Yellow wax beans, basil, baby beets, dahlias, cosmos, garlic, two crates of mixed heirlooms, and seven crates of mixed cherry tomatoes – brown berry, snow white, super sweet 100, yellow pear, and of course sungold. I picked last night until i couldn’t see down the row in the gathering darkness, and then got up with the sun to pick again.

I felt pretty good about all this around 8:30, standing in front of a nice full table at market with iced tea and a biscuit. But now, I think need a nap. Big time.

Usually, it’s the root crops that have really rad and interesting deformities – carrots, potatoes, turnips, and the like. Growing in the soil they run into other roots, run into rocks, run into one another, and whatever conventional shape they were taking (a cylinder, a sphere) changes course and becomes something exceptional (a dauschund, a lizard). At Mountain School we once made a village of carrot people.

But here we have this tomato.

Too great to eat. Too great sell. I have no idea what would cause this type of growth. But maybe I’ll save the seed and see if it can be replicated.