{"id":156,"date":"2019-08-16T02:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2019-08-16T02:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:12:17","slug":"where-do-those-beautiful-tomatoes-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Where do those beautiful tomatoes come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have to admit my limitations.\u00a0 Not often, but sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190729_133943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190729_133943-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190729_133943-300x279.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190729_133943-768x713.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190729_133943-1024x951.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190729_133943-624x579.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Tomatoes are one of the crops I&#8217;ve considered growing.\u00a0 The local auction prices for tomatoes often far exceed the cost of tree fruit.\u00a0 It bothers me that something planted as a seed in the spring can be worth more than the fruit of a tree that needs to be tended its entire life.\u00a0 So it sometimes seems like easy money to grow tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Except that we buy our tomatoes from Daniel Lapp.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel is an Amish neighbor.\u00a0 He grows the most beautiful tomatoes around, and uses the proceeds to help support his large family.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t deliver the tomatoes for us, but secretly we all enjoy the trip over to Daniel&#8217;s house to pick them up.\u00a0 Driving past the well-tended gardens and farm buildings, the children always greet us with bare feet and a smile, and quickly and efficiently sort the tomatoes and load the car for us.\u00a0 All transactions are cash.\u00a0 Our prices are largely fixed through the season despite volatile auction prices, and we have never had a disagreement with him.<\/p>\n<p>I could not grown a better tomato myself, and why should I try?\u00a0 Daniel makes an honest living from growing food.\u00a0 Just like I try to do.\u00a0 I&#8217;m happy to help support him and his family.<\/p>\n<p>So the next time you buy a Shaw tomato, please know that it is not a Shaw tomato.\u00a0 It is a Lapp tomato, and you are helping to support a good family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I have to admit my limitations.\u00a0 Not often, but sometimes. Tomatoes are one of the crops I&#8217;ve considered growing.\u00a0 The local auction prices for tomatoes often far exceed the cost of tree fruit.\u00a0 It bothers me that something planted as a seed in the spring can be worth more than the fruit of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}