Farms react to cold snaps, low overnight temps

CAMBRIDGE, Md – Cold overnight conditions have farmers snapping into action to protect their crops.

At Emily’s Produce in Cambridge, they say they got the vast majority of their fall harvest out of the ground and onto their shelves and are working to protect their crops for next spring.

“We have our strawberries, they are in the ground now, we have to keep a cover on them so the frost doesn’t affect them, but they’re kind of nurtured all winter,” said Emily Wright of Emily’s Produce.

She says the berries are planted in plastic pods in the ground to insulate them, with covers going on overtop every night and removed in the morning to keep the heat levels constant for the berries until springtime.