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Local farmers sound off on Sandy
Area farmers feeling the effects of the hurricane.
Local farmers sound off on Sandy
Though the city seemed to be spared the worst of Sandy, our outlying burbs and farmland got plowed (and not in the good way). "The hurricane turned me into an unintentional hydroponic farmer," joked Ian Brendle of Green Meadow, whose Gap pastures took on water like a Swiss cheese ship. "I expect more of our root crops to split and crack due to an abundance of moisture."
Yesterday morning, Tom Culton picked as much as he could from the soggy ground of his Silver Spring farm, Culton Organics, also in Lancaster County. "It's very messy, numbing hands," he said. "I'll be wearing my harvesting gear and carrying a knife constantly from here on out."
In Chester County, Dean Carlson of Wyebrook Farm spent Sunday night worrying about his 15 just-born piglets. "We keep the pigs out on pasture, and I was scared they would drown," Carlson said. "There was so much water. We just kept bringing straw down to keep them dry." All piglets survived the storm, as did a calf born Monday. Carlson doesn't name his animals, but if he did, we've got a good recommendation you can probably guess.
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