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.
Tim Stark
Photograph Courtesy of Tim Stark
Tim Stark on gourmet.com
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Oozers Are Losers
And I think I can safely boast that I have the most beautiful compost pile in Berks Count, Pennsylvania this time of year.
10.10.07
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- ingredients,
- produce,
- tim stark,
- tomatoes,
- farming
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Food with a Farmer's Face
With a little time to spare, I made the best batch of pesto I could from ingredients in my field and around the house.
07.31.07
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- tim stark,
- cooking + technique,
- farming,
- agriculture,
- produce
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Knucklehead Farmer, Act 2 ...
A perfect ear of unsprayed sweet corn is one of the great rewards of farming the way I do.
07.17.07
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- farms + fish,
- produce,
- tim stark,
- corn
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From Table to Farm?
Kudos to New York City Greenmarket farmer Morse Pitts, of Windfall Farms, for following all the way through on an environmentally A-plus idea.
07.05.07
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- tim stark,
- sustainability,
- new york,
- environment
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From Table to Farm?
Kudos to New York City Greenmarket farmer Morse Pitts, of Windfall Farms, for following all the way through on an environmentally A–plus idea.
07.05.07
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- sustainability,
- environment,
- slow food,
- tim stark
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Hundred Percent Grass-Fed Beef
Here's a picture of Patrick Robinette's Senepol cows in a North Carolina meadow, pausing from a round of grass chewing.
06.26.07
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- tim stark,
- ingredients,
- meat,
- slow food,
- farming
food politics
Much More Than Just Manure
Here is green manure number one, a lovely purple wisteria-in-miniature-like flower whose fragrance brings to mind anything but manure.
06.21.07
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- tim stark,
- sustainability,
- farming,
- environment
food politics
From the Journal of a Knucklehead Farmer
In my graduating high school class, I was voted "least
likely to become a knucklehead farmer."
06.19.07
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- tim stark,
- farming,
- sustainability
food + cooking
De Jesus On Guard
Meet the mighty lettuce deity, de Jesus (pronounced day hay Zeus). De Jesus stands guard over my lettuce to protect it from the free–living counterculturists.
12.07.06
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- culinary culture,
- tim stark,
- produce
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