By: Ray Strickland
WMAR
Help is on the way for families affected by Hurricane Ida.
“When Hurricane Ida hit down in Louisiana, we wanted to help,” said Jenn Gillispie with First Fruit Farms.
Over two dozen Maryland farms came together to donate more than 100,000 pounds of food.
“Everybody in farming, we always been about helping people in need,” Joe Barten-Felder, who is the Secretary of Agriculture and farmer.
First Fruit Farms in Freeland helped organize the effort. It’s a non-profit that donates all its food grown at the farm for disaster and hunger relief.