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Hmm, is their really no such thing as an honest-to-goodness Jersey tomato?
"Someone will probably have my head for saying this," said Gary Ibsen, an organic tomato farmer in central California. "But to my mind, what the Jersey tomato has going for it is the legend, and the loyalty, and the rest of it is just the pronounced flavor of any tomato that’s picked ripe and not shipped around the continent."
For the record, I spent my first 18 years in New Jersey, and I don't remember being surrounded by particularly succulent 'matoes. But this new Ramapo variety, which is really a revival of a old hybrid seed that generations of Garden Staters before me seem to remember quite fondly, has me so intrigued that I'm scheming to get a growing operation going here in Brooklyn. (Photo thx Umesh)
Jul. 23, '08
farming, food, food policy, Ramapo tomatoes, tomatoes
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