Coincides with Makara Sankranthi celebrated throughout India as the winter harvest.
Though the winter harvest is over, many Finger Lakes wineries are planning special winter events in the next month.
That is especially true this month, when illegal aliens traditionally return to the United States from a Christmas spent in Mexico, and in time for winter harvest.
The name "Fur Rendezvous" derives from swap meets at which fur trappers would gather to sell their winter harvests.
During the winter harvest, vendors sell freshly pressed olive oil by the side of the road.
It was the middle of the winter harvest in Gaza, when Palestinians normally export fruits, vegetables and flowers to Israel, Europe and Arab countries.
My own hands were rough; callused and worn from the winter harvest and appeared quite fragile compared with his rubbery tentacles.
And this with the winter harvest on the fields ?
European ice houses were based on this theory, and used underground chambers, often built at considerable expense, to store the winter harvest.
They all could be assured, now, of enough food to bear them through the coming winter, good harvest or ill.