From all of us at Georgia Organics, we’d like to present an enormous heartfelt THANK YOU to everybody who supported our Farmer Fund aid campaigns in 2024. Along with your assist, we raised over $74,250 in aid funding to go towards native farmers impacted by surprising and devastating emergency occasions.
In August 2024, Tropical Storm Debby induced widespread and extreme flooding in Georgia; only a month later, Hurricane Helene made landfall within the U.S. 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 most of the small and natural farms Georgia Organics gives providers 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 obtained a ton of rain. And it flooded our fields and we misplaced portion of our crops. They only type 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 understand over a month later we had Helene. And it was simply approach windier than we anticipated. So often when there is a hurricane or tropical storm, I will take the plastic off our homes, the greenhouses and stuff. Nevertheless it was saying it wasn’t gonna be that dangerous, however it type of turned towards us because it approached Georgia and it tore aside two of our Caterpillar tunnels…every part within them died. All of our remaining crops obtained wind harm fairly dangerous.”
