Abstract: The emerging bush tomato industry faces many challenges. These include regularity of supply, food safety, appropriate nomenclature, correct identification of species, domestication, cultivation, quality assurance and traceability. The Bush Tomato Handbook is an effort to identify, collect, synthesise and present all of the information relevant to the horticultural production of Solanum centrale (bush tomato) that includes our own experience and the work of others who grow, harvest and/or study this plant. Our purpose is to support the establishment of bush food enterprises across desert Australia.