Whoever did this to her food garden should be sentenced to work 5 years of hard labour picking fruit and veggies:
Carly Burd (@carlyburd43 on TikTok) is based in Harlow, Essex, and has been growing fruits and vegetables on her plot of land as a part of her “A Meal on Me With Love” initiative to help put food on the tables of families in need.
This was until someone vandalized her land and crops with salt.
In a video that has garnered over two million views at the time of writing, a tearful Burd shows the freshly-tilled soil polluted with white specs of salt.
“I’m absolutely heartbroken,” she says.
Burd suspects someone must have jumped over her fence at night to scatter salt over her land. Just as excess sodium is bad for humans, too much sodium chloride (aka table salt) can cause irreversible damage to plants because it dehydrates them.
“That means everything I’ve planted won’t grow and I can’t replant on it because it won’t grow,” Burd explains in her clip. “So all the hours and hours of work that we’ve put in is now dead and they’ve done it everywhere.”
Through tears, she proclaims, “You won’t stop me because I’ll just pick it all up and I will carry on.”
Burd writes in her caption that she has helped supply 1,613 people with food through the cost of living crisis — an ongoing period in the country where prices on essential goods and services are rising much faster than household incomes. As of January 2023, the crisis had affected 92% of U.K. households.
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Even as Burd struggles to make ends meet with the disability assistance she receives for her multiple sclerosis and lupus, the TikToker says she pays for most of this initiative herself — with occasional help from companies.
In September of 2022, she created a GoFundMe to raise £4,000 ($4995.25) to help with the costs. But after her recent TikTok went viral, over 4,000 people helped to surpass this goal, raising nearly £65,000 ($81,172.85).
Woman who fed starving neighbors shares heartbreaking video after vandals poison her garden with salt: ‘You won’t stop me’
“I’m absolutely heartbroken."www.yahoo.com
