MONTREAL – The sweetest, juiciest tomato I’ve eaten in a while is a mammoth yellow-and-orange Striped German heirloom that was planted in August and picked a few weeks ago in a glassed-in garden above Highway 440 in Laval by a woman wearing a white laboratory jumpsuit and blue paper slippers.
What? Local tomatoes in November?
Weeks and weeks after the last field tomatoes of the season disappeared from gardens and farmer’s fields around Montreal, a crop of heirloom and specialty tomatoes is ripening on the vine at a new one-acre rooftop greenhouse that sits above a decor outlet near Carrefour Laval. The greenhouse belongs to Lufa Farms.
The idea of great-tasting tomatoes outside of those few short weeks of summer is so exciting to Montrealers that more than 3,200 people have already signed up for the company’s weekly vegetable boxes, which are distributed at 200 drop-off points around the city.
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