When Ted Wycall started his organic farm in Salisbury five years ago, scarce rain was not a part of his calculations.
But after surviving a serious drought last year, Wycall and his 200-acre Greenbranch Farm, and his fellow farmers across the Lower Eastern Shore, are battling severe heat and drought again this summer.
"It's a very unpleasant surprise," he said. "Just when you think you've got all the expenses covered, you're seeing the vegetables just wilt down and die. I've tilled [under] probably four or five different vegetable fields because I knew they weren't going to make it due to the lack of water."
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It's a good thing Teddy was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. This is the life a real farmer.
Ho hum , the farmer , the government will pay him again for crop damage. Not to worry , buy another cadilac.
Jack K Richards has left a new comment on your post "Crops Getting Parched on Lower Shore":
Hey Ted, sounds like you won't be getting a lot of sympathy. If I were you I would just down to Dick's and sit on the deck, have a drink and enjoy the fruits of your labor LOL jackkcharl@aol.com
Sorry Jack, I hit reject instead of Publish.
Ted,
I have a used pivot I can sell you.
Hope it's green enough for you.
Wow, why the harsh comments? Ted & Julia are good people, They're improving our community by growing organic veggies and raising pastured meats. Their veggies and meats are the best tasting and the only ones I buy.
You greenies need to understand the meat he sells for $15 lb he buys for $3.50 a pound and it is wormed with the medicine that meat from feedlot cattle are. Even though it is pasture raised it is not pur organic you think your getting.
I don't know if you're directing the "greenie" comment towards me...but I don't think it's crazy to want meat that was not raised confined in its own feces, jacked up on antibiotics. I'm not calling you names for not caring where your food comes from. I don't know where you get your info from, but maybe you should ride over there & see the cattle he's RAISING (not buying) and stop by on one of the mornings he's processing the pastured chickens right in front of his barn. Get your facts straight - I never said I was buying organic meat - just pastured. It's not the same.
I see Teddy out on the farm quite often. He is really hands on and works really hard.
This is the guy who stood up at a public hearing and told the county council that he wanted farmland downzoned so it would be cheaper so he could buy it. No sympathy for you Ted.
All of us need to DEMAND that the military stop with this weather modification project (spraying aluminum and barium salts into our sky).
They are creating draught here and excessive rains elsewhere.
Anonymous said...
This is the guy who stood up at a public hearing and told the county council that he wanted farmland downzoned so it would be cheaper so he could buy it. No sympathy for you Ted.
July 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM
Proof that he is a tree hugger and in bed with the land conservancy groups.
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