ELLSWORTH AMERICAN • April 30, 2020
Even in a good year, farming is an exercise in uncertainty, with farmers at the whim of markets, yields and weather. In a pandemic, growers have to add another worry to the list: will my workers arrive? “We don’t have a Plan B,” said Simeon Allen, of Allen’s Wild Maine Blueberries. “If we can’t get workers here, we won’t be able to harvest.”