Midsummer Thin-Sliced
Simple, urgent, and fleeting—maximize midsummer’s fleeting peak with thin-sliced tomatoes, salt, oil, and basil on crusty bread.
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Recipe Vault
The Recipe Vault celebrates the harvest as it unfolds—by season, not by ingredient availability. Here, recipes honor heirloom tomatoes at their peak and through their full life cycle, offering time-tested methods to enjoy them raw, cooked, fermented, or preserved. Every recipe is field-tested in home kitchens, emphasizes seasonality, and invites thoughtful extension: fermenting pepper-tinged greens, drying strips of brined flesh, or folding cured skins into sourdough. Knowledge travels from seed to table, preserving flavor and tradition.
Late Harvest Jam
Preserve the last green tomatoes of season into a complex, savory jam—sweet, spicy, and smoky with deep umami undertones.
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Roast & Preserve
Low-and-slow roasting intensifies flavor and shrinks volume without scorching—ideal for preserving small- to medium-sized heirlooms.
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Seed-Core Sourdough
Turn tomato trimmings into sourdough starter food—infusing bread with subtle fruitiness and boosting fermentation activity.
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