Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Organic Farming
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Thelonius Cook shares his worries over organic farming and climate change on the Eastern Shore.
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.
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Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Organic Farming
Clip: Season 8 Episode 8 | 58sVideo has Closed Captions
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.
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And so when we get the heavy rains, it's designed to run off of the highway, and then that water ends up draining down on my fields.
And I've had times in here where I've been standing in a foot of water inside my hoop house.
(ethereal music) You know, I've lost ginger in here one year that was growing beautifully, and then it just got, the ground just got too saturated.
Organic baby ginger can sell for as much as, like, $15 a pound.
So that was a devastating loss.
I definitely think about, you know, the impact of more severe storms, you know, the continued rise of sea levels.
It's possible that in my lifetime, not being able to farm out here on the Eastern Shore.
Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Barrier Islands
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Clip: S8 Ep8 | 50s | The barrier islands of Virginia's Eastern Shore are left vulnerable to rising sea levels. (50s)
Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Oysters
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Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Preview
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Preview: S8 Ep8 | 30s | A look at the rising waters on Virginia's Eastern Shore and challenges for its residents. (30s)
Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Trailer
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Preview: S8 Ep8 | 1m | A look at the rising waters on Virginia's Eastern Shore and challenges for its residents. (1m)
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