O’Neill: Beefstake tomatoes for Grandpa Bob’s birthday (column)

Casey O’Neill is a farmer and owner of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mendocino Voice. If you’d like to write your own column for The Mendocino Voice, send your idea to info@mendovoice.com.

I love the sweet consonances in life, the times when funny alignments happen like a clue on the path. Yesterday we were planting tomatoes in the beds in the orchard down at Pops’. He asked me what varieties, and upon hearing that one of them was Beefsteak he commented that Grandpa Bob used to grow Beefsteak. I responded that I remembered this and that was part of the reason for growing them this year.