FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — The growing season is underway at farms across Baldwin County.
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“Every ten days we plant a little bit,” said Vince Allegri as he surveyed his crops of corn, peas, peppers, and squash.
With all of Baldwin County in extreme or severe drought, this growing season is an even bigger challenge for farmers like Allegri. “If we get an inch of rain, everybody is going to jump up and down and be ecstatic, but we need to have another inch in about four days because, as dry as this soil is right now, it will just suck it up.”
To say that Baldwin County is dry would be an understatement. While farmers are doing what they can to survive, if they don’t have an irrigation system, they are pretty much out of…..