the land as a way to prepare for the extremes such as fires, droughts, and more. In 2018, my family and I moved to Altadena into a home nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. After learning what it meant to live in a high fire risk zone, I began to imagine what would it look like if fire were to come towards us from those mountains.What kind of landscape might prevent the loss of our home. So, we began to landscape by harvesting water. We built mounds of strategically and thoughtfully layered log ...