BY Lore Croghan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunshine|Daily News
Cold, snow — so what? If it’s Saturday, it’s Greenmarket day in Inwood.Farmers from as far away as the Finger Lakes will be out on a barricaded block of Isham St., selling fresh foods. So will loyal customers, no matter how frigid the winter winds.”It’s great that the market is open in winter,” Kingsbridge, Bronx, resident Norman Henriquez, 31, said on a recent Saturday after buying green Mutsu apples for $1.25 a pound.”I’m so used to what I buy here — it’s become such an important park of my diet,” the computer technician said.He and his mom, Delsis, 53, also got hot mulled cider from Samascott Orchards, a Columbia County farm, to warm their hands. Though piled-up snow stood 3 feet high on the curb between Cooper St. and Seaman Ave., the market was in full swing.Twenty-one of the city’s 49 Greenmarkets — showcasing small, family-owned regional farms and food producers — operate year-round. Inwood’s weekly food fest is one of them. The upper Manhattan nabe’s market, launched on a partial-year basis in 2004, went full-year in 2006.Several farmers said the turnout at Inwood makes it worth their while to wake up in the middle of the night, load their trucks and head for the city.”There are never dead days,” said Margaret Hoffman, the market’s winter manager.”I feel like the Inwood market has saved my farm,” said Elizabeth Ryan, 55, of Breezy Hill Orchard in Dutchess County. “No matter what the weather, we can count on them.”
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