By Danny Thompson
Imagine, a single genetic line guarded closely, it’s secret passed quietly from generation to generation while the masses are blissfully unaware of the simple yet profound truth.
No, it’s not a best-selling novel or blockbuster movie.
It’s the history of the Heirloom Tomato.
By Danny Thompson
How do you grow great tomatoes?
Well, in order to really get a feel for the perfect environment, let’s take a trip back in history, to the origins of the Tomato.
Because to grow a successful tomato, we must think like a tomato.
By Tomato Queen
You would think that the tomato would have been lustily embraced by my people, the Jews, since they first popped them into their mouths.
Now a thriving staple of
By Michelle Fabio
We know tomatoes as juicy, tasty, and simply delicious, but it wasn’t always this way.
The tomato is said to have been around since as early as 700 A.D. growing wild in the Andes of South America and cultivated by Incas and Aztecs; somehow tomatoes eventually ended up in Central America, and when the Spanish began colonizing America, they took red, seedy fruit to the Caribbean, the Philippines, Asia, and, of course, Europe.
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