Heirloom: Notes From an Accidental Tomato Farmer
by Tim Stark
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used Good
- ISBN 10
- 0767927079
- ISBN 13
- 9780767927079
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Synopsis
Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life.Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and writing unpublished short stories by night. One evening, chancing upon a Dumpster full of discarded lumber, he carried the lumber home and built a germination rack for thousands of heirloom tomato seedlings. His crop soon outgrew the brownstone in which it had sprouted, forcing him to cart the seedlings to his family's farm in Pennsylvania, where they were transplanted into the ground by hand. When favorable weather brought in a bumper crop, Tim hauled his unusual tomatoes to New York City's Union Square Greenmarket, at a time when the tomato was unanimously red. The rest is history. Today, Eckerton Hill Farm does a booming trade in heirloom tomatoes and obscure chile peppers. Tim's tomatoes are featured on the menus of New York City's most demanding chefs and have even made the cover of Gourmet magazine.
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- Bookseller
- Firefly Bookstore LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 278244
- Title
- Heirloom: Notes From an Accidental Tomato Farmer
- Author
- Tim Stark
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0767927079
- ISBN 13
- 9780767927079
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- July 2009
- Pages
- 240
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening/Fruits and Vegetables;
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