On a sunny, southern-facing slope in Pennsylvania, at Eckerton Hill Farm, Tim Stark grows, among other things, a mean (i.e., glorious) tomato and a mean (friggin’ hot) chile. When he’s in the right mood, he sometimes plays a mean (egregiously bad) fiddle. Tim’s writing has appeared in Gourmet, Organic Gardening, Alimentum and elsewhere. His memoir, Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer, is due out in 2008 from Broadway Books.