Island Grown Harvest of the Month: Tomatoes

Island Grown Harvest of the Month is a program that highlights a locally available crop each month of the school year in school cafeterias, restaurants, and grocery stores. The goal is to help children, their care-givers, and the broader community experience healthy, seasonal, whole-foods based meals, while supporting local and regional farmers. Following in the footsteps of school districts in California, Oregon, and other states, Martha’s Vineyard is the first school system in Massachusetts to pioneer Harvest of the Month.

The first Island Grown Harvest of the Month is the tomato. Around here, there’s just no end to the beautiful variety of tomatoes – in all colors and sizes being grown on farms, in backyard gardens and, of course, in school yards. In honor of the crop of the month, the Edgartown School, route: {:controller=>"listings", :action=>"show", :id=>"the-edgartown-school"} --> held an heirloom tomato tasting where students compared generic tomatoes grown off Island to heirloom tomatoes grown at and