The Beauty of Ugly Food: You Won’t Believe How Much Edible Food We’re Wasting

‘After harvesting a bounty of organic tomatoes, the workers at Sage Mountain Farm in Aguanga, Calif., gathered around a table to grade them into four categories: uno (one), dos (two), aguado (mushy), and compost. Only a handful of moldy tomatoes went into the compost. Everything else had a use.

Sage Mountain Farm is unique. They sell the number-one grade tomatoes to wholesalers or retailers like most farms do. They also sell the number-two grade tomatoes, since they are perfect quality with nothing wrong aside from slightly small size or odd shape. Even the mushy ones have a future as sundried tomatoes. But on many farms, these tomatoes would go to waste.’

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