So who is ready to grow some incredible cherry tomatoes??
We are giving away FREE Biodynamic Cherry Tomato Seeds!
If you have EVER been curious about gardening or are already a gardener I hope you join us! The goal here is to get as MANY people as we can to start learning how to garden. What better way to start than growing your own cherry tomatoes??
These seeds are over 20 years old and are the most genetically strong seed that we have. We took these seeds from our strongest plant in 2007 and made thousands of seeds from it. We harvested well over 2,000 cherry tomatoes from one plant and the taste of them was out of this world!
These seeds are from a plant that has been grown with Biodynamic principles, in the BEST soil, and with the most love for over 20 years. We are so excited to share these seeds with you all.
There is a special story behind these tomato seeds that I think you will all LOVE, but I’m going to save that story for another post. Right now, I want to explain the Biodynamic Cherry Tomato Challenge and get you all your FREE seeds!
When you sign up for the challenge we will send you your seeds in an envelope which will also have an instruction sheet. We will also send you e-mail updates on how you should be caring for your tomato plant and answering any questions that you may have along the way. We want to help you grow this beautiful plant from START TO FINISH!
We will be posting updates on our growth and we will also be sharing other peoples progress as well. This is going to be such a great learning experience for all of us and we really want to establish a sense of community around this plant. Think about it for a second, a few hundred people growing the SAME type of plant with the SAME seeds, this is going to be SO MUCH FUN.
2010 Biodynamic Cherry Tomato Challenge!
1. Submit your name and e-mail address and a good address to send the seeds to
2. We will send out the seeds with instructions
3. We will keep you updated by e-mail, video, pictures and blog posts
4. WE WANT YOU INVOLVED! We would love to get progress pictures from you!
5. PLEASE PLANT SEEDS IMMEDIATELY! 
6. Seeds must be started immediately, Sunday March 28th is the LAST day to start your tomato seeds for optimal growth!
If you are committed to learn how to garden or you just want to grow the best cherry tomatoes ever:
PLEASE FILL IN YOUR INFORMATION ON THE SIDE BAR TO THE LEFT!
We have some AMAZING people in the health conscious community joining the 2010 Cherry Tomato Challenge!
ANTHONY ANDERSON
We have Anthony Anderson from rawmodel.com joining us! Anthony has a clear passion for gardening. I am so humbled by his efforts on truly creating heaven on earth by starting his own food forests. He is going to be an amazing asset to this challenge and I truly think he will grow a monster cherry tomato plant! This guy makes lovely raw chocolate truffles, I have heard SO many good things about them and I cannot wait to order some! Anthony keeps us all updated on his blog at www.rawmodel.com
Angela Stokes-Monarch and Matt Monarch
These two people have had a HUGE impact on my life and I am very excited and proud to have them be part of this Cherry Tomato Challenge! These two great souls help thousands of people each and every day and they truly inspire me to want to do the same thing. The passion that they have for raw foods, natural health and the raw food community is immeasurable. They keep us informed on how to live a raw and healthy lifestyle with the raw food world tv show and they make the healthiest foods on the planet available to us at their online store, the raw food world – Angela and Matt are creating an incredible garden and food forest of their own in Ecuador! I cant wait to see its progress and I will surely be keeping an eye on the raw food world tv show to see ALL of the updates.
Frank Giglio!
Frank is a classically trained chef who incorporates whole foods, holistic healing practices, superfood nutrition and herbal medicine into his food preparation. He is no stranger to gardening and its going to be exciting to see his results working with these seeds. Frank lectures about his food preparation practices in the United States and Internationally. He keeps us all informed on his lecture dates and food practices on his blog and he also keeps our dishes interesting with his spices!
Mo from Sweet Peas Podcast!
I was informed that Mo would be taking care of the gardening projects this year! Mo is the other half of Sweet Peas Podcast along side her mother Lisa Marie. They both create a weekly podcast about sustainable living, superior health, and developing a new relationship with food. Together they have interviewed leading health motivators like Matt and Angela Stokes Monarch, Anthony Anderson, Philipp McCluskey, and one of my favorites, Daniel Vitalis! Every week they offer a new, refreshing, and fun loving interview to their archives. To listen to their podcast and check out all of the amazing information, go to Sweet Peas Podcast!
Lori Painter!
Lori is a mother, a blogger, a raw foodie, a gardener and a lover of life. She is also SO much more than that. Lori shares her good times and bad times with us through her wonderful blog and teaches us about self empowerment and personal development. This girl is on such a quest to learn about herself, improve herself however she can and help others along the way. She shares so much valuable information with us all and I think she is someone that we can all learn a lot from! We are so happy to have her join the challenge!
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
I believe that we can all become the hope of the world. One garden at a time we are healing the earth. We also heal ourselves through gardening, its really an amazing relationship. I’m really excited about this challenge as a whole, but I am even more excited about the beginning gardeners that will be joining us. For the first time they will understand the connection that a gardener has with their plants. It may sound silly, but you begin to form such a STRONG bond with your plants. You wake up and think about them immediately. Wondering if they are getting enough sun, water, and nutrients. They really become like a child or a pet, its really cool to form that relationship!
