The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is offering disaster relief loans to small businesses and private non-profits in Colorado affected by drought. Following an unusually dry winter that left behind lower snowpack, small agricultural producers say they face unpredictable conditions.
Sydney Garevy, Owner, Florist, and Owner of Garvey's Gardens, said they saw their flowers bloom early this year.
"On the growing side, we're about three to four weeks early," she said. "We've had not very much precipitation, especially over the winter. So spring came in like a lion and it has stayed like a lion." Garvey said recent weather patterns have not been kind to certain flowers. As spring is one of their busiest seasons, she said it's hard to predict how they'll be impacted.
"Our daffodil season was like two days," she said. "Because of the 80 degree weather a couple weekends ago, all the daffodils came up and then we had no water and so then they all fried and died."
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