A Sad day

[tommytonk]

Just looked at their web site feel bad for them.

http://www.harmonyvalleyfarm.blogspot.com/

[remy]

That is awful!
Remy

[Wi-sunflower]

Harmony Valley is a fellow seller at the Madison Farmers market. They have a large following there and a huge CSA.

While they are on the opposite side of the state from me, much of Wisconsin has had awful weather this year.

We didn't get the heavy rain from that storm but we did get some other storms this year that while bad didn't produce the problems for us that Harmony is seeing. It's partly because they are in a more hilly area while we are just a bit rolling.

Actually they may have gotten hit again last Friday as more storms went thru both areas. For me, we had 50-75 MPH winds that preceeded the storms here. We had just finished tagging all the tomato varieties for the field day and quite a few were ripped off. i'll have to go thru things the next few days. Fortunately there wasn't much other damage. The greenhouse could have taken flight or shredded.

While Harmony is somewhat of a competitor at the market (not much as we have diferent niches) I wouldn't wish any of the things that have been happening on a fellow farmer that works hard for what they get.

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Milwaukee is still fighting FEMA's rulling that there wasn't enough "damage" from the 6-8 inches of rain they got last month. Some homes totally lost their foundations and had to be torn down as "unlivable", yet because the sewage water didn't get to the first floor, FEMA won't help. if our area didn't have basements, the flooding WOULD have been in the first floors. Crazy rules.

Carol

[tommytonk]

Thanks for the update Carol


tommy

Originally Posted by Wi-sunflower

Harmony Valley is a fellow seller at the Madison Farmers market. They have a large following there and a huge CSA.

While they are on the opposite side of the state from me, much of Wisconsin has had awful weather this year.

We didn't get the heavy rain from that storm but we did get some other storms this year that while bad didn't produce the problems for us that Harmony is seeing. It's partly because they are in a more hilly area while we are just a bit rolling.

Actually they may have gotten hit again last Friday as more storms went thru both areas. For me, we had 50-75 MPH winds that preceeded the storms here. We had just finished tagging all the tomato varieties for the field day and quite a few were ripped off. i'll have to go thru things the next few days. Fortunately there wasn't much other damage. The greenhouse could have taken flight or shredded.

While Harmony is somewhat of a competitor at the market (not much as we have diferent niches) I wouldn't wish any of the things that have been happening on a fellow farmer that works hard for what they get.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Milwaukee is still fighting FEMA's rulling that there wasn't enough "damage" from the 6-8 inches of rain they got last month. Some homes totally lost their foundations and had to be torn down as "unlivable", yet because the sewage water didn't get to the first floor, FEMA won't help. if our area didn't have basements, the flooding WOULD have been in the first floors. Crazy rules.

Carol

[Stepheninky]

I hope they had crop insurance. We had floods here earlier in the year and there was a lot of damage fortunately quit a few of the local farms had insurance. So here it mainly hurt the smaller farmers and backyard farmers. One of my friends actually ended up buying a new house because the damage was so bad that it would have cost more to repair it.

[Wi-sunflower]

I doubt it as "crop insurance" is available almost exclusivly for the large acreage crops like corn, soy and wheat. "Food" isn't considered a crop in the eyes of those companies.

Even govt programs usually don't include us vegies farmers unless the disaster is very widespread. like regionwide, not just statewide.

Carol