Watch now (3 mins) | Coming soon: "You Just Can't See Them From the Road" is a film about the vanishing ranches of the American West, by Keely Brazil Covello and Michaela Brazil Gillies.
Very interested to watch! I love how you are giving family ranchers and farmers a voice. Too often people California don’t understand that corporate farms and investor pools are not the same as farmers. Even conservative Californians don’t always get this. These companies have caused the water table to drop, and have sold off their own water rights to cities and continue pumping water, and trying to grow in ground meant for grazing not trees. This forces family farmers and ranchers to have to compromise their values to keep their land and try to steward it the right way. It’s a really nuanced situation
Very interested to watch! I love how you are giving family ranchers and farmers a voice. Too often people California don’t understand that corporate farms and investor pools are not the same as farmers. Even conservative Californians don’t always get this. These companies have caused the water table to drop, and have sold off their own water rights to cities and continue pumping water, and trying to grow in ground meant for grazing not trees. This forces family farmers and ranchers to have to compromise their values to keep their land and try to steward it the right way. It’s a really nuanced situation