“It was thought to be prohibitively expensive to preserve,” Darling says. When they decided on a complete renovation they turned to David Darling of San Francisco’s Aidlin Darling Design, who called the project internally controversial. Still, the brothers embraced the shabby, neo-Spanish colonial and its vaguely Moorish features, playing host to gatherings of grown-on-site produce and stand-in beer while they awaited their first harvests. The farm’s architectural centerpiece, a 160-year-old homestead built in the 1850s and refaced in 1915, was uninhabitable when the Marianis assumed ownership. Applying their passion for farming and a bit of knowledge gleaned from stints on South African and European vineyards, the brothers purchased the property in 2007, took a year to prepare the ground, and started planting vines.īeauty in imperfection: Many of the original finishes and details were preserved during the restoration. Mariani and his brother, Andrew, fourth-generation farmers “enamored with agrarian California,” eschewed the family walnut business and turned their sights to a rundown turkey farm they believed had potential. “But then as you approach the runway you’re dreading when your cellphone kicks back into reception and you get all the messages that will tell your fate.” “You’re just wishing the plane would go faster so you can finally get on the ground and see what’s going on,” he says. Helpless and unoccupied, those six hours were some of the longest of Mariani’s life. By their end, the October 2017 fires would claim 44 lives and nearly 9,000 structures-the most destructive in history until this year’s Camp Fire blaze began wreaking havoc in Feather River Canyon. Much of Northern California had already burned. With the fire at Scribe's doorstep, an off-duty fire truck arrived and saved the property from certain demolition.
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