ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —

For more than 50 years, Bernalillo County Master Gardeners have educated and shared their expertise and passed it on to the next gardening generation.

The 15th annual Albuquerque Tomato Fiesta, held this past weekend at the Albuquerque Gardening Center, is the biggest event for the Bernalillo County group, one of 15 counties with a master gardener. Teresa Edens is chair of the Tomato Fiesta.

"What people don't know is there are over 5,000 varieties of tomatoes," Edens said. "Now we don't have that many tomatoes here, but we decided about in 2007 that we needed to be out in the community, so we decided to do this, so we have tomato tastings of all our exotic tomatoes."

Edens said the Master Gardeners were ahead of their time, anticipating the growing interest in fres

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