Farmer Explains: What Makes an Heirloom Tomato

Long Season Farms opened its doors last year, and though owner Ken Jurow planted five times the amount of crops he did last year, he's already sold out.

Why? People love his heirloom tomatoes.

Jurow grows over 30 different varieties of heirloom tomatoes inside his five greenhouses on Main Road in Jamesport. The former stock market trader and carpenter who got into farming full-time last year says tomatoes are "such an integral part of everyone's summer experience."

But what makes an heirloom tomato an heirloom tomato? Jurow explains here.