Just down the road a piece. This is where we used to go for ice cream when we needed a summer break and bought sweet corn and peas and honey and met friends and socialized. I loved to sit in the car there and look across the green, green fields to the sandy cliffs along the Schoharie where the swallows nest each summer. It is a wonderful spot but the flood hit there hard.
This story offers a real tribute to the persistence, toughness and heart of this NY farm family. These are good people and I hope the road before them is smoother and easier than the one they have traveled this year.
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That was such an awful storm.
I wish those folks well. I've stopped there when going to the Camping World just up the street. Good ice cream and excellent produce in season. I seem to remember the fields flooding in part almost every spring, however. Mostly from the Mohawk, but certainly from the crek, too.
Sad story but one that certainly needs to be told often to inform the non-ag community of the risk farmers take to put food on the world's tables.
It just breaks your heart when you travel by some of these places that were the hardest hit.
Dani, the region recovered pretty quickly from the 2006 flood. I don't think it is going to happen that way this time
Joated, been shopping there for decades. Always some flooding on the river flats, but this was just crazy!
anon, I feel so bad for them. Not to mention missing the two farm stands there. We stocked up every fall on potatoes and such....not this year
Lisa, I haven't been to any of the bad areas yet...but.... it sure is awful
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