Garlic harvest is here! Each share is entitled to 50 bulbs, so a household with two shares can bring home up to 100 garlic! Our system will be the same as in past years. We’ll harvest it over a period of a week or so and bring wheelbarrows into the share room where members count out their own to cure at home. Click here to read our garlic specific page that covers why we distribute this way, steps to cure, along with a video of tying/hanging the bulbs. Plan to swing by the farm to pick up your share of the garlic sometime Friday, July 18th-25th. If you are not able to come during that time, send us an email or text so we make sure to set yours aside. There will be a garlic specific sheet on the wooden table in the share room. Mark by your name when you’ve grabbed your bulbs.
Garlic harvest includes field tasks such as harvest and barn tasks such as grading, tying and hanging.
Meet us at the Garden Morning and Potluck this Saturday, July 19th starting at 9am, with noon lunch. We’re glad our buddies will be strumming tunes 10-noon. If Saturday doesn’t work, you can also participate in the garlic harvest (weather cooperating) Friday, July 18th, 9am-1pm.
Have you tried the flower petals of bee balm/monarda yet? They have a light flavor of sweet citrus and thyme. Cut the flower head, pull out the petals to flutter onto dishes for a beautiful aromatic touch.
Crops Available
* marks new this week
- Basil
- Bee balm*
- Celery*
- Cilantro
- Currants (pink, red, white, and black)
- Dill
- Garlic
- Kale, curly and lacinato/dino
- Leaf fennel
- Lemon verbena
- Mint
- Mixed lettuce greens
- Oregano
- Rainbow chard
- Spicy green mix*- includes arugula and mustard
- Thyme
- Tulsi holy basil
- Rosemary
- Scallion
- Sour cherry*
- Blooming flowers: Bee balm, celosia, cleome, echinacea, false sunflower, daisy, gomphrena, hollyhock, lily, marshmallow, salvia, statice red hot poker, snapdragons, yarrow, zinnia.
- The earliest flowers in the gardens are the perennials that survive from year to year. There are lesser quantities of these as compared to the annual flowers which are starting to bloom now. Shareholders are welcome to harvest anything you see in the landscape (unless marked otherwise if we are saving for seed). Wandering in these beds each week will reveal new surprises.
