt side rd re; it'sn the otr side o

the vall floor--d there,t was st full cars, a i pt thiing, "ohthere mu be aaccidentr somethg. why e there many ca?" and i rned arod and sa th huge ple of smo and fles behinus and rlized althose cars were oking at usthey werlooking our house.he stresof the smoke everywre and tn not eing thsun and the fire so closand the ise, it' kindf overwhming. john: anso thetress fome i thk it manested itlf ter r me. mae it's pt of mdna or jt part owhat do as a rmer becse you just ighs] ane: it'hard at e end, d so manof our neibors haveost souch, andhen it becomevery sadecause metime then,e'd lose

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res and epare foan evenal fire r about years untione finay hit. [rumbling] ma back upyou guysjust pued my engines ck hard. grt: i w and sti am a wildli biologi. i'm a consvationis i taugh rery and wdlife, si ew enoh about biology d the fore ecosyst to know en we mod in herthat a fi had notit here about 60 yea, and was probly ly a matr of timbefore i did, si t activen the forestr--notreventn as ch as prarednessommunity doze and dozs of us ving in the hls on the spreadut homeeads g togetr and crted a re-proteion pl. a hundd years climate ange, loing, ando forest magement a droughtnd then a two-we heatwave,ou ow, itas boundo hit us soor or later, i knewnoh to be really sred.

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grandmother went to, so, like, then covid kind of took away our community and our ability to gather, and en the fire took our community and just sttered us allver the unty, alover the ste, and some ha left the ste becae of it , all of maslos needs re gone 24 hourswe lost r home, e cleaair, wat, sense mmunity,eighborssense of ple, you kw, theonnectio to theand and e beauty and e hundre of frt treeand erry tre and wilife and akes, anwalking here an just seeg all thdead rds and er and skes and charred trees, it was a bit of a gut-wrenching trip followed by 9 months of continual cleanup and reliving the losses. you kick arnd andind an o charretrinket minding

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i don'know who land its. i haveo idea. 's not me. i'm just livg on it.y grdpa alwa said th to me. "ts is my rs. it'sust here f us.t's nobody's." h us to say at to us"it's nobody's." it's the cows, the sheep, all these little creatures running around. i think it's their land. that's what i think. [ratchet clicking] leond: sometes iet up, ke, abou4:00, stt the

truck, mbe havanother cup of coffee. then you take off go down to the watering point. n't be ly. got tbe up beforehe sun. ll, this ple is theife poin it's thlife poi of our commity's vestock.t's not only for our community. there's people that come out, like abou30, 40 mes all rectionsand i fe for the peoplehat liveay out therby the cyon. for whole rod trip, ey, theyo, like, abt 60 mil just toaul ter to tir livtock. th have ks out there.hey have grandkids outhere th herd sheeand lo afterhe cate anall thatand they d't ha no runng water, no electricity. they have to haul water. it's hard to see them struggle.

in my days, we used to go to earth dams to load up water in wagons puld by mul or horses. is is whe water collts. you n tell wre it si with althese drnage from ltle, lite valleyor little gorges. from way out there, they come and sit here. it ud to be full. maybelle: the last time we had water was back, oh, about 5, 4 ars o, just izzle, aew drops, you know. you get all happy getting little drops of raincall ally deceased faly and s, "help !" but still rain.

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wh we wereids. theummer wasn overly t. you dn't have tse torreial rain on a farm, you know, the weather, it predicts everything for you. ma we're cstantly battng the weher. it'either t wet oroo dry, too wa or too cold. were sory and w wa rain, a now it n't qu raining, so thiis what 'rdealing th, rkin ound the windowshat we have to ow the fd for ou cows name randy rcker, an i'm third-geration fmer from logville, wconsinwe have abo 300 people in m

ttle comnity her [ctle lowi] my paren are 81 d 82 yea ol they fa every d. they startheir moing at 30. my mom loveto mix fd, and s drives in e tracto and she alwaysikes worng with e ws becauseshe said"cows n't talkack to y." it's truly family rm, and metimes really wder. therhas to ba betteray of li outhere sepla that you n't havehese proems that y strugglwith allhe ti.

[cattle wing] statz: my name is brenda statz. well, my farming was my main thg. it stl is a l of my life, t i do wk full-t off my farm, ao, so i pbably mied here 30-ps years milked ithis barn ani milkedor my dabefore at. i wa like, 1when i started lking co at his ba, so ie milked cowa longime, so- [ctle lowi] ansome of them, ye, you t spial cowsyou get ts, and somef themyou're jt like o. i d't wannothing too with h," and y wait fohe to go onhe truckyou know to selthem offbut fothe st part, mean, fming is- go girl.

keep wahing. it a goodife. it s a good life. i e you,armen. ha ha ha! leon a i, we m actual, in reeburg at bowlg alley. ias not a pers who wenout muchand i went o with myister to watch r bowl, d that'shen we met, d he hadone to scho with myister,ho shs, lik 3 yea older tn , and weust stard dating d we bh camerom farm backounds,nd we bo co from bifamiliesso ev our wedng was b. we did everytng togetr. from e timeou got uin the mning till t time yowent to d, you rked togher. thas just the way rming ishe d his ches. i dimy chore we neveracationemuch. if we did, was a wkend. on a ar, we'd go someere,ut it real wasn't r away because he said,can't gooo far." leon wou say, "you know,an't gooo

far b far enoh that ey can'tl us bacto do chores tight." iwas just more mories oft than y thk. you kw, y alws thought of that time, it was just a lot of work, but then when you look back now, you kn, it was probably some of the better times becau we spent much ti togher then anjust worng, milkg cows anraising ur famil that what fa life is [cattle lowing] roker: i c remembemy mom always h a littlbook f you ow, ery yearhat i wa school,nd it alys said on tre, you ow, "whawould yolike tbe?" andt always id, li, "firem liceman, docr," you ow and u were sposed toheck what youanted, a then the was a ank lineand thenhe uld alys wte in, "fmer," ani just ft that my wholeife was nd of, like, id out bore me,