By Michelle Castillo

Leslie Nilsson realized something had to be done. Unprecedented summer rains had destroyed the tomato crops and made traditional summer fruits like berries ripen much later. The zucchini crops rotted, and with growing schedules pushed back, the problems looked like they would persist into the fall.

The final straw came when Nilsson, a restaurateur, called her produce buyer only to hear the woman weeping because she selling so little produce she couldn’t support her family. Nilsson then chose to refashion her Long Island City restaurant and use only locally grown produce.

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