>> okay, here we go, guys. go. >> heading into what the family calls fig canyon with a tidal wave of kids, we got a sense of the chaos of families that count their children in the teens and grandkids in the hundreds... >> come here, puppy. here, puppy. >> ...and what it's like to live wild and free in a desert where the soil is rich and the land is blessed with water. oh, my word. this is pretty cool. it wasn't always so comfortable. kenny said there was nothing here when he came with his parents in the 1960s. they spent the first seven years living by the river in a tent, with no money, no power, and no plumbing. how has this valley changed over the years? i mean, you've been here all your life. >> progress, i guess. orchards. it used to be, back in the day, before we got into pecan trees, it was potatoes, beans, corn.