In this second installment on Growing Garlic, I'm going to share a fantastic Pickled Garlic Scapes recipe. In the first post, I gave an overview about the process involved with growing Garlic. Garlic is one of the easiest garden vegetables to grow! Here in the Cariboo, the Garlic Scapes come on hot and heavy in early July. Since we have almost 300 garlic plants in the garden, we basically … [Read more...]
Garlic Scape Pesto Pasta – Recipe
Looking for a quick and easy dinner idea? Try this Garlic Scape Pesto Pasta recipe - make it with any kind of Pesto! It's easy to make and you can add hot Italian sausages or chicken for protein. Serve with a side salad and enjoy! Pesto Pasta: First, make a white sauce: 2 tbsp butter 2 tbsp flour 1/8 tsp salt dash pepper 1 cup milk 3/4 cup cheddar cheese 3 … [Read more...]
How to Preserve Garlic in Oil
We grow a lot of garlic here on our homestead. We have always loved eating garlic and every year I just kept planting more and more. Eventually we decided to start an actual garlic farm. So yes, we eat a lot of garlic. We also sell a lot of garlic. We deal with all the garlic bulbs and we also make garlic products. These are Garlic Scapes which need to be removed from … [Read more...]
Bacon Wrapped Garlic Bites – Recipe
It's all about garlic these days at our house! If we haven't been drying it, cleaning it or selling it, we've been eating it. Big full heads of Russian Red, Yugoslavian and Music garlic - we're indulging every evening with dinner. We love garlic. We love bacon too. Why not have them together? Enjoy this Bacon Wrapped Garlic appetizer! This is a really easy and fast recipe Graham came up with, … [Read more...]
The Garlic is Hanging to Cure
We have had several very busy days. The great news is the 2016 Garlic Harvest is done! 8000 plants (3 varieties of Hardneck Garlic) have been dug, partially cleaned, bundled and hung to cure. And we are happy...and tired. Here are just a few pictures. There are about 4000 plants hanging here in the barn. It's a gorgeous sight and I am loving nothing more than walking … [Read more...]
The Garlic is Sold Out
All of the Garlic we harvested in 2015 has now been sold out. Thank you to everyone who bought our naturally grown hardneck Garlic - we are looking forward to harvesting 8000 plants in the summer of 2016! Those huge cloves pictured above are Russian Red; we also grow Music, Tibetan and Yugoslavian Porcelain. All our Garlic is grown from Organic Certified seed and we don't use any … [Read more...]
Smoky Aspen Garlic Rock Salt – our Newest Product
We came up with a great idea, played around with our recipe and it's been called a winner. Several friends offered to be the guinea pigs for this and each one of them loved it! We were able to get several batches made up, which we brought along to the South Cariboo Garlic Festival and added to our table. Surprise (not really) we SOLD OUT before the end of the first day. We packaged up the … [Read more...]
Fun at the South Cariboo Garlic Festival!
We spent the weekend attending our first Garlic Festival and we had a great time. We met lots of people (and it was a bonus that we got to meet several people who regularly read this website!) and had a lot of laughs. Here are some pictures of our booth and beautiful garlic bulbs that we were offering. All of our garlic (and everything else) we grow here is naturally grown - zero chemicals or … [Read more...]
Available Now! Canadian Garlic 2015 Harvest
It's August 5, 2015 and our wonderful Garlic crop is almost fully harvested. It's an earlier harvest than usual, and that seems to be happening all over the province this year. Now, the garlic bulbs are hanging to dry in the barn loft and breezeway, the ideal place since there is usually a gentle breeze blowing down the Valley. Again this year, we are selling limited amounts of the three types … [Read more...]
