Tomato Competition at Derailleur - Published 8th December 2017

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Café Derailleur’s Tomato competition has started! Here’s a bit about it, you know, how to enter where to go for judging, that sort of stuff.
So what do we want to achieve from the tomato competition?  We’d love to see more people growing their own food and we’d be really excited if our kids got involved in food production and cooking at home.

Let us know if you have any barriers to growing a few tomatoes in your back yard.  Do you need someone to do some digging for you?  Are you renting and felt the landlord won’t let you dig up a small part of the back yard?  Always get Fruit Fly and need some strategies to deal with them?  Going away and need your plants watered?

We use a heap of tomatoes at Café Derailleur.  Which is great because we source all our tomatoes from Peter and Annie Ross in Yarrawonga.  Yes they are hydroponic and yes that’s a compromise but life’s full of those right now.  We use Peter and Annie’s tomatoes to make our own chutney and we have a cracker smoked tomato dish with smashed avocado (from Greta!).

If you would like to put in a school entry then please download this flyer to spread the word.
Thanks to Richard Cornish for putting the Tomato Competition idea in my head while we were cooking at the Wangaratta Farmers Market!

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