Among Berks-area growers, heirloom tomatoes are must haves. Varieties such as oxheart and early girl are prolific producers of juicy, red fruit. But, there are more than 7,500 varieties to choose from ...

Carroll County’s master gardeners may soon also be known as master bakers, as they cook up bread recipes featuring their prized heirloom tomatoes as the star ingredient. The gardeners are preparing ...

Farmer Bobbi Chase makes a colorful splash in blue jeans, blue T-shirt and blue bandana as she moves through dark green rows of heirloom tomatoes at Clark Farms, a small family grower in rural ...

Craig LeHoullier loves tomatoes. Not in the pass-me-the-spaghetti-sauce sense as much as in the gardening sense. He is the tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, the Iowa-based nonprofit dedicated ...

Carroll County Master Gardener Marty Hankins picks an oxheart tomato, one of many varieties of heirloom tomatoes she grows in the garden at her home in Hampstead Wednesday, August 10, 2022. The ...

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some thirty years of first-hand knowledge of growing, tasting and cooking with heirloom vegetables. A staunch supporter of ...

Green zebra, Cherokee purple, red Robin and tumbling Tom sound like names from a children’s book, but to gardeners, they sound delicious. These are a just a few of the 600-plus varieties of heirloom ...

A colorful tradition continues in Santa Rosa on Sept. 10, when 2,200 people are expected to attend the ninth annual Kendall-Jackson Heirloom Tomato Festival. They will be able to sample the 175 ...

Sometime during the spring, backyard food growers will decide what kind of tomatoes to grow: heirlooms or hybrids. Hybrid varieties have had the benefit of genetic tinkering that allows for some cool ...