[Market-farming] Hurricane Dean report & thanks
Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm
rootsfarm at marpin.dm
Fri Aug 24 14:08:14 EDT 2007
Thank you all for your prayers and good wishes.
Electricity & email on island finally restored. Water & telephone
still to come. Wondering how my partner will get produce washed for
market tomorrow but at least there are a few things he can bring to
market: mostly hot peppers and downed plantain. He reports that the
storm took a few fruit trees and lots of branches, all the bananas &
plantains (which should shoot again), and did a major edit on the
ripening avocado crop. Asian greens, cucumbers, and lettuce crops wiped
out; long beans and roots might recover; eggplants and sweet, hot, &
seasoning peppers looking not too bad. Winds ripped up our netting
which kept the birds off the peppers, but truck is running despite
cushioning a tree's fall. So for us, set-back is mostly 3 months of
income and repair/replacement expenses, not a multi-year recovery.
Banana and plantain farmers didn't fare so well and this foretells
tougher times ahead for an already poor island for which bananas are the
major source of foreign exchange and domestic currency circulation.
Best wishes to all,
Karen
Cozy in MA but wishing to be helping with Dominican clean-up/restoration
--
Karen Sutherland
Roots Farm
Organic Produce
Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs
Cockrane, Dominica
767-449-3038
rootsfarm at marpin.dm <mailto:rootsfarm at marpin.dm>
rootsfarm at protoscape.com <mailto:rootsfarm at protoscape.com>
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