Organic Farming in Flood Waters

Thelonius Cook, who owns and manages an organic farm on Virginia's Eastern Shore, talks about the challenges of farming with climate change affecting agriculture. Cook shares how water in the form of heavy rains, run off and flooding has destroyed his crops, and why this may be the future.
AGAINST THE CURRENT: LIFE ON THE EASTERN SHORE: A powerful look at how residents of Virginia’s Eastern Shore are subject to rising sea waters and the challenges it has on their lives and livelihood. How can this community shed light on conversations happening around these issues of climate change? A co-production of WHRO Public Media and WORLD.
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this needs to be talked about much more. How are realpeople affected? what can be done localy ?