If your back is against the wall, call a farmer, Abi Monkman wrote
Farmers are known to help one another, and a recent event helps drive that point home.
Abi Monkman, a cereal crop farmer who also raises horses in England issued a plea for help on social media after a fire on her farm started to come towards her family’s home.
“Is there anyone who can please come to ours and pull a plow to sort a fire break?” she wrote on Facebook on July 9. “Putting it on for the fire brigade. As many as possible!!”
Abi Monkman Facebook photo.
Her community in Malton has seen high temperatures, high winds, and little to now rainfall over the last two weeks, making conditions ripe for a fire.
Local farmers answered her call.
Pictures posted to Monkman’s Facebook page show multiple tractors pulling implements to stop the fire from spreading further and support the firefighters on scene.
She’s appreciative of the community support.
“The amount of people offering help has really blown us away,” she wrote. “Without everybody rallying together, we have no doubt that we would have lost our home.”
The end of Monkman’s thank you note reaffirmed the dedication farmers have to getting the job done.
“If your back is against the wall, call a farmer. They get (manure) sorted.”