A Washington-based heirloom tomato festival begins giving away plants next week for its annual celebration.
Free tomato plants will be given away to people interested in growing heirloom tomatoes May 17 through May 31 in three locations - Soap Lake, Ephrata and Moses Lake - to kick off the annual TomatoFare 2009, taking place Sept. 6 at the White Heron Cellars Winery near Quincy, Wash.
Soap Lake-based TomatoFare founder Martin Ringhofer said the region is ideal for heirloom tomatoes. He estimated 1,000 plants would be given away.
Ringhofer said his goal is to increase the popularity of the tomato varieties and provide a new product for the area. In the past four years, he said, the region has become the largest producer of heirloom tomatoes in the Northwest, producing 50,000 pounds of tomatoes in the last two years.
Call Ringhofer and wife Jennifer at 206-784-5920, Moses Lake-based Jerry and Gene Prentice at 509-765-4495 or Ephrata-based Mary Catherine and John Koppang at 509-787-1305 to make arrangements to pick up tomato plants.
- Matthew Weaver
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