Lets have fun with this everyone!
Thank you all for making it happen -
Curt
F.A.Q.
I live in a city, and I don’t have a yard. Can I still join the Challenge?
Yes you can join, we encourage INSIDE growers. The first 3 generations of this seed were grown indoors! As long as you have a southern facing window, you can keep this plant almost all year around!
I dont live in the United States. Can I still join the Challenge?
Yes you can still join, but we first have to make sure its legal to send seeds to your country.
I’ve never grown anything in my life and I don’t know how to garden. Can I still join the challenge?
Yes of course you can join! If you are curious about gardening and want to get your start somewhere, join the challenge. A master gardener with over 50 years of gardening experience is going to be giving advice in how to nurture your plant throughout the growing season. If you have any questions, there is an entire community of people growing the same seeds and they would love to help.
This cherry tomato plant seems to grow so large, will it be too much for me to handle as a first time gardener?
This plant can grow so tall, 15 feet is no small plant! Yes, you can handle a plant as large as this. Its really no different than caring for a smaller plant, you just have to tie the vines up from time to time. We can guide you in the best way to do that.
I’m usually really busy, will this be time consuming?
We hope so! Its always great to spend time with your plants. However, no, it is not so time consuming that you could not manage to take care of the plant. Its possible to spend less than an hour a week caring for the plant.
What should I be doing right away to get ready for the challenge?
Just start saving table scraps for your compost hill! You might even want to ask your friends or family to save their table scraps to help you gather a lot of material for your compost pile. Also save any grass clippings, leaves, and any type of manure.
What is a compost hill or a tomato hill and how do we build one?
We will send you instructions with your seeds as to how you grow the tomato hill. We will also send you a video showing you how we have built ours. You will get step by step instructions all along the way.
Do I have to build the tomato hill?
We GREATLY encourage you to build the tomato hill. This will help grow a superior plant and it will provide the tomato plant with superior nutrition and it will encourage its growth. Your friends,family, and neighbors will be astounded at the plants growth!
Isnt it expensive to send out so many seeds, how are you funding this?
It is time consuming and the postage and materials do cost money. All that we ask for is your willingness to learn and participation. But if you want to send a donation our way, we certainly would not turn down your sign of gratitude
_____________________________________________________________
**** Please only join if you are DEDICATED to the challenge and are willing to
grow the plant to completion! It would be a shame to waste these precious
seeds. THANK YOU ALL ****
________________________________________________________
Its been less than 24 hours since the 2010 Biodynamic Cherry Tomato Challenge has been launched and we are over 230 people!
We are getting an overwhelming response, thank you all so much!
{ 39 comments… read them below or add one }
Thank you for this precious gift!!!
Please send me an email so I can send my address.
Thanks you soooo much! I plan to grow mine in the upside down grower – think that will work ok? I love that you said the plant can grow indoors ALL YEAR LONG. WOW. Really? In what size pot? Now I am torn … upside down, inside, or in the garden area … hmmmm. So many choices!!!
I’m building my tomato ladder … collecting recipes in anticipation. Hoping in the end to donate a good quantity to a local food bank… I am excited to take this challenge.
All the best somewhere in Washington State… Thank you for teaching us all,
JoAnn
I am interested in growing some tomato cherry plants, but I don’t see where I put my info in the “sidebar”.
I’m in Louisiana and we are already planting. Would love to be a grower of your tomato seed!
Hi, I would love to have a chance to try out the cherry tomato plant in our garden this year. After taking a much to long hiatus from gardening, we started back 3 years ago. Things are coming along slowly but surely. We met a gentleman last week that is taking a permaculture course and he asked if he could use our yard as a project, as he isn’t in a spot right now where he can apply this to his own yard, so we are quite excited that he will be coming by this evening!
I’d like yo get the seeds from you to grow this tomato plant. Thanks for offering and for loving the planet Earth.
Yes Mary, you can grow this plant indoors all year round as long as you have a window that has southern sun exposure. We will be sending out enough seeds for you to grow one inside and out!
As for the size pot, a medium to large size will do. If you are a bit more adventurous, grow it outside and follow along with our method, your friends,family and neighbors will be stunned!!
JoAnn, thank YOU for joining the challenge and helping to bring gardening back to the people!
Darcia, thanks so much for your interest in the challenge. Please add your name and info in the form at the top of the page so we can keep in touch with you and keep you updated!
Hi Diane, the form is at the top right side of the page.
Jenny, its so great to hear that you’ve started the garden back up! Also, its very generous of you to let that fella use your land, everyone will benefit!
Ask and you shall receive! Just be sure to add your info at the top right of the site.
Count me in!
You rock!
This is adorable, important and inspiring. Thank you xo
@Kathie – YOU ROCK! Thanks so much for taking up this challenge. Its going to be SO much fun. Could you add your info at the top side bar please? This way we can keep in touch easier with updates!
