By Mindy McIntosh-Shetter

My husband and I have always had a love hate relationship with gardening.

He is a professional chef and I have a degree in agriculture.

One may think that farming and cooking would go hand in hand but that is not always the case.

When we first got married, I started my tomato plants from seed and tenderly cared for my little seedling. They were my children. I counted down the days until I could plant them in the garden but…. When one lives with a city slicker just having a garden can be a challenge.

I followed my local areas Read the rest of this entry »

By Michelle Fabio

For Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d share my own tomato love story, or how I fell in love with the tomato.

There are more of these stories published at Gary Ibsen’s TomatoFest website, which inspired me to think about my earliest memories of eating and enjoying the beloved tomato.

Food memories always tend to hold of lot of comfort and nostalgia for times past, but nothing reminds me more of my childhood than a tomato fresh out of the garden.

Indeed, if you ask me the perfect way to eat a tomato, I would say Read the rest of this entry »