Multi-colored carrots
Heirloom eggplants
Colorful rainbow swiss chard
Back in 1997, when Sidehill Farm was still a homestead and oversized garden, our main crops were the ones we most wanted to eat: juicy, colorful heirloom tomatoes, and fresh, interesting salad greens. Today, in order to provide healthy food to our local community for as much of the year as possible, we grow more than 30 different vegetable varieties on 2 acres of cropland and in over 5000 square feet of greenhouses. Harvest day is a treat for both the taste buds and the eyes - purple, yellow, and orange carrots, baby bok choy, tender lettuces in all shades of green and red, plump purple eggplants, bunches of glistening beets. But for all the variety, we are still known for the quality of our early greenhouse tomatoes, summer heirloom tomatoes, and nearly year-round salad greens.
Mary and Emi accept their prize for guessing the correct ripening date of the first tomato. Note that it is still intact.
Three seconds later...