Boston Globe: Ugly Tomatoes Produce Marinara Students Will Enjoy

11/10/2015
By Ann Trieger Kurland

BROCKTON — Boxes of Massachusetts-grown tomatoes, blemished, bruised, and misshapen, sit in a chilly storage room at food processor Boston Fresh here. Most shoppers would likely deem them unappealing, though they’re perfectly safe to eat, with flesh that’s dense and sweet.

This season alone, Medford food entrepreneur Karl Dias has bought 150,000 pounds of these flavorful but ugly types and trucked them to the processing house. They have come from a half-dozen local farms as close as Ward’s Berry Farm in Sharon and as far away as The Bars Farm in Deerfield…

Read full article here.