{"id":211489,"date":"2026-06-05T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211489\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:21:12","slug":"flooding-is-rewriting-the-rules-for-this-pennsylvania-farm-yale-climate-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211489\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding is rewriting the rules for this Pennsylvania farm \u00bb Yale Climate Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transcript:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the climate warms, many areas are experiencing more rain and flooding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Jennifer Glenister, owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newmorningfarm.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Morning Farm<\/a> in central Pennsylvania, is feeling the consequences of extreme and unpredictable weather firsthand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At her farm, she grows organic fruits, vegetables, and herbs to sell at farmers markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glenister: \u201cEverything from arugula to zucchini.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glenister says in the past, low-lying areas on her farm flooded regularly in winter, when vegetables were not growing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So she could prevent erosion by planting cover crops that hold soil in place with their roots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now, she says floods sometimes hit during the early growing season and destroy young vegetable plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glenister: \u201cThat\u2019s hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she says losing soil to erosion is worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glenister: \u201cI can plant another crop. I can\u2019t replace the soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So to adapt to the changing climate, Glenister is now growing fewer crops in her low-lying fields. Instead, she\u2019s asking neighbors on higher ground to grow crops she can buy and resell at farmers markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019s determined to persevere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glenister: \u201cIt won\u2019t be the way it was. It won\u2019t be the way it is now. But I think within our community of farms, we can continue to grow food and serve our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporting credit: Ethan Freedman \/ ChavoBart Digital Media \/ Thanks to Pasa Sustainable Agriculture for logistical support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transcript: As the climate warms, many areas are experiencing more rain and flooding. And Jennifer Glenister, owner of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9059,28,30,29,66],"class_list":["post-211489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-flood","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}