From all of us at Georgia Organics, we’d like to offer an enormous heartfelt THANK YOU to everybody who supported The Farmer Fund aid campaigns in 2024. Along with your help, we have been in a position to present $95,300 in aid to 31 farmers in Georgia, primarily to cowl damages to crops and infrastructure from the back-to-back storms that swept via our state final yr.
In August 2024, Tropical Storm Debby brought about widespread and extreme flooding in Georgia. Only a month later, Hurricane Helene made landfall in america as a Class 4 hurricane, leaving much more widespread harm throughout the state and our neighbors, together with North Carolina and Florida. After Helene, Georgia farmers suffered greater than $5.5 billion in damages, impacting lots of the small and natural farms Georgia Organics offers companies for. Brendan Gannon of Gannon Organics was affected by each storms and shared, “Tropical Storm Debby, we did not get that a lot wind, however we bought a ton of rain. And it flooded our fields and we misplaced an excellent portion of our crops. They simply sort of rotted within the floor, stayed moist for a very long time. So we misplaced perhaps like, 30 or 40% of our crops, perhaps extra from that.
“After which, you recognize over a month later we had Helene. And it was simply method windier than we anticipated. So often when there is a hurricane or tropical storm, I am going to take the plastic off our homes, the greenhouses and stuff. Nevertheless it was saying it wasn’t gonna be that unhealthy, however it sort of turned towards us because it approached Georgia and it tore aside two of our Caterpillar tunnels…every thing inside them died. All of our remaining crops bought wind harm fairly unhealthy.”
