Backyard Farms tomatoes will be back in stores from Maine to New Jersey in October, after the Madison grower shut down for a month to accommodate upgrades by new owner Mastronardi Produce. The ...

Ashley Randle, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, holds up one of the contenders in the "heaviest tomato" category. (Arielle Gray/ WBUR) Commercial tomato growers ...

Summer menus are densely enriched with heirloom tomatoes. These unusual varieties, originally a backyard crop that has now been commercialized, are grown from the seeds of hundreds of nonhybrid ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) Tomato fans turned off by today's waxy, bland tomatoes can find the tastier ones of old at a growing number of New Jersey roadside stands and tailgate markets, thanks to a project ...