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About First Field

We’re a small company focused on exceptional tomatoes and ingredients, and if you’ve ever had a pizza topped with our Crushed Tomatoes or a bowl of pasta with our Marinara, you know the difference that effort makes. Our tomatoes come from New Jersey farmers that share our commitment to honest growing practices and supporting soil health for future generations.

We’ve also met some other growers along the way in our tomato journey, and you can also now find our Cranberry Sauce using ripe berries from a multi-generation family berry farm, and Heirloom Pumpkin Puree, made with a blend of local and Oregon pumpkins.

This Eastern climate makes growing field-grown food organically a real challenge, and every year we learn more about what the best techniques are for us and our growers. We’ve even received two USDA grants to help us research new methods of growing tomatoes organically and adding value to our state’s most famous fruit.

The most impactful way we have found to truly lower inputs and protect soil health is with better seeds. Our ongoing seed trial, in collaboration with an exceptional plant scientist, is yielding open-pollinated, non-GMO seeds that can withstand the heat waves, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes that have hit our area, in higher frequency than ever before. And yet, the tomatoes are still there, with exceptional flavor, color, and yield.

Not only do our tomatoes perform in both home and professional kitchens, but they also perform for our growers, even in the most uncertain of weather events. Which means lower inputs all around. And, open-pollinated seeds mean they can save their seeds, lessening dependence on large seed companies who they often buy from year after year.

We hope you find the same enjoyment in First Field products that we find in bringing them to you.

But what if you could have that Jersey tomato terroir year around, grown by local producers, processed by a small, family-owned business, with taste and quality second to none, distributed at scale to retailers and restaurants within a few hundred-mile radius, and available online to the rest of us who don’t have the privilege of living in or near New Jersey? Well, the good news is that you can, and it goes by the name of “First Field”
Mark Winne