Grower Carly Burd has seen a surge in support for her GoFundMe initiative following an incident that saw her land covered with salt in the night, preventing her from growing.
Burd had transformed her garden into an allotment to grow fruit and vegetables to help those struggling during the cost-of-living crisis, an initiative she called ‘A Meal on Me with Love’.
She recently reported that someone had ”jumped over in the night and put salt all over the land”, preventing her from growing food on it or harvesting what was already there.
Burds’ GoFundMe for the project has now raised over £190,000 (of an original £4,000 goal) from over 11,800 donors.
Speaking on the incident in a video posted to social media, Burd said: “I’m absolutely heartbroken. Someone’s jumped over in the night and put salt all over the land.
“That means everything I’ve just planted won’t grow and I can’t replant on it because it won’t grow.
“All the hours and hours and hours of work that we’ve put in, is now dead. And they’ve done it everywhere. How could you do that?”
Burd, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and lupus, started the initiative because she knows “how hard its going to be this winter with cost of living”.
“I fund everything myself or I hound companies to help,” her GoFundMe page reads.
“What I raise goes straight back into ‘a meal on me’. I’d love to be able to raise enough to get the things I need to make a difference to others lives.”
Burd issued a message to the culprit of the incident, saying that she would not give up on the initiative.
“You know what? You won’t stop me,” she said.
“Because I’ll just pick it all up and I’ll carry on. Okay, I can’t plant in this section, but I’ll carry on. You won’t stop me whatsoever.”
