Name: The Poop Fairies by MaliaAscuaga
Duration: 59 s
Description: The Tale of the Poop Fairies is a well-loved story in my family. The Poop Fairies are hometown heroes that save little kids sneakers one day at a time. Audio story by Malia Ascuaga

Gathering freshly laid eggs from the coop to frying it sunny side-up. Soundscape by Malia Ascuaga.

Farm to Table

The Tale of the Poop Fairies is a well-loved story in my family. The Poop Fairies are hometown heroes that save little kids sneakers one day at a time. Audio story by Malia Ascuaga

The Poop Fairies

Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Jack’s Valley Ranch is home to many historical rarities within the cross-path of the Pony Express Trail and the Mormon Emigrant Trail. 

Dating back to the 1820s, the ranch, a ten minute drive from Genoa, Nevada, reveals a network of historic skid trails and flumes associated with Comstock era logging. 

Following Jack’s Valley Road, evidence has been found that the Ranch was previously inhabited by Washoe Indigenous tribes and their ancestors.

Historic resources associated with Jack’s Valley Ranch include:  two barns built by Chinese immigrants from Virginia City in the 1860s, a Mormon cemetery containing a number of graves associated with the valley’s pioneer families, the founder of Gardnerville, Paiute servants, including others who couldn’t afford a gravestone.

 A sheepherders’s camp with a small wooden cabin and stone dugout are located near the mountain spring in the mouth of Water Canyon, on the ranch’s western perimeter, and a large bedrock mortar. There, members of the Washoe tribes would grind pine nuts, sage, and medicinals into the hollows of the rock, which have left indents of their knees and pestles behind.

Stephen Ascuaga, a second-generation native Basque-Nevadan, grew up on Jack’s Valley Ranch and continues to help run the ranch to this day. 
Looking back, Ascuaga shares, “it’s a very very special place. As a kid, I don’t think I fully appreciated how unique it was being raised in a more ranch related environment, but it was a great place to grow up,” he said. 

The ranch not only has made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Nevada history, but has been important to the people living in the surrounding areas as it remains a preserved piece of land. 

In 2016,  Jack’s Valley Ranch was put under a conservation easement which guarantees the ranch will forever remain operational.

A short mini doc by Malia Ascuaga

Jack's Valley Ranch: " A very, very special place" ft. Stephen Ascuaga

Full 2 hour set from the Warehouse Rave @ Station 9 in Reno, NV put on by SuprisePartyPresents and Unity Events.
1st hour-ZADDYb
2nd hour - Dom Morelli

The Poop Fairies

MaliaAscuaga

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