Everybody knows the saying about making lemonade when life gives you lemons. Here in Sonoma County, when local wildfire mitigation efforts give you felled trees, you might as well make firewood.
This is the concept behind the Good Fire Project, a nascent nonprofit created by Healdsburg resident Scott Keneally.
The effort repurposes trees removed by fire crews into boxes of packaged firewood, turning risk into resource. As Keneally tells it, every box of Good Fire supports community safety and forest health. He says the wood is also a symbol of local resilience, a sustainable by-product of fire mitigation in the region…