Hundreds of vegetables were stolen from the Newton Community Farm over the weekend. But since the theft, the farm has received an outpouring of support from local community members.
The vegetables were stolen sometime between 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday, according to a Facebook post from the farm’s executive director, Sue Bottino.
“Someone, or multiple people, took hundreds of basil, scallions, eggplant, and cucumbers planted in the field and trays of cucumber, tomato, kale, corn, and other seedlings from the greenhouse,” Bottino wrote. “Whoever took these plants knew what they were doing and targeted certain crops.”
Bottino described how the culprits aimed for specific plants, first picking leeks and onions while trying to find scallions. “They took other plants by digging them out from the roots so they could be re-planted,” she wrote. “They removed the cloth that was over plants in the field and took them,” Bottino said the thieves also crawled under tarps picking eggplants and cucumbers.
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