US (VT): Growers persevere through cold, wet spring
“If you’re going to be a farmer, you gotta be resilient,” said Howard Prussack of High Meadows Farm in Westminster. “It’s what separates the phonies from the real ones.”
Prussack said he sells plants from his greenhouses to other farmers around the state, but some farmers are having difficulty paying for the plants due to fuel costs and wind damage repair.
Prussack said he’s gotten multiple emails from growers who lost various crops due to gusts of wind that terrorized hoop houses. During a recent storm, high winds at High Meadows cut power in the greenhouses, which threatened the growth of vulnerable plants whose fruit would one day pay the bills.
Read more at the Rutland Herald (Kate Barcellos)