Where is Alefantis's tomato farm? (pizzagate)

submitted ago by SIMONBARROW

'we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes — 10 tons of tomatoes every year.'

http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/04/from-scratch-james-alefantis/ http://archive.is/03Lhml

Where does Comet grow its annual harvest of 10 tons of tomatoes?

Could this farm be the location of the building shown in these photos, which doesn't look to me like the basement of a city restaurant? It looks like a farm building.

https://i.imgsafe.org/0aab857046.jpg

https://i.imgsafe.org/0aac970f94.jpg

Notice that two people asked where these pictures were taken (Miguel Vaquedano Cooper and Ralph Brabham), but neither received an answer.

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KaliPhobos ago

looks like they're working on getting pipes underground... but why on earth would you need pipes underneeth your house??

worst case scenario: tomato farm with children in the cellar... I guess that will be worth taking a closer look at.

do you have links to the original pictures?

I think twitter filters out metadata so that point can't help us sadly... (but I might be mistaken ofcause)

SIMONBARROW ago

I don't know where the originals of these photos were posted.

I think this lead might go nowhere, though. I looked at Toigo Orchard on Google Maps and the buildings don't appear to be made of brick. From the outside, they are clearly wood.

What IS interesting is that Alefantis wasn't giving away the location of the brick building.

Kanter also says that the tinned tomatoes are canned and stored at Punxsutawny, Pennsylvania! The precise location is given in the below report as Stello Foods:

http://www.philly.com/philly/food/restaurants/20130822_San_Marzanos_vs__juicy_local_heirlooms.html

But isn't that a kind of long way from DC? Why would you store them so far away from your restaurant?

Anyway, I had a look around this town on Google Maps and noticed there are a lot of buildings made out of red bricks there. Just saying!

How about the possibility that the location of these photos is a disused building in Punxsutawney?

KaliPhobos ago

judging by the way the walls are built (going almost half a meter under the ground) as well as the roof construction it's safe to assume that'S a rather old building. I'm not sure about the stone ground tho... that might indicate it wasnt used as a room for living in the first place but rather a farm or industrial building (reminds me of other places i've seen where you keep horses or pigs...) These information should probably help us sort out a number of possible locations.

We also have grafitty on the walls (--> that location was obviously not used//abandoned for some time) saying JKB//JMB and ROX (cant really read it). Most likely these are the names of sprayers living around that area? MIGHT help us, but also rather unlikely

Edit: The photos seem to be from his private INstagram account that is set PRIVATE: https://www.instagram.com/jimmycomet/ So no chance to get any forther pictures unless we had an insider... :/

Update: Checked all accounts mentioned in the pictures:

so the only so far known location ("tops unlimited" building) from any of the accounts involved is about 90miles away from Toigo Orchard. The other pictures look more promising but we dont now their locations yet.

Anyways I have very little hope of any of these locations to be it, I think what we're actually looking for is a single house somewhere off the big cities...

interesting: there seem to be two posts containing "#ccwoolman" but no account by the same name. Was it deleted?

SIMONBARROW ago

Sorry to have wasted your time. The photos are almost certainly of Comet. Check out the ping pong tables up against the wall in the first photo.

KaliPhobos ago

probably, idk. do you have pictures of PPC's inside that looks just like the place?

At least the iron things holding the roof should still be the same then.

SIMONBARROW ago

Compare the brickwork that can be seen here:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2671/3915718559_635d43749f.jpg

I'm starting to think that this entire room was reconstructed at some stage before it became the present ping pong / band area.

Ceiling seems to be the same in this photo:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/631/22804255420_a8df7575dc_o.jpg

It's Comet!

KaliPhobos ago

ok at least I am convinced, too, now.

The photos are pretty old and seem to be trom the days when they built the PingPongComet...

So I guess we can close this thread // use it to investigate TOIOGS?

SIMONBARROW ago

Yes, they must have been taken when the building was being transformed into Comet.