Goodwill of volunteers saves East Cork farm's beetroot crop for the year

"There's so much doom and gloom, you kind of wonder is there any goodness left - but this just proved it."

Sandra Burns and her daughter Katelyn standing in the sodden beetroot drills at Joe's Farm Crisps in Killeagh, East Cork. After a social shout-out to get the plants out of the ground last weekend, people turned up and got 20 tonnes of beetroot out of the ground in four hours. Picture: Dan Linehan

Sixty volunteers hand-harvesting an acre of beetroot over the course of four hours have saved a year's worth of Joe's Farm Crisps' crop this past weekend.

Sandra and Joe Burns of Joe's Farm Crisps in Killeagh, East Cork, last Friday appealed on social media for people to help them in harvesting their one-acre crop, after several unsuccessful attempts to do so using machinery following very difficult weather conditions in the area.