What’s Your Favorite Tomato?

Rain date: August 25
Blue Skys Farm, 35 Pippin Orchard Road, Cranston
Learn about and taste the results of the farm’s 2013 Tomato Trials. The Trials were conducted in with URI Extension as part of a grant funded by SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education).  Christina Dedora and Blue Skys Farm raised over 100 tomato plants in high tunnel (unheated hoop house). Yield, soil analysis and tissue culture were monitored. The delicious tomatoes were sold at farmers markets beginning at end of June.

Christina has made a career of growing flowers, herbs and vegetables. Blue Skys Farm rents 2 acres of farmland owned and protected by RI’s DEM and managed by Southside Community Land (SCLT).  Six other farmers collaboratively manage the 50-acre property. Blue Skys Farm sells at farmers markets, via a Consumer Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Farm Fresh RI’s Market Mobile.

This Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (CRAFT) workshop  shares farmer experiences and best practices between farmers, farm workers, apprentices and gardeners. These workshops are free to everyone thanks to a generous Farm Viability grant from the RI Department of Environmental Management’s Division of Agriculture which seeks to enhance farmers’ ability to grow and market their crops. Registration is not required.