|
Saving Cherished Slow Foods, One Product
at a Time
Valencia Tomato
This round, smooth fruit with a brilliant orange uniform color weighs around 8-10 oz. It is a midseason indeterminate tomato that grows well in northern and cooler climates (about 76 days). It is a family heirloom from Maine. Some say it is called “Valencia” because it looks like a Valencia orange, while others suspect it came from Valencia, Spain. It is not one of the famous heirlooms. This may be because it doesn’t have an unusual color or shape – the qualities that make other heirlooms so attractive and photographable. Yet it is hard to find and is a threatened variety.
The tomato has an excellent, full, complex tomato taste, with a great balance of acidic and sweet. It is meaty and rich with few seeds. It has been described as bursting with flavor, rich and buttery as well as pineapple-like, sweet and refreshing, like a really ripe ground cherry.
Seed Sources
Winslow, ME
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
955 Benton Avenue
Winslow, ME 04901
877-564-6697
www.johnnyseeds.com
Dickson, TN
Marianna’s Heirloom Seeds
1955 CCC Road
Dickson, TN 37055
615-446-9191
www.mariseeds.com
Carmel, CA
TomatoFest Homegrown Seeds
P.O. Box W-1
Carmel, CA 93921
www.tomatofest.com
Click here to search for Ark producers via LocalHarvest.
Click here to return to the full
list of USA Ark of Taste Products.
|
