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Community rallies to support Fullness Farm after fire

42 minutes 1 second ago Sunday, October 05 2025 Oct 5, 2025 October 05, 2025 10:41 PM October 05, 2025 in News
Source: WBRZ

BATON ROUGE - Fullness Farm is still recovering after an electrical fire destroyed equipment. Grant Guidroz owns and manages Fullness Farm with his wife.

The couple regularly vendors every Saturday at the Red Stick Farmers Market in downtown Baton Rouge.

"We woke up, we were right inside that window, the flames were maybe a hundred feet tall," Guidroz said.

He and his wife said they woke up to their shed full of equipment used to harvest their goods on fire.

"The tractor was a part of the main thing and the farm truck, our seed cache, our seed bank, honey that had just been bottled, and then just everything that was in our laundry room and our garage," he said.

The St. George Fire Department believes the cause of the fire was a smoker plugged into an outlet with an extension cord. 

Since then, Guidroz says, family, friends, and the farming community have been helping them recover from the devastation.

 "You know that you're loved when you really go through something, you really experience just how much everybody loves and supports you, and you know, doesn't want you to quit doing what you're doing, and really, really cares for you. So that's what's meant by the world," he said. 

The Red Sticks Farmers Market has a farmer relief fund on their website to help the family recoup. Guidroz says he isn't letting the fire set him back. 

"Within about a month or so, we'll make a lot of big moves, and so, yeah, I think things are moving pretty quickly, and just how the community and church and everybody's really helped us out has been why we're able to do that," he said.

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