Andie Traphagan, Lassen County
Traphagan barely got her photo in. Her husband and son, both farmers and contract firefighters, had been fighting the massive North Complex Fire for 63 days and she was busy running supplies to them. They managed to get their wheat harvest done. “I have an obsession with hands,” Traphagan said. “It’s amazing to watch
them in moments of work, service and, in this instance, unity. We’re starting what should be the first on-farm flour mill. This picture is the beginning of our efforts to feed people. Their hands are full of seed that we hope to make into flour.”
Kathy Brimmer, Yuba County Brimmer said they have phenomenal sunsets on their hillside cattle ranch near Beale Air Force Base. She and her husband, John, take their quads out late afternoons to check on the cows. Tina, a Black Angus, is a “really mellow, social girl” who always comes by to visit. “We were out checking the cattle that day. The sun was setting, the grass was nice and green. It just looked pretty and she was as happy as a clam,” Brimmer said.
Henry Schulte, Santa Barbara County Schulte has been farming avocados and managing a ranch for 47 years. He passes the Solvang Farmer Pumpkin Patch nearly every day and said he’s impressed how the owner changes it each year. “He’ll take a blank field. All year long, it’s flat and there’s nothing in it. Come June, he plants the corn and then, almost in weeks, it gets waist high and he turns that into a maze,” Schulte said. “Then he grows pumpkins nearby. It’s an amazing transformation to turn this thing into a massive pumpkin farm.”
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