LIMESTONE, Tenn. (WJHL) — River Creek Farm is finally past the recovery process after Hurricane Helene devastated the region last fall.

“I would consider all of our farmland that was flooded to be back to production status,” owner Jamie Dove said.

He said that after an event like Helene, they need to focus on the soil first.

“You don’t think of it this way until you’ve done it for a while, but you think you’re growing vegetables,” Dove said. “But really, what you’re growing is soil.”

The soil was heavily impacted by the floodwaters, which brought in materials that altered the types of plants that could grow.

“Some promising things and some not so promising things about the soil health, but I don’t think it’s anything we can’t overcome over time,” Dove said.

The most significant loss on the farm is the nearly 70 acres of strawberry fields, which Dove said will never recover. Instead, they have turned their attention to restarting their subscription grocery boxes that you can receive weekly or monthly.

“When we harvest this stuff, we literally harvest it either the evening before we bring it to you or the morning that we bring it to you,” Dove said.

Dove explained that they’ve learned a lot since their last distribution and are now working to make it as convenient as possible to encourage shopping local.

“It’s good for the environment, it’s good for the local, economy,” Dove said. “It’s good for us local farmers when we live in a in a state that the number one business is agriculture.”

For more information, you can visit their website, River Creek Farms