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How to Love (And Store) Heirloom Tomatoes

Summer veggies (or fruits, rather) are something special here in Kentucky. They’re here and gone in a flash, and we savor every moment while they’re at the peak of freshness. At the top of our list: heirloom tomatoes! Allow us to wax poetic briefly here; there’s just a certain kind of magic you can’t replicate […]

A Love Letter to Tomatoes

Summer veggies (or should we say fruits) are something special here in Kentucky. They’re here and gone in a flash and we savor every moment that we can to enjoy them at their peak of freshness. At the top of our list are, perhaps unsurprisingly, tomatoes. Allow us to wax poetic briefly here; there’s just […]

Growing Your Vegetables: Farm Tour, Part 4

Stepping away from the greenhouses, high tunnels and intensive-greens beds that we looked at in last week’s farm tour, we will look south and west to the produce production fields. Some years, we would have to hike north and east to see the same vegetables. Their placement depends on our eight-year crop-rotation plan. Remembering back […]