Fall 2024 - Week 1

As the summer heat finally starts to wind down, our tomato production winds up! Our plants are looking bushy and healthy with plenty of green tomatoes growing on them.

Local residents and our team have begun to harvest more and more as well! All tomatoes harvested the other day went to our local Community Food Fridge in First Presbyterian Church.

A handful of green tomatoes were picked as well — These can be placed inside brown paper bags in cool, dark places to ripen up over time! This lessens the chance of animals getting to them once they’re ripe on the branch. Also, if you want them to ripen faster, place them upside-down and throw an apple or banana into the bag with them—these fruit produce an ethylene gas which acts as a ripening hormone that helps the tomatoes mature faster!

And finally, our onions continue to grow like crazy, and more have sprouted than what we first planted!