Maker Β· Vegetables
Harvest House: Dutch flavour tomato at scale
A growers' collective of over sixty Dutch glasshouse operators. For your kitchen that means the same flavour tomato from the Dutch greenhouse, week in, week out.
The story
Who's behind it
Harvest House is a growers' collective: a cooperative of over sixty Dutch glasshouse operators. In the latest count that's 62 growers. They grow fruiting vegetables, with tomato as the core of the range. The volume of dozens of businesses comes together under a single quality standard. You order from Jimmy Loves Food, and behind that one line on your order sits a network that delivers all season. So you can put a tomato dish on the menu and count on the fruit arriving as good in March as in August.
Why this tomato
The first point is flavour selection. The Pearls of Taste line consists of six truss tomato types selected for flavour and sugar content. With oil and salt, the tomato can go straight on the menu.
The second is sustainability at scale. 55 per cent of the area runs on non-fossil heat, such as geothermal and waste heat. There's also a separate organic growing line. You get a Dutch greenhouse tomato with a lower footprint than a gas-heated greenhouse, with the same flavour and reliable supply.
In your kitchen
Put the source on the menu: Dutch greenhouse, growers' collective, grown on non-fossil heat. Use these tomatoes in dishes where the tomato is the lead, such as a salad of cherry truss tomatoes or a dish of confit truss tomatoes. Tell your guest in one sentence where the tomato comes from.
If you cook with the seasons, you can move with the line: the sweetest types in summer for raw uses, the sturdier truss tomato in cooler months for oven and pan.
Chefβs tip
Store these tomatoes at room temperature, above 12 degrees. That way they keep their aroma and the flesh stays firm. When ordering, ask for the current Pearls of Taste type: the line shifts with each harvest and the sweetest types come in summer.
How to use it
Ideas for your menu
Tomato salad
Cherry truss tomato, good olive oil, sea salt, basil. The sugar in the tomato gives the flavour.
Confit truss tomato
Slow in the oven with thyme and garlic. Concentrates flavour for pasta, on toast or alongside grilled meat.
Cold tomato soup
Ripe truss tomatoes with few additions. Because they're grown for flavour, you need little else.
Charred cherry tomato
Halved cherry plum tomato quick under the salamander, alongside fish or lamb. Warm, sweet and sour in one bite.
For your menu
βCherry truss tomato from Pearls of Taste (Harvest House, Dutch greenhouse)β
Products from Harvest House
What we carry from this maker
Cherry truss tomatoes, Pearls of Taste
Small truss tomato with high sugar content, Harvest House's main flavour tomato. Standard in the JLF range.
Cherry plum tomatoes
Elongated mini type within the Pearls of Taste line. Firm bite, intensely sweet.
Flavour tomatoes by season
Shifting with each harvest. Ask for the current Pearls of Taste types.
Prices and availability are in the portal. Become a customer or log in to order.
Taste it in your own kitchen
Book a no-obligation tasting with Niels and taste it for yourself.