Tomatillos & Ground Cherries

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* (aka husk cherry, cape gooseberry)(Physalis pruinosa) About the closest we can come to real tropical fruit flavor from our northwest garden! Related to the tomatillo, ground cherries are low growing plants that produce an abundance of fruit about the size of a large marble enclosed in...

(Physalis philadelphica) The ubiquitous sight of the monocrop cornfield we have all grown accustomed to is truly a construct of modern industrial agriculture. The traditional cornfield, or milpa, consists of a loosely intentional and diverse mélange of plants growing in and amongst the maize. In this system, the wild greens...

(Physalis ixocarpa) This unique tomatillo comes from the Mexican town of Malinalco, about 70 miles southwest of Mexico City. Elongated, tapering fruits ripen to bright yellow and are much sweeter than most tomatillos with a flavor somewhere between a tomatillo and the sweeter more tropical notes of a ground cherry....