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They’ve sold soap at the Brookfield Farmers Market for 20 years. Now, they’re ‘nonessential’ and not invited back.

Quoted: Kristen Krokowski, a commercial horticulture educator at the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Waukesha, wrote the guidelines and recommendations for farmers markets in Wisconsin during the coronavirus pandemic.

Farmers markets were never prohibited under Evers’ safer-at-home order because the sale of food is considered an essential business. Regardless, that order is no longer in place.

“It’s all guidance now because there are no rules,” Krokowski said.