While many families sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, farmers in California’s Potter Valley were facing the possible end of generations-old livelihoods. PG&E has cut water deliveries to historic farms and is now pushing to make those cuts permanent—reducing flows to levels ranchers say would kill crops, livestock, and entire communities. This fight isn’t just about dams or fish. It’s about water control, rural survival, food security, and whether family farms can exist when utilities and state agencies decide who gets to live off the land.
DEAD FARMS | This Water Shut Off Is a Controlled Demolition of Rural America
