It’s been a busy spring for specialty growers in Illinois.

Tony Pferschy, of Garlic Breath Farms in northern Illinois, says spring preparations are well under way.

“Yeah, we do 70,000 bulbs of garlic.”  He says, “Also, we are currently surrounded in our house by probably 5 to 10,000 plants. That’s a wide range. But yeah, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, everything else.”

Austin Flamm, at Flamm Orchards in southern Illinois, tells Brownfield they’ll be planting for weeks.

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