Little Wing Farm, which supplied West Marin restaurants with coturnix quail eggs and produce grown in Tomales, is shutting down after a fire gutted a barn at the small operation on March 20. Molly Myerson, who started the farm four years ago, was not present when the old wooden and tin-roofed structure caught fire, but firefighters told her the fire was “fully developed” by the time personnel arrived. Inside the barn, 240 eggs had lain in an incubator, set to hatch that day, along with 140 younger birds about to start laying eggs. They did not burn to death, but almost all died of smoke inhalation. “Maybe four [newborn chicks] survived and will live, miraculously,” said Ms. Myerson, who also lost rakes, shovels, weedwhackers, a saw, new drills, seeds, bird feed and paper records. (The fire did not kill the 200 quail that were in an outdoor coop.) Ms. Myerson said her landlords have given her 60 days to evacuate. Now she will harvest what crops she can and sell seedlings from her greenhouse to try to recoup some losses. About her future, she is uncertain. “It just feels impossible at this moment to start from scratch,” she said. “I don’t have the financial resources or the physical or emotional capacity. It was more than a business. It was an extremely deep connection with a place and the land and animals…That’s the hardest part: the loss of that relationship.” Ms. Myerson, a native New Yorker, studied permaculture in Bolinas and cofounded a food co-op in Inverness with farmer Arron Wilder and the co-owners of Wild West Ferments, Maggie Levinger and Luke Regalbuto. She lived in West Marin for eight years before moving to Petaluma in 2015. Much of her produce—tomatoes, strawberries, zucchini, carrots, greens, radishes, Padron peppers and much more—sold to West Marin restaurants and markets like Saltwater, Sir and Star, Osteria Stellina and the Inverness Park Market. She also sold quail eggs to the Sausalito restaurant Sushi Ran and State Bird Provisions in San Francisco, the latter of which she said purchased 70 dozen a week. (She said the restaurant will no longer serve quail egg on the menu, as she was its sole supplier.) On Tuesday, a benefit for Ms. Myerson at Saltwater featured pizza and oysters and raised $2,500. Ms. Myerson, in New York for a few days to visit her parents, called in; over a crackling phone connection, she described the devastation of losing her farm and also how moved she has been by the outpouring of support from friends and community. Anyone interested in helping Ms. Myerson can contact her at [email protected]. A crowdfunding campaign through the website YouCaring has raised over $7,000. To donate, visit youcaring.com/molly-myerson-546085.