If you love to cook, love tomatoes and love to garden, then White Flower Farm's Great Tomato Celebration Recipe Contest just might be the perfect contest.  The Grand Prize is a "Martha Stewart" type gardener's dream:

Grand Prize -- Awarded for Summer 2009:

• Mileage to Litchfield, Connecticut or Round Trip Air Fare for two from a point within the continental U.S. to Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.
• Airport pickup and transportation to and from the airport by White Flower Farm is included.
  
• Two nights at a local inn, including meals, arranged for by White Flower Farm.
  
• A day at the nursery with the gardeners of White Flower Farm. You will work in the gardens, visit the greenhouses, tour the property, and more.
  
• A morning tour of local gardens arranged by White Flower Farm.
• $250 gift certificate to White Flower Farm.
• A copy of The Cook’s Country Cookbook, The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook and two other cookbooks from America’s Test Kitchen.

If that prize gets you excited, you can get all the details for the Great Tomato Celebration Recipe Contest on their site. 

Just for the record:  this urban cook loves and appreciates Manhattan's green markets where I can get beautiful fresh tomatoes lovingly raised by someone else's sweat and hard work!!!