the honey eater » vegetables http://thehoneyeater.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:08:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 From dad, with love http://thehoneyeater.com/2009/07/from-dad-with-love/ http://thehoneyeater.com/2009/07/from-dad-with-love/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:01:34 +0000 naomi http://thehoneyeater.com/?p=65 from dad with love

Last summer, I sent my dad some heirloom tomato plants from an organic farm in southern California. This summer, I received a box from FedEx, opening it up as I climbed the stairs to my apartment, I used my keys to cut the tape.

box

It contained two tomatoes, swathed in bubble wrap, juicy and soft. This was the only plant that survived the winter, and it began taking over my parents’ backyard over a month ago. When the first fruit started to appear, we weren’t sure what color it would end up being: would the tomatoes be purple when ripe? Red? White? As it turns out, they remained green.

little tomato

Thanks dad!

big mofo tomato

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