Record #:

29915

Author(s):

Smith, Chris

Abstract:

Slow Food Asheville picked the Cherokee Purple heirloom tomato to spotlight for its 2017 Heritage Food Project. In 1990, Craig LeHoullier of Raleigh, North Carolina, obtained and grew a packet of unnamed seeds that had been shared by the Cherokee Indians more than one-hundred years before. The tomato is purple in color and has gained a widespread fame amongst heirloom tomatoes.

Source:

The Laurel of Asheville (NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 13 Issue 8, August 2017, p104, il

Subject(s):

Seeds; Plants; Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--Food ways; Gardening--Wilmington