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Growing naturally since 1981
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MANY PEOPLE ASK US, "WHAT’S AN HEIRLOOM?"
Heirloom tomatoes are older varieties saved over generations—the type of tomato your grandmother may have grown, if your grandmother was the type to grow tomatoes. Heirloom seeds exist outside of the corporate seed company structure with its links to multinational chemical corporations. Farmers and small seed companies have worked to preserve them, ensuring diversity in our food crops. Diversity is important to protect our food supply against pests and disease. (Remember the Irish Potato Famine?)
An heirloom plant may produce fruits that vary in size and shape, but they are tomatoes that taste like tomatoes should! Because of their long harvest season, they are well-suited to garden production.
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Just a few of the over 100 varieties of heirloom tomatoes we grow.
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WHAT’S A HYBRID?
Hybrids are bred by cross-pollinating parent plants to produce offspring with desired characteristics such as resistance to disease, drought, pests or uniform ripening for machine harvest. Are all hybrids bad? No! Sungold, a bite-sized, tangerine-colored, early ripening cherry tomato is one of our favorites. The hybrids we’ve chosen have excellent flavor. We believe you deserve good tasting food!
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heirloom tomatoes.
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Boiling tomatoes—the first step in making salsa.
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Slice 'em, salt 'em, eat 'em.
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