In the picture above are he tops or shoulders of ripe heirloom tomatoes starting clockwise Starting top left Striped German, Pork Chop, Paul Robeson and Pink Berkeley Tie Die. The picture belo is the bottoms of the same ripe tomatoes.   This week we harvested…

The vegetables are invading.  Our refrigerator is full, as you might expect, but it doesn’t stop there.  They have long since taken over our waking thoughts and sometimes sneak into our dreams [last week I dreamed of harvesting bananas].  Now they are slowly filling the…

  Heirloom tomatoes are the prima donnas of the farm.  They are fussy.  They are high maintenance.  But we put up with them, because they are so vastly superior in taste.  We’ve had a lot of folks turning up at the farmers market who know…