(Janice Stevens – Wilson Street Urban Farm) Everyone who has a garden grows tomatoes. I am no exception. We usually grow them on a grander scale than most, cutting back in recent years to around 50 or so plants when we were on the farm. As homeschoolers, all our gardening and canning was considered a part of our curriculum – home ec, phys ed, biology, chemistry, math, etc. On our pantry shelves in October one could find homemade pizza sauce, ketchup, whole tomatoes, the best tomato soup you’ve ever tasted, dried tomatoes, and in the freezer would be the tomato paste I needed for next year’s recipes.
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