“We’re all grieving and heartbroken because of this.” “The loss of the crops is a very tangible way to measure the flood, but the loss of the work is hard to measure,” said Barritt, one of five co-owners of Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm in Burlington, Vermont. He still hopes to replant short-season crops like mustard greens, spinach, bok choy and kale Within a few hours last week, those hopes were washed away when flood waters inundated the small farm, destroying a harvest with a value he estimated at $250,000. Well before it was warm enough to plant seedlings in the ground, farmer Micah Barritt began nursing crops like watermelon, eggplant and tomatoes - eventually transplanting them from his greenhouse into rich Vermont soil, hoping for a bountiful fall harvest. Melanie Guild, development director of Intervale Community Farm, holds a bouquet of mud covered flowers, part of crop destroyed when flood waters of the Winooski River overflowed into the 360 acre farm, Monday, July 17, 2023, in Burlington, Vt.
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