Tag: varieties of tomatoes
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Preserving the Harvest–Heirloom Tomato Sauce
An abundance of tomatoes freshly harvested from the vine or carefully picked from a local farmer’s market is a beautiful thing. Tomatoes are the number one crop grown in American backyards, and anyone who has enjoyed a just-picked tomato, ripened on the vine and still warm from the sun knows why. It’s a food memory…
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Meet a Few of My Buds!
It is definitely an early spring at Cowlick Cottage Farm. This morning, I harvested the shallots that I planted last fall…a full month early. Those beautiful, pink orbs are taking a sunbath right now, drying out a bit. Harvesting them is fun. Just take a trusty trowel and insert it deep under the entire shallot bunch.…