Around the state, and especially in hard-hit central and northern Vermont, farmers are again assessing their losses and trying to figure out how to adapt and…
Around the state, and especially in hard-hit central and northern Vermont , farmers are again assessing their losses and trying to figure out how to adapt and make it through the season and next yearExactly one year to the date of last year's severe flooding in Vermont , Joe's Brook Farm was flooded again by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl.
Around the state, and especially in hard-hit central and northern Vermont, farmers are again assessing their losses and trying to figure out how to adapt and make it through the season and next year."We are going to have significant damage," said Vermont Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts."You're going to have areas that have been hit twice maybe three times in the last year.
When the state agriculture secretary visited Sparrow Arc Farm, a potato farm on the Connecticut River in Guildhall last weekend, farmer Matthew Linehan had to take him out in a canoe to see the fields still inundated by floodwaters days after the storm. The water has receded and the damage is worse than last year. Nineteen of the farm's 52 acres were flooded, pushing the total loss to 36%, Linehan said.
A friend started a GoFundMe page to help the couple continue to pay their 10 employees through the end of August, including three men from Jamaica who are on seasonal work visas. One of the men lost the roof off his house and another had widespread damage to his own farm back home during Hurricane Beryl — the same storm — the week before, Skovsted said."It's especially hard for those guys because they were counting on the salary to make repairs to their homes," she said.
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