Curt!!! This is THE BEST GIVEAWAY EVER. I am soooo excited to see my little ones pop thru the soil! Ill be growing these both in AZ and MN so it will be so fun to compare!!
Thank you brother! The generosity will come back to you tenfold!!!
How exciting! Me and my boyfriend will start a little veggie garden here on our balcony in Spain. I hope you can send the seeds all the way here. And that they won’t be radiated too bad on the way..
I filled in the info anyway
Awesome challenge, and you can be sure to get lots of photos!
How wonderful..thankyou for this generous opportunity. I am so looking forward to growing these tomatoes..I’m a newbie in the garden and am looking forward to this process of learning and sharing.
Hi Curt!
Thanks a lot for such wonderful gift! That’s gonna be my 2nd year of gardening organic veggies on the back yard. I did not succeed with tomato plant last year, and thats why I am so hyper excited to receive this wonderful tomato kit
How nice, I was thinking just in the morning whether I should plant tomatoes this year or not, and then, 2 hours later, I found your website by searching completly different things….definately, thoughts can materialize
)).
Please let me know how I can pay back the postal expenses including seeds.
You are doing amazing thing!!!!!
one more question. I just saw the post that you stoped accepting
.
participants to the challenge. Kindly let me know if I am lucky enought to get in :/. Please, even 2 seeds with instruction could be enought for me
Oxana,
Finland
Oxana, you made it in my dear – we will send out the seeds immediately, I’m not sure if you will get them in time to plant them by Sunday March 28th but still plant these seeds immediately indoors! Thanks so much for your interest
Curt
(no need to answer the question about donation, I have found the link already
Probably, was too excited and saw only “Subscribe form” on the right 
)
yahooooooooo!!!!!!!!
You made my day!!!!
Thanks a lot one more time, cant wait to receive the post and learn all the tomato secrets
I feel bad that we had to stop giving away the seeds. So now we will give away RAW biodynamic honey to **5** lucky people who opt in there name and e-mail address above. These people will be chosen at random!!
You guys will LOVE this raw honey!!
Hi Curt!
Spread the seeds of love!!
I’ve been dreaming of starting a garden at home for the past several months. I know tomatoes are going to be involved, and a siberian cedar, and several herbs and fruit trees. Our tomato plants always have trouble, but they’re also always planted in the backyard.
This is a great giveway
John
John, its so great to hear that you are starting your garden, this is the year to start!! We are going to be documenting a few gardens in the local area and hopefully inspiring people to start their very own garden and hopefully we can show some useful tips and tricks in the garden! Thanks for your comment John!
Curt
I’d like information on how to grow a small porch garden. I live in an apartment with NO yard available to me, but I do have a small east-facing porch. Problem is I live in Las Vegas, so about the middle of May thru end of August it gets REALLY hot on the porch (100-119 F plus). Morning sun comes thru the east windows but is gone by noon. Would inside work? Not much room and windows are only east and west. No south or north.
Carol my dear, maybe you could sneak your plants to your neighbors house after the sun goes away at noon??
Well the porch is just scorching! It really is difficult to get some good growth out of plants unless they have a southern facing window. How about in the fall/winter time? The porch conditions might be better but the sun is still the kicker. What advantage you do have is that you get the first 2 hours of morning sun which is really the most crucial, however 8hrs of sunlight is as well. It wouldnt hurt to try, right?
I’m so disappointed I didn’t get in on this in time. I think what you are doing is a WONDERFUL idea and so very, very generous!!! Good luck to all who get some seeds and I look forward to hearing/seeing how everyone is doing on this site.
Drats, almost got in on the cherry tomato challenge! Well I opted in so here’s hoping for some honey!
Peace,
Sam
Please send seeds to me
We are an American family and are living in Damanhur, an eco community in Northern Italy. With two other families we are about to start a co-creative garden with nature on land that was once the yard to the ancient village school. It has been loaned to us for our garden by the mayor and the Commune of Vidracco. I was delighted to find your site and will look forward to following the progress of the Biodynamic Cherry Tomatoe challenge. I am just about to sew our own organic, though not biodynamic seeds, using Maria Thun’s planting calendar. This will be our first garden in Italy!!! Wishing all of you other spiritual gardeners out there, a very fulfilling and connected year in the garden! Con voi (with you)
Betsy! Wow I love it!! What an INCREDIBLE mayor, loaning the land out so generously like that. The place in which you are living sounds incredible. I’ve traveled through Tuscany and the southern region of Italy but never up north. I hear its beautiful. Can I stop by if I’m ever in the area??
Is it possible to get a couple of seeds yet? I would like to try a plant or two in my organic garden this season. Thanks. Richard
This is so exciting! Thanks for making this possible. I’ve started a Photo Album of my Challenge on my FaceBook and there’s been a lot of interest in it. I’m curious to see how everyone’s tomato seeds do in the different parts of the country and world.
Stephanie! NICE, I like it. I’m excited to see all the different levels of progress too. Remember to join up on facebook, we will be posting a lot of pictures on there also!
Curt,
Thank you so much for the seeds. My cherry tomatoes are doing great!
{ 1 trackback }