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about 75 percent of the mulch had been removed with less than one acre remaining.
The couple is not sure of the total extent of the damage, but Bynum said they will not sell any vegetables exposed to the herbicides.
"We’re looking at a really big loss,” she said. “There’s a lot that we don’t know. We’ll error on the side of caution, but we want to know what’s going on.”
The farm’s late-summer crops will be fine, because Bynum and Plaksin stopped spreading the mulch before planting them.
The couple plans to bring produce from some friends’ organic farms to meet the demand for the 60 or so local shares of their Community Supported Agriculture program. The roughly 100 shares that are sold in the Washington, D.C., area will be suspended for eight weeks, Bynum said.
E-mail the reporter at kallen@timespapers.com
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