The Perfect Tomato
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Cynthia Sandberg, Farmer, Entrepreneur & Teacher, Love Apple Farm
It was a soggy wet winter, that broke a bone-dry years-long drought, that capped off three dreary years of pandemic.
But Spring did arrive, and with it the hope of new life bursting forth out of the soil with great shouts of joy. “Hallelujah! We are alive!”
And we are alive, too! So we head out into the garden and pull back all the dead and dying of winter, throw it into the compost pile, and then get down on our hands and knees to turn the soil and prepare it for the planting of some perfect tomato plants.
Since Spring arrived so late this year, we find ourselves to be way behind the on the business of planting. So instead of planting seeds, we plant starts that have been given a head start on the season by the trusting hands of those who were thinking ahead on our behalf. And since they were thinking ahead, surely we can ask them:
What is a perfect tomato?
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