Greetings Tomato Lovers!
This is a special blog post, regular readers of my blog please excuse the intrusion.
If you are new here, you most likely landed here from a search engine looking for information about the Ramapo tomato. Perhaps you even found out about it from the NY Times article and are looking to buy some. You aren’t alone! Unfortunately the NY Times left out the name of the farm featured in the article, and as a result our home has been inundated with calls from people wanting the tomato.
Unfortunately at the moment the Ramapo isn’t ready yet and it won’t be until sometime next week (Mid-August). When it is ready you’ll be able to buy it at Springdale Farms in Cherry Hill, NJ. This is the farm featured in the NY Times article. However the farm is not equipped at this time to ship the tomato, which means you’ll have to come in person and buy them. Because of the local demand for them, you may actually be hard pressed to find any Jersey farms that are shipping them.
To find out more about the tomato you can visit Rutgers, who are responsible for bringing back this “lost” Jersey variety. They also have a listing of Jersey farms growing the tomato where you can purchase them. If you are a gardener or grower, there is also an order form on the site to purchase seeds for your own garden.
I now return to my regularly scheduled blog!
You are soooo unfair to tomato lovers everywhere!!! Sounds as if I need to plan a flight to my daughter’s or just salivate from afar! I’m just glad our local farmers’ market is Monday. They look sooo good! Sure hope you are a tomato lover!
How long will the season last? I’m supposed to be flying in around the end of August? Do I need to step up my plans? Thanks Dustin.
Ramapos should go well into september. Stop by, I would love to meet you!