Good, Clean & Fair Food
It’s What Makes a Tomato Red! One of the things that set a homegrown tomato apart from the rest of the summer’s bounty is its beautiful red color. This color comes from a collection of beneficial plant chemicals called lycopenoids. The most common one is called lycopene. This carotenoid pigment is very rich in antioxidant […]
Here are a few ways to trellis tomato plants, so that you can get greater yields, reduce diseases, and create easy access for care for and harvest your garden’s tomatoes. Trellising is generally only necessary for heirloom and other indeterminate tomato types. Indeterminate varieties of tomatoes are also called “vining” tomatoes. They will grow and […]
Watch this short video clip with Craig, the NC Tomato Man! Craig LeHoullier talks to Peter Kent, interviewer and Slow Food Asheville board member, about how the tomato seeds eventually known as Cherokee Purple showed up in his mailbox and where they journeyed since. This is a lovely chat and worth a few minutes of […]