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We’ve got our greens covered Thanks to some greenhouse growers in our area, we can forget the days of weaving through the produce aisle, sheepishly hiding our bags of California-grown lettuce from fellow locavores. Gone too are the days of wasting water to wash off the plastic, gassy taste from the thousands of miles traveled by “triplewashed” packaged salad greens. Even when it’s snowing outside, crispy, crunchy and very local lettuce is available for our salad bowls and sandwiches.

Freshwise Farms and Finger Lakes Fresh specialize in hydroponics (derived from the Greek words for water and labor), a method of farming that delivers nutrients to plants in a water solution, without soil, to produce pesticide-free greens. Their greenhouses are clear-domed structures that use solar radiation to warm plants and their contained environments help the growers control light and temperature, pests and other factors, ensuring that a reliable source of food is available for our community. More...