GREEN BAY, Wis. — It is finally that time of the year again: The Farmer's Market on Broadway is back open. But for farmers, the weather has played a big role in what they can sell right now.
D&T Gardens is selling asparagus, rhubarb, potatoes, Georgia peaches and Michigan blueberries. But the only produce they can sell are from out-of-state, last season, or crops that come up every year.
From the temperatures to the rainfall, Mother Nature hasn't been too kind to farmers here in northeast Wisconsin this spring. Some farmers say last year was tough for similar reasons. Farmers are anywhere from a couple weeks to a month behind this year in their growing. For D&T, it's mainly because of the rain.
"We have to wait until the sun kind of dries it all up before we start the season and plant all of our produce because we do plant a lot of stuff so we're like eager to get going but we're waiting for the water to dry up,” says D&T Gardens’ Megan Johnson.
She says if the weather was cooperating, most crops could be in the ground by now. Many farmers, including D&T Gardens, say these farmers markets are a main source of income for them, so not being able to provide produce impacts them in many ways.
