Amy Goldman is preserving the agricultural heritage and genetic diversity of heirloom fruits and vegetables.

Amy Goldman is pleased to announce that her new book, The Heirloom Tomato, has been awarded the prestigious American Horticultural Society’s (AHS) 2009 Book Award.

Amy’s previous book, The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower’s Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes, and Gourds, was named the American Horticultural Society’s 2005 Book of the Year. It was also a James Beard Foundation Award Nominee.

Melons for the Passionate Grower, another of Amy’s publications has received much acclaim, including: The American Horticultural Society’s 2003 Annual Book Award; the Garden Writers Association of America 2003 Garden Globe Award of Achievement; James Beard Foundation Award Nominee/Reference Books category; and the International Association of Culinary Professionals nomination for Best Design.

Adrian Higgins celebrates tomatoes with a past in the Washington Post

Deborah Madison weighs in on heirlooms in the Santa Fe New Mexican

Valerie Sudol pays homage to heirloom beauties in the Newark Star Ledger

Seed preservationist loves tomatoes in the Poughkeepsie Journal

Tomatoes the Way They Were in the Washington Times

Killer Tomatoes in the East Hampton Star

Back to the seeds in amNewYork

Marilyn Bethany champions the real tomato in Rural Intelligence 

Tomato Time in the Baltimore Sun

Margaret Roach “thinks tomatoes”

A Love Affair with Pomme d’Amour in the Poughkeepsie Journal

Heirlooms: A way of preserving the past in the Hartford Courant

Always hands in dirt in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Gardener champions heirloom tomatoes in the Des Moines Register

Guru to tomato at Talk of Tomatoes

The Tomato book is easily my favorite at The Fruit Blog

Web Pick of the Week!

A starred web exclusive review (and Web Pick of the Week!) for Heirloom Tomato in Publishers Weekly!

by Katy Kieffer, Food Arts, June 2008

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“Feast for the Eyes; Squash Resplendent, Making a Serious Point,“

by Adrian Higgins, The Washington Post (November 25, 2004).

“Carve the Pumpkin, Eat the Squash,“

by Florence Farbicant, The New York Times (November 24, 2004).

“Things of beauty,”

by Valerie Sudol, Star-Ledger (November 18, 2004).

by Jane Garmey, Town & Country (October 2004) As shown in Town & Country magazine, October 2004. To subscribe, call 800-289-8696.

In July, I visited Amy Goldman in her Hudson River Valley garden. Knowing of her love for melons (her 2002 book on the subject is a classic), I wanted to find out more about her other unlikely passion: squash. Goldman has now come out with The Compleat Squash (Artisan; $40), which reveals her encyclopedic expertise on everything from obtaining heirloom seeds to growing and harvesting miracle squashes and pumpkins. Read more →

By Sarah Kinbar, Garden Design, (Sept/Oct 2004). Download acrticle

New York Times Letter to the Editor (August 27, 2003). Read more →

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Footage from “The Victory Garden” courtesy of PBS station WGBH Boston.