What's Growing at Roots & Wings: Tomato Bob

We are excited about the upcoming season. We have scoured through the many seed catalogs, marveled at the beautiful vegetables inside, narrowed our selections down and now we wait with anticipation for them to arrive. While waiting, we recently received a generous gift that makes us very excited for the growing season.

​Tomato Bob is a family-run seed farm located in Hilliard, Ohio that has been growing for over 20 years. They offer high quality, unique heirloom seeds to local areas and they ship to various farm communities across the midwest. Tomato Bob and his family believe in helping farm communities as well. For the 2022 farming season, the family has donated various vegetable seeds to our Urban Farm, Roots & Wings. Thank you to Tomato Bob and his family for their contribution to our youth development through urban agriculture! ​

Jamie Zimmerman, our Board Vice President, is to thank for this new connection. Jamie and Bob are long time friends who bond over a shared passion of farming and gardening. Bob has been a mentor to Jamie, sharing gardening guidance over the years, as well as selling seeds to her family. Tomato Bob regularly donates seeds to local, small organic farms in his home community, and when Jamie joined our board last year, she asked if Bob would be interested in supporting Roots & Wings.

Tomato Bob and family

The seeds donated to Roots & Wings include eggplant, radish, swiss chard, tomato, cabbage, arugula, lettuce, beet, honeydew melon, squash, carrot, and broccoli. To learn more or order your own seeds from Tomato Bob, visit their website. 

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Thank you to all who have purchased or donated a CSA share from Roots & Wings. We still have a few summer and fall shares available- details here. 

​Warm Regards, 
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Tedd, Program Director of Roots & Wings and Yatte, Urban Farm Manager at Roots & Wings