What’s the matter with tomatoes sold in Boston?

What’s the matter with tomatoes sold in Boston?

They taste like chalk …

What’s the matter with tomatoes sold in Boston?

…because they’re grown industrially as little green golf balls…

What’s the matter with tomatoes sold in Boston?

… and low-tech ethylene gas is applied on the way to Boston.

Tomatoes are imported from weird places.

Californiahas no water

Tomatoes are imported from weird places.

Florida has no soil

Tomatoes are imported from weird places.

Other tomato regionsof the world have dubious labor and environmental practices

We want more locally-produced tomatoes!

The goal: produce 50% of our tomatoes within New Englandby 2060

Brian M. Donohue Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies Brandeis University

We want more locally-produced tomatoes!

This requires supporting the success and growth of local tomato farmers

Let’s “high-tech” the localtomato chain together!

RESTAURANTSAND CHEFS

UNIVERSITYCAFETERIAS

FOODTRUCKS

RETAILERS

TECHNOLOGY

Welcome to the Internet of Tomatoes Project!

PRODUCTIVITY No disease Maximum yield Right water Right heat Right soil Right light When to harvest

Goal: ReconcileProductivity and Taste

HEALTHY Lycopene

SAFE Minimize chemicals

TASTE Sweet Acid Low

watercontent

Salt

Our local farmers are going high-tech… Monitoring Environmental Conditions

RootStress

Leaf Stress

Temperature

Humidity

SoilCondition

Gas Concentration

Local chefs and consumers are also going high-tech…

Evaluating Tomato Chemistry

Sugar Acid

SaltWater content

GasesRedness31st BostonTomatoContest

We’re building a Star Trek™-like “Tomato Tricorder”

Learn everything youwant to knowabout that Tomato…

…withoutdestroying it!

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Join us to make Boston the hub of thenext technology revolution: Ag-Food-Tech

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