At brewery, crops – and youth – taking root
Too blemished for eating, these tomatoes are ripe for squishing as a group of teens extracts the seeds for next year's crop at Victory Brewing Company's organic garden in Parkesburg.
The overripe tomato quickly surrendered to the boy’s strong grip, its insides spurting out in multiple directions, ultimately landing in a colander below. Initially, only one participant in Chester County’s Evening Reporting Center (ERC) program, an initiative of Pocopson Township’s Chester County Youth Center, had accepted the challenge of tomato-squishing, but as others witnessed the fun, they soon joined him. The goal: saving the heirloom…