A taste of fall is available now if you know where to look in Door and Kewaunee counties. After a wet spring and start to the summer, the warm weather over the last few weeks has allowed apple growers to pick some of their early-season varieties a week earlier than usual. For Steve Wood of Wood Orchard in Sturgeon Bay, that means Rave apples, a cross between Honeycrisp and MonArk varieties, are coming off the trees and into the market. Wood says the recent stretch of dry weather has been a blessing for his crop.

In Kewaunee County, Hillside Apples owner Bill Roethle says the mild temperatures throughout the growing season means customers can expect their varieties to become available earlier than usual.

Spanning dozens of different varieties, Wisconsin's apple growers produce about 56 million pounds of fruit yearly.