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Heirloom Tomato Seedling Sale News

These are the varieties we have left for sale, not in any particular order.

Click on the names for a photo and description (*Frank's Recommendations)

Mr. Stripey	*Green Giant	Black Zebra	Brad's Blackheart	Black from Tula	Fred Limbaugh's Potato Top
Bradley	Nirvana	San Marzano	Indische Fleish	Southern Night	Brandywine OTV
1884	Mad Hatter	German Giant	Chocolate Stripes	Elmer's Old German	Ananas Noire (black pineapple)
Carbon	Dark Horse	Amana Orange	Tim's Black Ruffles	Brandywine Yellow	Schwarze Sarah (less than 15 left)
Big Zebra	Boondocks	Gigantesque	Aussie Heirloom	Brown's Yellow Giant	Hawaiian Pineable (less than 5 left)
Love Apple	Copia Zebra	Vinson Watts	Pruden's Purple	Kellogg's Breakfast	Spear's Tennessee Green
Mexico	Black Cherry	Black Sea Man	Chuck's Yellow	Aunt Ginnys Purple	Peacevine Sweet Red Cherry
Grape	*Black Plum	Orange Globe	Cherokee Purple	Tennessee Surprise	*Earl's Faux Pink Beefsteak
HillBilly	Amish Paste	Orange Cherry	Green Zebra	Grandfather Ashlock	Aunt Ruby's Green Cherry
Blue Fruit	Yellow Pear	BGF Orange	Red Zebra	Purple Brandywine	Aunt Ruby's German Green
Black Krim	Gold Medal	Paul Robeson	Dave's Double D's	*Cherokee Chocolate	Grandpa Pete's Polish Pink
Godfather	Ernie's Round	Purple Wonder	Livingston's Magnus	Livingston's Paragon	Ernies Plump (less than 15 left)

Tomatoes that we have also include Ed's New Millenium and BGF's Yellow Giant.  There may also be a few odds and ends around as well we'll have these for sure.

Description

The BGF story Three years ago, our world had just undergone 5 cataclysmic catastrophes in just a short ten month time span.  We had the Pakistani Earthquake, The Box Cutter Day Tsunami, Hurricanes Wilma and Rita and of course, Hurricane Katrina.  Out of the outpouring of a sympathy for what the survivors of these events were left to cope with, some friends and I decided to create an organization that was designed specifically to help these victims' state of mind.  We figured that the Red Cross could handle the food, clothing and the cots and that FEMA could handle the portables and infrastructure issues but what good are cots if people can't sleep and what good is food if the people are unable to digest it?  So we started the Bountiful Garden Foundation to raise money specifically to treat post traumatic stress and we earmark our funds to organizations with scientifically proven stress reduction methods and techniques.  In our first year of operation, in 2006, we raised $10,000 for Hurricane Katrina relief and over the past three years, on top of money donated to treat trauma victims, we've donated thousands of dollars worth of produce and tomato plants to local bay area agencies, etc.

 

The idea is simple.  Sell excess produce at area Farmer's Markets and elsewhere and ear-mark 100% of the proceeds for Disaster Relief.  Rather than being the extravagant consumers that we've evolved to become over the years, at least we can provide some balance to the equation by becoming producers as well.

To help defray costs of booths, packaging, supplies, scales, equipment, etc. and to help ensure that we're able to maintain our 100% Farmer's market proceeds to charity guarantee, we have a tomato plant sale each spring (sign up on the left).  But we could always use more help so if you'd care to assist us, please donate.

We're Expanding

The Bountiful Garden Foundation is going nationwide and around the globe in 2009, and we hope to have at least 50 cities and over six countries with BGF operations running in them.   If you're interested in participating, please fill out the following form:

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