Best Organic Heirloom Tomatoes in Adelaide

Tomatoes are a nostalgic fruit. Many of us have distinct memories of picking tomatoes in our childhood, wandering barefoot through the maze of tomato bushes to hunt for flashes of red. Maybe we have seen our own children reenact this, thrilled with the joy of discovering the ripe fruit.

There is nothing quite like a freshly picked tomato, sun-ripened and bursting with the taste of sunlight and vitamin C. It’s a guaranteed mood lifter.

But heirloom tomatoes are in their own category - their flavour goes back much further than the hybrid tomato varieties we’ve become accustomed to in the supermarket. These are the tomatoes that our grandparents ate - or at least, the tomatoes that would have been grown in backyards and preserved by people who knew they were part of a long tradition of original plant varieties. 

Their sweetness and depth of flavour is incomparable, and make them the star of a tomato salad with fetta and fresh basil, or slow cooked into the perfect pasta sauce. Whatever your preference, savour this opportunity to work them into your menu during their brief appearance in the seasonal fresh produce wheel.