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  • From: Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm <rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Hurricane Dean report & thanks
  • Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:08:14 -0400

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
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Karen Sutherland

Roots Farm

Organic Produce

Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs

Cockrane, Dominica

767-449-3038

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