A farming organisation said it would not let damage caused by Storm Goretti "finish" its work. Soul Farm said its site in Flushing, near Falmouth in Cornwall, had about £20,000 worth of damage caused on 8 January as the storm's 99mph (159km/h) winds destroyed five tunnels it uses to grow vegetables.
The farm, a community benefit society which provides food boxes with organic produce, has said it needs to raise £10,000 to help cover the loss of winter and spring crops. Abi Gwynn, the farm's operations manager, said the site was in a "shocking" state after the storm blew through, but the team was determined to keep going.
Produce grown at the farm, run by a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is put into food boxes to give people better access to organic fruit and vegetables. The organisation also runs a farmers' market and provides produce for restaurants and shops.
Gwynn said each of the destroyed tunnels – used to grow produce including watercress, spinach and mustard greens - was "essential" for the farm's winter crops. "But the storm decided it had other ideas and basically destroyed them all," he said. "It blew the plastic off, ripped them up and crumpled the steel poles like they were pipe cleaners."
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