From all of us at Georgia Organics, we’d like to provide 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 brought about 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 injury 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 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 portion of our crops. They only form 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, over a month later we had Helene. And it was simply manner windier than we anticipated. So normally when there is a hurricane or tropical storm, I am going to take the plastic off our homes, the greenhouses and stuff. But it surely was saying it wasn’t gonna be that dangerous, nevertheless it form of turned towards us because it approached Georgia and it tore aside two of our Caterpillar tunnels…every part inside them died. All of our remaining crops bought wind injury fairly dangerous.”
