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Discover & Appreciate Heirloom Tomatoes

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Heirloom tomatoes provide flavor to many dishes. Learn more in this free educational video series.

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Tags: gardening, organic, garden, growing, tomatoes, produce, farm, farming, heirloom

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Summary: Gardeners and farmers have cultivated heirloom tomatoes for their excellent taste and color. Heirloom tomatoes are purported to be tastier than hybrid tomatoes and can be easily reproduced true to type. That is to say that if you save the seeds of an heirloom tomato and plant them, they will (contrary to hybrid tomatoes) produce the same tomato plant and, consequently, the same tomatoes. Year by year you can grow your own tomatoes without having to buy a new plant when the old dies. If you would like to learn more about heirloom tomatoes, how they taste and how to cultivate them, you can learn from one of our experts.

In this free video series, learn about heirloom tomatoes from our expert. Tom will teach you all about heirloom tomatoes, how they taste, and what type of food goes best with each type of heirloom tomato. Learn about the various heirloom tomatoes, such as black (purple) tomatoes, yellow tomatoes, rip green tomatoes, bicolor tomatoes, orange tomatoes, red heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and sport tomatoes. In this free video series you’ll learn how to cultivate heirloom tomato seeds.

About the Expert

Expert: Tom Ashley has been farming organically at Dancing Bear Farm in Leyden, MA since 1981. He has trialled over 200 varieties of heirloom tomatoes and is trying to cut down to fifty. In the spring, he supplies tomato and other starter plants to garden centers in the Boston area and down on Cape Cod.
Other crops include garlic, onions, leeks, lettuce, potatoes, sweet and hot peppers and, of course, pumpkins. His short movie, The Peace Pumpkin, was shown at the 2004 New York Independent Film & Video Festival.

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