Short, useful notes from Bob: what is ripe, how the stand works, why we grow organic, and how to use what you bring home.
Field note
We run a small organic farm stand out of our urban farm in North Nashville. A couple days a week we set up out front with whatever's ripe - heirloom tomatoes, sweet peppers, and more as the season rolls. You pay with Venmo or cash, first come first served, and the exact address goes out by text.
Field note
This week at our North Nashville urban farm stand: green tomatoes for fryin', plus ripe Black Krim, Big Beef, and Cherry tomatoes while they last. Roma, sweet peppers, baskets, seconds, roasted sunflower seeds, and starts are coming later. Address goes out by text - join the list or text TOMATO to 615-212-9394.
Field note
We grow four tomatoes on our North Nashville urban farm, and each one has a job. Black Krim is the smoky slicer, Big Beef is the classic sandwich tomato, Cherry is the snack that never makes it inside, and Roma is your sauce and paste tomato. Here's how to pick the right one.
Field note
A season share is a simple deal: you prepay once, and through the season you get first pick of whatever we're harvesting from our North Nashville urban farm - tomatoes, peppers, and more as it comes in. It supports the farm up front, and it gets you the best of the harvest before the stand even opens.
Field note
We grow organic - no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers - on our small urban farm in North Nashville because we actually eat this food, and because how you grow something is most of what it tastes like. It's more work and smaller yields, but a tomato picked ripe from clean soil is a different thing than one bred to survive a truck.
Recipe
Fried green tomatoes are firm, unripe tomatoes sliced thick, dredged in cornmeal, and pan-fried until golden and crisp. You need green (unripe) tomatoes - ripe ones are too soft. We sell green tomatoes at our North Nashville stand as a special ($2.50/lb), so you can grab a bag and have these on the table in 20 minutes.
Field note
Porch pickup lets you order fresh tomatoes and sweet peppers from our Nashville garden and grab them off our porch. Text what you'd like to 615-212-9394, we reply with a pickup time and the address, and you pay by Venmo or cash. Simple, local, and in season.