A WELL-KNOWN family farm has managed to keep its doors open to customers despite being affected by flooding.
Charlie Clive, who is the owner of Clive's Fruit Farm, managed to save his strawberries from being destroyed by the floods by growing them on table tops instead of on the ground.
The owner, age 61, said he has lived in Upton upon Severn his whole life which has left him well-equipped to handle the floods.
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Mr Clive, age 61, said: "Our strawberries are on a tabletop so they are out of the water, but it also makes the strawberries easier to pick during the strawberry season which is in May.
"As far as you can see, there is water and the farmhouse is flooded.
"I've lived here all my life, so the flooding doesn't affect me at all.
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Mr Clive said he still wants people to know the farm is still open despite the flooding, he said: "We've put a lot of signs up to tell people we are still opening.
"Most of our customers know how to get to us when it is flooding, but we want people to know we're still open.
"But when Hanley Road closes, is when it becomes massively quieter, we're waiting for all the water to clear and go down.
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"But it happens quite a few times a year.
"Things have been quieter, but it's that time of year.
"Flooding is a regular occurrence, but there is not a lot we can do about it.
"But it is looking positive for the strawberry season which starts in May".
The flood has even attracted some additional visitors to the farm and Mr Clive said he has noticed swans swimming in the flood water.
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He said: "There are swans swimming down where we grow strawberries.
"Some of the crops don't live getting their feet wet and sitting in saturated soil for too long.
"We don't grow any fruit where it floods, but if some of the trees are in saturated soil for too long, they might die."
However, Mr Clive are still 'very much open for business despite flooding' and customers can still visit the farm shop, butchery and cafe.
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