Heirloom Tomatoes News

I recently spent a fine weekend getting up close and personal with a quarter tonne of bovine manure.

If you're a careful diner, you might have noticed the term compression attached to a fruit that's featured in your dish or dessert.

Ashley Porcelain Doll / China Doll Regal Doll Collection 1920's. Brown hair & green eyes, 16" tall.

The menu is “prix fixe,” which is a collection of predetermined items presented as a multi-course meal at a set price.

Skip and Silas Paul of Wishing Stone Farm in Little Compton, RI have been grafting tomatoes for over ten years.

Seed choice is a crucial part of a developing a healthy food system. Rochester Roots has made the decision to grow heirloom varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers for the following reasons: Can be traced back from fifty -to thousands of years through oral or written history and are linked to people, places or history.

With the high price of groceries these days it is satisfying to be able to grow your own choices of delicious vegetables and hearty herbs.

The CSU Denver Extension Master Gardener Plant-A-Palooza Plant Sale fundraiser has long been known for heritage tomato transplants in addition to modern tomatoes, basil, perennials and annuals.

Brooklyn Police descended upon a Lefferts Avenue apartment building this Wednesday, responding to a report that there were marijuana plants on the building's roof.

The South Windsor FOOD Alliance is to hold its first plant sale on May 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The sale is to be held on the grounds of the Community Center, 150 Nevers Road.

Mother Earth offered an exotic selection of organic mushrooms, priced from $4 for a basket of button mushrooms to about $10 for black trumpet mushrooms.

Christine Ciccone waters some of the plants she has grown from heirloom seeds. She is selling the plants to raise funds for NAMI DuPage.

Cynthia Sandberg, owner and farmer of the well-known Love Apple Farms is giving a free seminar on "Grow Better Tomatoes" on May 11 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Wallenberg Community Garden, Cottle and Curtner Avenues.

The Salt Lake Tribune) Third-graders from McGillis Elementary School feed grass to chickens during a field trip to Wasatch Community Gardens to Tuesday May 7, 2013 in Salt Lake City.

Will Reed examines an heirloom tomato plant in one of his fields off of Lumpkin Avenue.

The London Heritage Farm prepares to host its sixth annual plant sale in time for Mother's Day this Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12.

As the weather turns warm and I start thinking a lot more about heirloom tomatoes than hearty winter roasts, my palate also turns to lighter wine varieties.

SunPatiens, a form of impatiens that is sun and heat tolerant as well as resistant to downy mildew, a mold that destroyed many impatiens in Berks and other areas last year, are creating a buzz among growers and gardeners.

Steve Ford takes pride in his heirloom tomatoes. He grows them in community plots and climate-controlled "tunnels" at his South Conwell Street home in Casper, where recently planted seedlings and future transplants sit in a 6- by 8-foot greenhouse.

Jump start your garden with this special.... gallon tomatoes buy 1 for $6.95, buy 2 for $12.00, or 4 for $20.00. Be the first to have tomatoes from your garden! Varieties are Supersweet 100's, Big Beef, Brandywine , Early Girl, or Roma.