JASPER COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) – Just one week after a life-changing surgery, Jasper County farmer Marissa Paykos is already back at work at Whippoorwill Farms—directing crews, managing daily operations, and learning to move with a new prosthetic.
Paykos, who has run the farm for the past decade, says the goal has always been simple: get fresh, locally grown produce onto tables across the Coastal Empire and the Lowcountry. But a serious accident nearly two years ago forced her and her family to rethink everything.
A fall that changed the farm
Paykos suffered a bad fall while working on the farm nearly two years ago, resulting in a serious ankle and foot injury. Complicating the situation, she was pregnant at the time, limiting what doctors could do immediately.
She says doctors attempted multiple procedures to save the foot…