When Rain Falls on Cherry Season
July 14, 2009
Sara Lipka is an intern for The Farm At Sunnyside and has been contributing to The Atlantic Food Channel on a regular basis about her experience. Previously, Sara was a reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education, in Washington, D.C.
In a drought, you can irrigate. But in a deluge, what are you going to do, hold an umbrella over your farm? Like much of the East Coast, Rappahannock County, Virginia, sloshed through the spring. By June we’d pretty much stopped checking the forecast. Six and a half inches of rain fell during the month, about 25 percent more than in each of the last two Junes. According to our closest weather station, last month was a washout; from June 3 till the summer solstice, it rained every day but two. Good thing the cover of our Mid-Atlantic Orchard Monitoring Guide is laminated…
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