Effort to help metro area farmers hit hard by the December freeze - WSB-TV
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Rahul Anand knows a farmer can be at the mercy of the weather.
But this time the weather showed no mercy.
“Honestly, I didn’t expect how bad it was going to be,” Anand said.
It happened over Christmas when temperatures fell way below freezing.
His Snapfinger Farm in Newton County took a beating.
“Instead of just a few leaves getting yellow or falling off, the plants were essentially just melting to the ground,” Rahul said.
“Farmers are used to having cold nights and covering things. But this was multiple days of deep, deep freeze,” Georgia Organics CEO Alice Rolls said. Rolls heads up the nonprofit which helps the state’s organic farmers, especially when the weather turns against them.
