Weather and crops

It looks like this is shaping up to be a pretty bad year for the local farmers (and hence for those of us who would like to eat local produce to the extent that we can). First, in March the weather got incredibly hot, so everything budded, and then there was a severe frost (well, severe for here, for March): at the time, reports said we would lose 90% of the peach crop -- and now, the peaches I have seen are about half the size (that is, one eighth the weight!) of a normal peach.
Last week at the farmers' market, one of the farmers there said that his onions were all small this year: in this case, it was the lack of rain a month or so ago: then yesterday, the berry farm had no blueberries yet: even though most of the area has had some nice drenching rains in the past couple of weeks, for some reason their microclimate is such that they've had only one sixteenth of an inch of rain in the past month.

Sweating it,
N.