EVENTS: FIRST FRIDAY, CIRCUS INCOGNITUS 18 CLASSICAL: NEW MUSIC FOR THE NEW YEAR 18 FILM: “THE FIGHTER,” “ALL GOOD THINGS” 24 URBAN JOURNAL: CUOMO AND US
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RootsCollider • Josh Forget • Ryan T. Carey • The Sunstreak • Watkins & the Rapiers • Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
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Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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Vol 40 No 17
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AND MORE MUSIC, PAGE 12
News. Music. Life.
We’re falling off a cliff.” NEWS, PAGE 5
Rochester teen birth rates drop. NEWS, PAGE 4
Kodak helps take tech to market. NEWS, PAGE 6
Flour City Bread, more food news. DINING, PAGE 8
“Jacques Brel” at Blackfriars. THEATER, PAGE 22
COVER STORY | BY JAMES LEACH | PAGE 9 | PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK
Locally grown veggies, all winter long On the Sunday before Christmas, the stalls at the Long Season Farmers’ Market in Brighton were heaped with fresh produce, and the aisles crowded with self-described locavores eager to take it home with them. There were beets, parsnips, turnips, radishes, potatoes, and lots of winter squash. You could also find hardy greens like roccoli rabe, baby bok choi, and kale. But there was also a bumper crop of lettuce, bright green against a background of earth tones. Outside, a foot of snow covered the ground, night temperatures were in the teens, and dusk gathered at 4:30 p.m. Yet, here it was: fresh lettuce,
grown within an hour of the market and picked only hours before it was to be sold — in December. These greens are the answer to the dilemma of what someone who is determined to eat fresh, local produce is going to eat during winter in upstate New York. They also represent both an opportunity and a challenge to established supermarket chains and local farmers looking to expand the market for their products, and make those products more reliably profitable to grow and harvest. They may be the start of a revolution in the way people think about winter vegetables and winter farming.