I dedicated my first novel Garden Variety to Ed Mosman, the Garden Master of Ocean View Farms (OVF) organic community garden. Ed, who passed away on February 8, 2024, was the hub around which the wheel turned at OVF.
I recently attended the Ocean View Farms tomato tasting celebration 2019 and ate my way through more than 70 varieties of tomatoes to help determine the best of the best.
People ask me about my community garden plot a lot, I guess because I don't post photos from it. Most of the pictures you see here on Gardenerd are from…