No one thought two days of heavy rain would result in a new limited-edition dish in Sarnia. "I've been making kimchi for a while, and I usually source it from local farms when I can," says Lo-Anne Chan, owner of Jiak, a small-batch kimchi producer in Sarnia, Canada.
"In the summer, we always try to do something together to bring attention to the fact we have three awesome organic farms in our county," she adds. But this year, a devastating series of storms saw huge rainfall over two days in July, leaving many farmers with destroyed crops.
"Our little farm recorded 6.5 inches of rain in six days," continues Ryan Slyzuk, farmer and co-owner of Taproots Green Gardens. "What happens when you get that much water in a week? The water just sits there, and the plants drown. For us, it was devastating."
Earlier this year, Slyzuk installed a 750-foot tile from the back of his market garden to the roadside ditch, but with so much water in two days, the ditch backed up, and Slyzuk still lost crops.
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