Source: Paul Stephen, WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 1/27/17


Draining a swamp is easier said than done -- a fact Black River Organic Farm owner Stefan Hartmann knows better than most. About four months have passed since his acreage was submerged by the farm's winding namesake body of water in Sampson County, but evidence of the deluge is still easy to find -- most notably in the chest-high line of earthy sediment clinging to the walls of his three plastic-domed greenhouses. 

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