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Another Storm Victim — Pecan Groves2 In Southwest Georgia

NOEL KING, HOST:

When Hurricane Michael plowed3 through southwest Georgia, it hit that area's farms like a bomb. Cotton fields near harvest were blown bare, and decades-old pecan groves were leveled. GPB's Grant Blankenship visited a pecan farm in southwest Georgia to see how the recovery is progressing.

GRANT BLANKENSHIP, BYLINE4: Tucked away in a corner of the Pine Knoll5 Pecan Grove1 near the town of Pretoria, Ga., is one of those things that Mitch Bulger says makes living and working here worth it.

MITCH BULGER: I promise you, you stick your finger in that, that's the coldest water. There goes a duck.

BLANKENSHIP: A flock of about half a dozen water birds fly through cypress6 trees bordering a bubbling, spring-fed pool. And yes, this summer swimming hole is, in fact, cold.

Oh, wow.

BULGER: (Laughter) A lot of fun back here.

BLANKENSHIP: Bulger's been the farm manager at Pine Knoll for 20 years. The family that owns the plantation7 is mostly scattered8 to Colorado and Rhode Island. But for Bulger, this is the only home his kids have ever known.

BULGER: This means everything to me.

BLANKENSHIP: Which is why the scene at our backs hurts so much. It's one of the thousands of the farm's pecan trees laid low by Hurricane Michael. And this one was a real moneymaker.

BULGER: One of the oldest varieties there is.

BLANKENSHIP: It's actually called a moneymaker?

BULGER: It's actually called a moneymaker. Here's the biggest one, Grant, this one right here.

BLANKENSHIP: Its ripped-up taproot is encased in red clay. And maybe 30 yards away, pecans are piled like gravel9 in a dry stream bed between enormous tree trunks. The nuts could still be gathered by hand, if only someone would do the work.

BULGER: I had a crew Monday, and now I don't have a crew. So... (Laughter). I paid them 25 cent, and they still didn't stay.

BLANKENSHIP: That's 25 cents a pound, and that works out to about $25 a day. In an average year, these nuts would have been headed to China - not this year, and not because of the weather, but because of the U.S.-China trade war. Now?

BULGER: I don't know that we can supply what our Americans will need.

BLANKENSHIP: There's still money to be made in a grove of far younger trees, though it didn't escape damage.

(SOUNDBITE OF CHAINSAW)

BLANKENSHIP: Thousands of these trees must be cut down, too. Still, Bulger says the younger trees are the long-term future of the Pine Knoll plantation. But in the short term?

BULGER: We got those lean years coming ahead of us, and we'll - you know, we'll work around them.

BLANKENSHIP: Mitch Bulger says that means replanting and tending and waiting - for decades. Then he's hopeful he'll see the Pine Knoll Pecan Plantation thick with moneymakers again.

For NPR News, I'm Grant Blankenship in Pretoria, Ga.


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1 grove v5wyy     
n.林子,小树林,园林
参考例句:
  • On top of the hill was a grove of tall trees.山顶上一片高大的树林。
  • The scent of lemons filled the grove.柠檬香味充满了小树林。
2 groves eb036e9192d7e49b8aa52d7b1729f605     
树丛,小树林( grove的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The early sun shone serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields. 朝阳宁静地照耀着已经发黄的树丛和还是一片绿色的田地。
  • The trees grew more and more in groves and dotted with old yews. 那里的树木越来越多地长成了一簇簇的小丛林,还点缀着几棵老紫杉树。
3 plowed 2de363079730210858ae5f5b15e702cf     
v.耕( plow的过去式和过去分词 );犁耕;费力穿过
参考例句:
  • They plowed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland. 他们犁了将近10万英亩未开垦的高沼地。 来自辞典例句
  • He plowed the land and then sowed the seeds. 他先翻土,然后播种。 来自辞典例句
4 byline sSXyQ     
n.署名;v.署名
参考例句:
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
5 knoll X3nyd     
n.小山,小丘
参考例句:
  • Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll.对于希尔弗来说,爬上那小山丘真不是件容易事。
  • He crawled up a small knoll and surveyed the prospect.他慢腾腾地登上一个小丘,看了看周围的地形。
6 cypress uyDx3     
n.柏树
参考例句:
  • The towering pine and cypress trees defy frost and snow.松柏参天傲霜雪。
  • The pine and the cypress remain green all the year round.苍松翠柏,常绿不凋。
7 plantation oOWxz     
n.种植园,大农场
参考例句:
  • His father-in-law is a plantation manager.他岳父是个种植园经营者。
  • The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.这个种植园主把大片土地占为己有。
8 scattered 7jgzKF     
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
参考例句:
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
9 gravel s6hyT     
n.砂跞;砂砾层;结石
参考例句:
  • We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。
  • More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。

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