🌱 Zoom Cooking + From Orchids To Marijuana + Fatal Stabbing

Good morning, neighbors! It's me again, Diane Witek, your host of the Riverhead Daily.

First, today's weather:

Cloudy, morning rain, then windy. High: 55, low: 31.

Here are the top stories today in Riverhead:

1. Zoom Cooking, DIY Pizza, Riverhead Farmers Market. The East End Food Institute has announced the grand reopening of the Riverhead Farmers Market at the former Homeside Florist and Garden Center, specifically 139 Main Road in Riverhead. To celebrate local farms and producers, they’ll launch on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 27, and the market will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekly through April 30, 2022. For the first time, the market will accept SNAP benefits (formerly known as food stamps) and will also partner with Field & Fork Network, a Buffalo-based nonprofit that has expanded the Double Up Food Bucks program across New York. (Dan's Papers)
2. Orchids And hemp At Bianchi-Davis. Bill Bianchi has spent the majority of his 90 years focused on growing orchids. He’s been growing the beautiful tropical plants at his greenhouses in Riverhead for decades. Though the greenhouses aren’t open to the public, nearly 50,000 orchids are growing there at any given time and are distributed to many local retailers and interior designers across the East End. Now, he’s experimenting with hemp and hopes to ultimately grow marijuana. (Northforker)
3. Woman charged with stabbing girlfriend to death in Riverhead. Karen Abigail Delacruz-Reyes, 21, was arrested and charged with first-degree manslaughter after stabbing her girlfriend, Marta Esmerelda Ramirez-Carbajal, 20, to death at their home Thursday night. (Riverheadlocal.com)

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Today in Riverhead:

• Be the Next Stan Lee - Riverhead Free Library. (5:30 p.m.)

Riverhead Patch Notebook

• Suffolk County Sheriff's Office: "On Saturday, Nov. 20, the Town of Brookhaven and Special Olympics New York hosted the 12th Annual “Polar Plunge: Freezin’ for a Reason” at Cedar Beach in Mount Sinai." (Facebook)
• Suffolk County Sheriff's Office: "The Sheriff's Office joins with the entire community in sending heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Carmyne Payton. May he Rest In Peace." (Facebook)

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