Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer PDF
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This book has been optimized for viewing at a monitor setting of 1024 x 768 pixels. H E I R LOO M NOTES FROM AN ACCIDENTAL TOMATO FARMER TIM STARK BROADWAY BOOKS NEW YORK published by broadway books Copyright © 2008 by Tim Stark All Rights Reserved Published in the United States by Broadway, an imprint of The Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.broadwaybooks.com broadway books and its logo, a letter B bisected on the diagonal, are trademarks of Random House, Inc. The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge the following for permission to reprint material in this book: Excerpt from “Blackberry-Picking” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. These essays have appeared in slightly different form in the following publications: “Groundhog Days” and “The Misunderstood Habenero” in Gourmet. “The Tomato People” in the Washington Post. These essays were read in slightly different form on the following program: “The Tomato People” and “A Farm Grows in Brooklyn” on NPR’s This I Believe. Book design by Judith Stagnitto Abbate/Abbate Design Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stark, Tim. Heirloom : notes from an accidental tomato farmer / by Tim Stark. — 1st ed. p. cm. 1. Stark, Tim. 2. Tomato growers— Pennsylvania—Biography. 3. Tomatoes—Heirloom varieties—Pennsylvania. I. Title. SB349.S73 2008 635'.642092—dc22 [B] 2007048075 eISBN: 978–0-7679–3006–2 v1.0 FOR MY MOTHER AND FATHER Contents A Farm Grows in Brooklyn.........................................................1 A Brief History of Farming at Eckerton Hill .............................. 7 Tomato People ........................................................................ 39 Once Upon a Sugar Snap ........................................................ 94 Harvesting the DMZ .............................................................105 The Misunderstood Habanero ................................................116 Among the Mennonites ..........................................................128 Truck Patch ............................................................................ 147 Groundhog Days .................................................................... 153 Abu Groundhog Revisited ...................................................... 159 Dead of Winter ...................................................................... 172 So You Think You Want to Be a Farmer? ................................ 177 Acknowledgments .................................................................. 231
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