NC farms unite behind farmers who lost crops to Hurricane Helene [Video]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The farming community is tight-knit with local farms around Charlotte doing what they can to help their neighbors in need after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina. 

Even without the same devastating damage, the hurt in their hearts after Helene was all the same. 

“Just a lot of rain. Too much rain,” Brian Howard, a farmer at Howard Family Farm in Harmony, told WCNC Charlotte. 

He says the damage out west is a completely different story.

“It’s disaster like I’ve never seen before,” Howard said.

Howard’s farm got a lot of rain even before Helene, and it damaged some of their pumpkin crop, but he says it’s nothing compared to what happened in the mountains. 

“We didn’t have any erosion problems like they’ve had up in the mountains, we just had like 12 inches …