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‘Substantial’ losses reported elsewhere, especially in north-central VT
By Guy Page
A longtime potato farm in Essex County lost 40% of its crop to the July 10-11 flooding.
“Three days after the flood you needed a canoe to reach potato fields in Guildhall,” the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets reported Sunday July 14 on its FB page.
This is the second straight year the Connecticut River has flooded their fields and destroyed their potatoes.
Sparrow Arc is the former Peaslee’s Vermont Potatoes farm, a third-generation family farm with a 90-year tradition in the NEK. In 2019 it was sold to Matthew Linehan from Maine, the Caledonian-Record reported in 2020.
Linehan came to Vermont after he started a potato farm in Unity, Maine. You can find their potatoes across the region including restaurants, stores & Vermont Foodbank.
Sparrow Arc is by no means alone in suffering catastrophic damage this year.
We don’t have hard figures yet but safe to say losses will be substantial again,” Agency Secretary Anson Tebbetts responded to a VDC inquiry today.
“We have some farmers that have been hit again – so twice in one year,” Tebbetts said. “We have some who have escaped damage…mainly those in the bottom four counties. But there could be some damage in those regions.
“We also have new farmers who got hit this time but not last time,” Tebbetts said.
He’s also worried about the flood losses to the wellbeing of the farmers themselves. “We need to keep our eye on stress and mental health,” he said, referring farmers to the state’s flood recovery page for this and other needs.
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did you ever notice how much of your food supply is being destroyed///
Irish potato famine 2.0? A bag of highly processed french fries is now nearly $5 for shrinking content – funny potato chips the about the same – 1/2 the bag is air. The organic ones will cost you more for even less content. The quantity and quality continues to decline as the prices rage higher for just about every food product. Yes, they are manufacturing food crisis and famine will spread in areas around the globe by design. Supply chains manipulated and cut off (shipping lanes matter!) If it’s not GMO, chemically enchanced, or lab grown, good luck finding food or beverages not designed to make you sick and eventually eliminate you.
And what makes it scarrier is the fact the major metropolitan areas are just 1 tank of gas or a Tesla charge away. Which way do you think they will head when they start to get hungry?
If someone is doing this on purpose…spreading cloud-seeding chemicals from a plane to make it pour during crop season…how can they live with themselves? Meanwhile, may God have mercy on them.
Sister Lucia’s Vision at Fatima, Portugal, July 13, 1917: “As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands once more, as she had done during the two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. (It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. Terrified and as if to plead for succour, we looked up at Our Lady, who said to us, so kindly and so sadly: You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.”