Heirloom Tomato Farmer Finds Beauty In The Ugly Tim Stark was a management consultant when he stumbled into heirloom tomato farming, as he describes in Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Farmer ...

You tomato growers know how the first tomatoes off your plants, at the beginning of the sacred season of the "love apple," can often show up "ugly." Heirloom tomatoes, especially, take that ...

In late summer and early fall, beautifully ugly heirloom tomatoes are at their best. It’s fun picking out the gnarliest, knobbiest specimens to sample — the more misshapen, the better!

Heirloom tomatoes are not a specific variety. Instead the colorful, sometimes "ugly"-shaped treats refer to naturally pollinated seeds that are carried over season to season such that you're ...

If you didn’t know its background, you’d never buy an heirloom tomato. They’re downright ugly, seemingly the anti-tomato. It requires marketing smarts to get these puppies out the door.

If you didn’t know its background, you’d never buy an heirloom tomato. They’re downright ugly, seemingly the anti-tomato. It requires marketing smarts to get these puppies out the door.

To enjoy tomatoes most simply, sprinkle with a dash of salt and a drizzle of olive oil. Intensify their flavor by slow-roasting at 200 degrees for four to six hours until reduced to about half ...

Browse the produce section of local grocery stores, and among the large displays of firm, round, ripe red tomatoes, you’ll often find a puny display selling some sickly-looking, flattened, ...

The fact is, squeezing an heirloom tomato isn’t the best way to tell if it’s ripe, said Paul Mock of Mock’s Greenhouse and Farm in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.

Tim Stark was a management consultant when he stumbled into heirloom tomato farming, ... Heirloom Tomato Farmer Finds Beauty In The Ugly Published August 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM EDT Facebook; ...