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US: Grower struggles to overcome devastating floods to start strawberry season

People from all over the area come to Scott's Farm Market to get freshly picked strawberries but this year getting these strawberries to your table was a difficult task to accomplish.

"We had a pretty good crop. We still have a good crop. We just don't have the amount we used to have," said Scott. Steve Scott is the owner of Scott's Strawberry and Tomato Farm.

The farm started with his mom and dad back in the 1950s. For decades the Scott family has provided our region with fresh strawberries but after Helene hit their future was up in the air.

"The field that we had ready to plant strawberries on washed away, said Scott. When I say washed away I don't mean it just went over it. I mean it washed four feet of topsoil off of 17 acres. For a couple of days I really didn't know what to do or how to do it but everybody in the family we all work together the guys at the farm," said Scott.

Read more at WCYB

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