Whelp, we don't have a lot to say this week except one very anticipated announcement: Tomatoes are here. If you've been a farm patron for many years, you know how wild we go about tomatoes. If you're new to the JBG community, here's the gist: Every year we grow thousands of tomato plants of our very favorite, tried, and true tomato varieties. Tomatoes are a very labor-intensive crop to grow and harvest, but they are truly one of our favorite vegetables to offer. We get so much joy (and usually a few grey hairs) from our tomato season each summer. If you've ever had a homegrown tomato, you know just how superior they taste. We want you to enjoy this, too! Every year we run a Tomato Bulk Sale... this is our 13th annual! Through this online sale, you can reserve your portion of our tomato harvest... in bulk. Many of you have made sweet family traditions centered around our bulk sale - canning tomato sauce or making ginormous batches of salsa to get you throughout the year. Can 'em, freeze 'em, sauce 'em... whatever your tomato dreams may be, we're here to make them a reality. The Bulk Sale webpage is up as of Today!

Reserve your tomatoes through this link. As always, shoot us an email if you have any questions - farm@jbgorganic.com.

Happy tomato season, y'all! It's begun! Scroll to see a few of the tomato varieties offered in this year's sale.

Cherokee Purple tomatoes are our favorite heirloom to grow. These rank at the tippy top of the tomato-flavor scale. Their skin can range in hues from deep purple to blueish green, and when sliced open, the centers are dark red. Cherokee purple tomatoes are super sweet, and a very good choice for your inaugural BLT.

Green tomatoes! Before tomatoes are red, they're green! Chefs and home cooks love green tomatoes. Of course, they're perfect for breading and frying, but you can do so much more with green tomato. Roast them and incorporate them into a green salsa. Chop them and throw them in a curry. Green tomatoes are firmer than red ones, and so can stand up to cooking in a way that red ones can't.

The beloved San Marzano is a sauce or plum tomato. This Italian heirloom variety is known for its thick meaty flesh and relative lack of seeds ant water content. San marzanos are the queens of sauce tomatoes. If you want to try your hand at making marinara, or sauce to preserve, this is your tomato. For a quicker route, you can also peel and preserve these whole!

If you don't snack them all first, cherry tomatoes make a wonderful tomato to preserve, as well. One of our favorite ways to use these is to dehydrate or to slowly roast in an oven. A handful of dehydrated cherry tomatoes is a flavor bomb you can add to any pasta, salad, for frittata for seasons to come.

Stay tuned for infomration on our 2021 U-Pick. We've yet to set a date, but if you're signed up for our newsletter, you'll be the first to know.

Just an insider's peak into our tomato packing! Look at these beautiful orders of slicing tomatoes, ready to go for market! If you're unsure of what tomato to order in bulk, you really can't go wrong with a slicer. It's the workhorse of the tomato: Perfect for a BLT, or perfect to be blitzed into a sauce.

Tomatoes are ripening slowly right now at the farm, but here is a glimpse into what a harvest at the peak of the season looks like. Pray for us!