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 ...

Tim Stark was a management consultant when he stumbled into heirloom tomato farming, as he describes in Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Farmer. (Tip: The ugliest tend to be tastiest.) Now his ...

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 ...

Today, heirloom tomatoes are practically everywhere, with more and more beautifully ugly varieties popping up on restaurant menus, seed catalogs and farm stands every summer.

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! Mix a ...

One farmer said he used to lose 25 percent of his heirloom tomatoes to damage by customers.

Indeed,the Ugly stems from an heirloom variety that was the backyard tomato of Garagiulo, a Naples tomato packer that's one of the biggest in the country. "It's the one we grew for ourselves and ...

I climbed on the trend and grew heirloom tomatoes this season. I thought “crop failure” — these guys will never be tomatoes. The fruits are crazy, the opposite of all notions of tomatoes. It ...

Tim Stark was a management consultant when he stumbled into heirloom tomato farming, as he describes in Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Farmer. (Tip: The ugliest tend to be tastiest.) Now his ...