We have been blessed this year at Farm & Table! For the first time since we opened, we have received locally grown tomatoes all year long! That’s right: gorgeous, summer-ripe tomatoes in the middle of winter! What made this blessing possible this year? Two of our amazing year-round farms have taken on the monumental task of growing greenhouse tomatoes – and we are eternally grateful!
From November till February, Jemez Valley Live kept us flush with heirloom tomatoes from their greenhouse in the Jemez valley, and now Silver Leaf Farms in Corrales has completed their own greenhouse as well. Thanks to them, now we can get wintertime tomatoes from just a stone’s throw away!
Finding tomatoes outside of the summer months is a rarity, so I asked Elan from Silver Leaf why we don’t see more farms growing greenhouse tomatoes. Elan says that there are a few factors: there is the financial investment to consider, as well as the learning curve involved with growing indoors. But the bottom line, he thinks, is that growing tomatoes indoors is a trend that just hasn’t quite caught on yet. Bravo, Silver Leaf, for being the trend-setters that you are! We are proud to your pioneering endeavors!
Stop by Farm & Table to try our summertime-fresh tomatoes all year round!