Joe catching some air

Joe Schirmer of Dirty Girl Produce has taken Tomato Watch into his own hands! We had intended to cover the details of dry farming this week, but on Tuesday we received an email from Joe and shortly after that a video he shot himself of his tomatoes being planted. How cool is it to see the process of farming through a farmer’s eyes?

Joe’s email:
The first tomatoes are going out tomorrow at noon. We wanted to wait for the brunt of this heat wave to pass first. So we disked, listed, composted, ripped and now we are watering and we will till the beds in the a.m. and start planting after lunch. Hopefully we will be done planting the first wave Thursday and I will try to remember my video camera and get as much as possible.

Joe’s video:

It was our intention from the beginning to give farmers a space to connect with their community in a more direct forum and in their own voice. So it pleases us to no end to get email reports, pictures and now videos directly from our farmers.