Help Queens Farm Recover From a Horrific Fire

As many of our customers know, Queens Farm suffered a devastating fire a month ago on August 20, 2021 that rendered the house uninhabitable. Thankfully, everyone made it out safely and we are very grateful both to the local fire department and our insurance company for making sure our family has remained safe and housed elsewhere during this past month.

 

As we've assessed the extent of the damage over the last month, it's starting to sink in how long term recovery from this fire will need to be.

 

In this fire, we lost:

 

 

At the moment, we are trying to maintain farm operations by commuting there each day, but with no access to irrigation (especially in our many green houses), electricity, or storage, our production has decreased by 60% and is unlikely to recover to full capacity until after the house is rebuilt in 2022. We have crops dying in the field we cannot tend to, and harvested crops rotting from lack of storage. Replacing our seed stockpile will take years.

 

Since 2003, Queens Farm has been a small family owned and operated farm dedicated to chemical free produce of the kind grocery stores didn't supply. We've given our Asian customers a taste of home they haven't been able to find in the US for decades, discussed health benefits and traded recipes for new favorites with all our customers, and in cycling through over one hundred varieties of produce a year, preserved numerous heirloom breeds, seven of which are various tomatoes. We've strived every day of the last 18 years to stay true to our founding mission of "Chemical Free, Unique, and Affordable."

 

As we struggle to process the combined personal losses of our home,  belongings and sense of safety, and the business that has been our family's primary source of income for the last 10 years, we ask our customers to be patient and understanding when we cannot supply long time favorites like mushrooms, kabocha, and Chinese cucumbers. We also ask for generosity from our community to help us rebuild.

 

Any donations you provide will go directly to the Yin family to replace farm equipment, rebuild storage facilities, and get water and electricity turned on again asap. With your help, we hope to greet 2022 once again rooted and revitalized.