FARM UPDATE: NO TOMATO BLIGHT AT GARDEN OF EVE

I know we've all pretty much written off the tomatoes by now, having heard so much in the news about farmers burning entire fields of tomato plants throughout the northeast. A New York Times article even said:

"On Thursday morning, Chris Walbrecht, co-owner of the organic farm Garden of Eve in Riverhead, N.Y., on Long Island, found the first signs of late blight on a row of 800 Early Girl tomato plants; he said he might have to destroy them all, a major blow to the farm's finances."

But wait! Turns out, we'll be getting tomatoes after all. There is no blight at Garden of Eve.

According to Eve: "Chris was misquoted in the NYT and they made it sound like we have been hit by the plague... our tomatoes do not have late blight, we just had a Cornell coop ex person come out to our farm and verify. So we are optimistic. However, you never know what the weather will do over the next few weeks, we will have tomatoes but it is likely to be a shorter season than usual."

So there you have it. Dust off those tomato recipes and get ready, the season is about to begin!