Love Heirloom Tomatoes? This North Bay Farm Helped Introduce San Francisco to the Delicious Fruit

Matt Dolkas - MALT

By Matt Dolkas, Senior Manager, Marketing

June 28, 2023

Chances are Janet Brown and Marty Jacobson know more about heirloom tomatoes than you do. The husband-and-wife team behind Allstar Organics has been growing the vibrantly colored nightshade fruit in the unincorporated Marin County community of Nicasio for 30 years—long before heirloom tomatoes became common in this country.

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