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Bums describes his heirloom tomatoes’ as having “absolutely blow your socks off flavor, no relation to the tomatoes you’ll find in the store. “Vine ripe” (in the store) means the tomatoes started to color on the vine, then picked, then gassed (with ethylene gas) to ripen them and then shipped to you. I use no synthetics whatsoever.”
Bums grows twelve different varieties of lettuces on his farm. He lovingly described some of them: Llorarossa as “a frilly lettuce reminiscent of a flamenco dancer’s skirt,” sangria as “a rosy, crispy butter crunch,” and hermosa as simply “a red leaf lettuce.”
Also available are twenty different medicinal herbs, and dozens of culinary herbs, including eight different kinds of rosemary, six kinds of thyme, four kinds of sage, and five kinds of basil.
While the quantity is not that large, the selection is high.
A few people can get a lot of different things,” Burns explains.
More than just retail, Bums see his farm as “a learning center for people .”
Over the years, Burns has
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