What Resources Does the Florida Tomato Committee Offer?

The Florida Tomato Committee website (floridatomatoes.org) is the industry body's public hub for Florida field-grown tomatoes, and it organizes its resources by audience: retail and food service buyers, growers, and everyday consumers. If you're a chef, buyer, or home cook looking for sourcing context, storage guidance, recipes, or seasonal information, the site covers those areas. It also handles regulatory registration for the 2026–27 season, which is a separate function from the consumer content.

Retail and food service resources

The site separates Retail and Food Service sections, aimed at two different commercial audiences:

• Retail — for grocery buyers and produce managers who need to understand and merchandise Florida tomatoes.
• Food Service — for chefs and food service operators who use tomatoes in volume and want product background and usage context.

Both sections sit alongside the site's broader promotion of Florida tomatoes as a seasonal, field-grown product harvested in the Sunshine State, rather than a year-round commodity. The site's own framing emphasizes that Florida tomatoes are "field-grown and freshly harvested," which is the core selling point these sections support.

Consumer-facing content

For general consumers, the site offers several content areas:

The Florida Chef and Kids Corner features serve distinct audiences — one geared toward cooking professionals or enthusiasts, the other toward children — which suggests the site deliberately spans from industry to household use.

Regulatory and registration resources

The site's Regulations section is where the Florida Tomato Committee handles industry compliance. As of the current site content, registration for the 2026–27 season is open. According to the site:

• You can register as a Tomato Handler, Repacker, and/or a Certificate of Privilege holder for the 2026–2027 season.
• Applications are processed by the last week of September to the first week of October, prior to the season start on October 10, 2026.
• Information and applications are available at the Regulations page: https://www.floridatomatoes.org/regulations/

This matters if you're a business that handles or repacks Florida tomatoes rather than a consumer — registration is a regulatory requirement, not a general site feature.

Other navigation areas

The site's main navigation also includes Contact Us, About Us, and Grower Resources, so growers have a dedicated entry point alongside the retail, food service, and consumer sections.

How to decide what to use

• If you're a buyer or chef: start with the Retail or Food Service sections for product positioning, then use Storage & Hints for handling guidance.
• If you're a home cook: the Recipes, Storage & Hints, Food Safety, and Health sections are the relevant ones.
• If you're a handler, repacker, or Certificate of Privilege holder: go straight to the Regulations page to register for the 2026–27 season before the October 10, 2026 start.
• If you're a grower: use the Grower Resources section.

The site does not publish pricing information, so any cost or fee questions tied to registration would need to be directed through the Contact Us channel or the Regulations page itself.