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Multiple reports have detailed widespread health and safety issues with the housing provided to farmworkers, many of whom live on-site.

Heather Flor Cron creció en Portland, Maine, y siempre se sintió una extraña por ser parte de una familia multicultural. Pero decidió quedarse, y profundizó sus raíces trabajando en agricultura para alimentar a la comunidad Latinx a su alrededor.

Heather Flor Cron grew up in Portland, Maine, feeling like an outsider because she was part of a multicultural family. But she decided to stay, and those roots have deepened through her work farming and providing for the Latinx community around her.

A late season freeze and devastating flooding this year has shown more state and federal aid is needed for farmers to survive these extreme weather events

Many farmers in Vermont face significant crop losses, even those that weren’t hit directly by the July floods. That's in part because the ground has been so saturated in recent weeks.

Farms across the state, including at the Intervale in Burlington, provided for state food assistance programs � but now they are recovering from catastrophic flood damage that wiped out crops.

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has approved Gov. Phil Scott's request for a formal disaster designation in response to the May frost that damaged crops, including apple orchards and grapevines.

Many Vermont farmers are urgently seeking support after the catastrophic floods wiped out their fields.

Owner Joie Lehouillier says Foote Brook Farm took every precaution they thought necessary before the flooding, but it wasn’t enough. Lamoille County was among the hardest hit areas in the state after the Lamoille River rose to heights not seen in living memory.

A Burlington-area man says his small organic farm sustained $350,000-$400,000 in crop damages alone � and was canoeing through his fields after heavy rains earlier this week.