
Organic Tomatoes
We choose our organic tomatoes for flavour, trialling, testing and tasting until we find the best varieties.
This week we're packing Racymo tomatoes
They’re sweet, with deep flavour and very juicy. Local isn’t always best! Many tomatoes are grown under heated glass out of season, at huge environmental cost. When we can’t grow tomatoes at home without heat, we truck over naturally sun-ripened ones from our grower Paco Locano in Spain. In a project with Exeter University, we discovered that this uses just a tenth of the carbon compared with growing them in the UK, using heat.
From the same family as the potato, the tomato was originally brought to Europe from its native home in South America by the Spanish.

Country of origin
Grown in- Spain
How to prepare
Extremely versatile - use fresh in salads or use in sauces, soups and savoury dishes. Dry them to use in winter or use green tomatoes in chutney. Try making your own fresh salsa by chopping them, adding red or fresh onions and a green herb and well as a squeeze of lemon, vinegar and a bit of sugar, salt and pepper. It’s great with tortilla chips or on a courgette fritter.
Storage
Delivered from our farm, so wash before cooking. Best kept out of the fridge and on a cool veg rack. Underripe tomatoes can be kept at room temperature, very ripe in the fridge - but bring to room temperature before eating for flavour.
Class
Our tomatoes are sold as class 2. This means that they might not look cosmetically perfect, but they are grown for the very best flavour.
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tomatoes recipes
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Roasted cherry tomatoes on the vine
Serves: 6 Total time: 20 min
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Green tomato chutney
Serves: 4 Total time: 2h
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Braised onions with sundried tomatoes, rosemary, pine nuts and feta
Serves: 4 Total time: 55 min
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Courgette and tomato soup with basil croutons
Serves: 4 Total time: 45 min
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Chicken paprikash with tomato and cumin rice
Serves: 2 Total time: 30 min
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Tomato and White Bean Panzanella
Serves: 2 Total time: 30 min