BOISTFORT VALLEY, Wash. - Dozens of small family farms are now under several feet of mud in the Boistfort Valley.

"We're really at square one again – or less," said Mike Peroni, certified organic vegetable grower. "At square one at least I had running equipment."

He cannot even begin to quantify his losses.

"It is not in the tens of thousands, it's certainly in the hundreds of thousands of dollars that it's gonna take us to get back where we are," he said.

Volunteer Hannah Johnson works to keep their spirits up while helping coordinate the clean-up. Keeping busy is essential because exhaustion and shock sets in during moments of down-time – like when she remembers trying to clean up an infant's room in a devastated farm house.

"I pulled her drawers out and there was a layer of silt in all the baby clothes," she said. "It's incredibility intense and sad."

An estimated 50 family farms west of Chehalis were devastated by floods in Lewis County. More than 300 cows and horses are dead.

Farmers need to clear debris from fields, but their tractors don't work and they'll have to pay thousands of dollars each to fix them.

The Washington Farm Bureau has started relief fund.

"One hundred percent of those dollars will go to those farmers and ranchers in need," said Gary Joiner.

Peromi needs to rent house while yet paying a mortgage on his home and servicing a farm debt. He realizes he'll need help to dig out of his financial hole.

"These farmers, myself included, have an enormous amount of pride. And that's a big liability for us right now," he said.