{"id":46089,"date":"2013-12-17T00:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T08:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=46089"},"modified":"2013-12-17T00:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T08:06:02","slug":"rebellious-women-gain-national-notice-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/46089","title":{"rendered":"WINNERS!! Rebellious Women Gain National Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRebellious Women <\/a>T-shirt WINNERS are Faith, Deborah, and Fiona:<\/p>\n

Faith perrino-DuBois<\/cite><\/em> said on 12\/11\/13 at 2:32 am:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAdorable! I\u2019m planning to grow the kind that\u2019s juicy, red and doesn\u2019t involve slave labor or chemicals! Heirlooms, preferably \u2026 (sm)\u201d<\/p>\n

Deborah McKissic<\/cite> said on 12\/11\/13at 6:59 am:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMy little tomato growers would agree! I garden with my grandkids\u2026little Colt who is two and a half and Miss Lyra, who is 4 and a half..they love tomatoes! We grow them and eat them fresh from the garden\u2026nothing but organic..what else would you feed them? Their favorites are one from my friend, Lisa, the seedwoman at Amishland Seeds\u2026.little white rabbit..a sweet, little, almost white, round tomato\u2026and Miss Lyra\u2019s favorite\u2026\u201dsweet pea\u201d(Baker Creek heirloom seeds) her nickname\u2026they grow in clusters like grapes\u2026blueberry size..perfect for picking and eating from \u201cGrammie\u2019s\u201d gardens and their own raised beds..oh, we love our tomatoes! Organic and non-GMO seed..OMG!! I wear a size medium teeshirt but a large is nice for sleeping in\u2026love what these women are doing\u2026the little white rabbit and sweet pea tomato pack a flavor for such small gems\u2026no garden is complete without a few \u201cto-MAH-toes!!”<\/p>\n

Fiona said<\/em> on 12\/11\/13 at 9:29 am:<\/cite> <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI love making tomato sauce from home grown tomatoes. It\u2019s great on homemade ravioli. Last year our Romas did really well, and I\u2019m planning to grow even more this year. I wear a size large (probably from eating all that ravioli!).\u201d<\/p>\n

Congrats!!! Watch your inbox for an email from the farm.<\/p>\n

And our original text for the contest on 12\/11\/13 was:<\/p>\n

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At first glance, you wouldn\u2019t cast Janie Burns and Susan Medlin as rebellious women intent on disrupting a market. But the two leaders of the Idaho-based Tomato Independence Project (TIP) are raising a rather seedy ruckus that\u2019s caught the eye of acclaimed food journalist and sustainable agriculture luminary, Ruth Reichl.<\/p>\n

Reichl, former editor-in-chief for Gourmet<\/em> magazine, restaurant critic for the New York Times<\/em>, and co-producer of PBS\u2019s \u201cGourmet Diary of a Foodie,\u201d noticed the group\u2019s t-shirt on a recent trip to Idaho. She liked the rebellious design and manifesto (\u201cEnd the Tyranny of Tasteless Tomatoes\u201d) so well, she decided to include it in an upcoming \u201cThings I Love\u201d feature on her popular website\u2019s 2013 Holiday Gift-Giving Guide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a fantastic opportunity to sow the seeds of tomato independence by selling t-shirts to fund the rebellion,\u201d said Janie Burns, an Idaho organic farmer.<\/p>\n

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\"Tomato\"<\/p>\n

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“We wanted to find a tangible way for people to participate in growing the local food economy in the Treasure Valley [Boise, Idaho, area]. When researching what it will take to meet our goal of having 20% of our food consumption be local by 2020, we found that\u00a0the average American eats over 90 pounds of tomatoes per year. That\u2019s a lot of tomatoes! And nothing tastes better than a tomato fresh from the garden in the summer, and nothing worse than a rock-hard tomato in January … We\u2019ve decided to make it our goal to have as many people as possible grow and\/or eat local, fresh tomatoes in 2013. To start things off, we\u2019re going to partner with local nurseries to provide \u201cTIP kits\u201d to anyone who wants to participate. These kits will contain things like seeds, growing instructions, the TIP logo, etc.”<\/p>\n

Show your love for homegrown tomatoes (and locally grown food) and support the project with this 100% ring-spun organic cotton t-shirt. You can order t-shirts online at tomatoindependenceproject.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

The back of the t-shirt says “End the Tyranny of Tasteless Tomatoes.”<\/p>\n

Modeled here by the lovely MaryJanesFarm design studio crew: Karina Overfelt, Megan Rae, and Saralou Houlihan, who want you to know:<\/p>\n

We ARE doing it! (Ending the tyranny.) Join us in telling it like it is. We have three T-shirts ready to go\u00a0under your tree this year. All you have to do is tell us in a comment below what variety of tomato you plan to grow this coming summer and what size T-shirt you’d like. We have one S,\u00a0one M, and one L to give away.\u00a0Karina is modeling the SMALL, Megan the MEDIUM, and Saralou the LARGE (clockwise from top). In five days, we’ll pull three names from our apron pocket and let you know who won!<\/p>\n

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Rebellious Women T-shirt WINNERS are Faith, Deborah, and Fiona: Faith perrino-DuBois said on 12\/11\/13 at 2:32 am: \u201cAdorable! I\u2019m planning to grow the kind that\u2019s juicy, red and doesn\u2019t involve slave labor or chemicals! Heirlooms, preferably \u2026 (sm)\u201d Deborah McKissic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great_finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}