Want to see some of our tasty, sweet, colorful, juicy heirloom tomatoes? There’s some video of our heirloom tomatoes up at the Kama‘aina Backroads website.

These are amazing tomatoes. They’re the kind of tomatoes people dream about. When you watch Richard slice into them and see what they look like inside, you can almost taste them.

Our friends at Kama‘aina Backroads, of course, are exploring the Big Island bit by bit. Along the way they are documenting some of the interesting traditional, cultural, and other Island ways of life we enjoy here. The Kama‘aina Backroads television program is broadcast throughout the state on Time-Warner’s OC-16, where it reaches more than 800,000 households.

That’s a lot of households that got to watch Executive Chef Bill Heubel, of the Sheraton Keauhou Resort & Spa, work with and display our heirloom tomatoes to their best advantage. By the way, black Moloka‘i salt – who knew? If your answer was, “Not me!” go watch the video. (I didn’t know about it, either).

Watch the video to the end and you’ll see a bit of what it looks like here at Hamakua Springs Country Farms, and see and hear Richard talk about how he got started in farming.

Have a look! —posted by Leslie Lang