Two Feet in the Dirt

Halloween week is always an extra exciting one on the farm as it marks the planting of the next year’s garlic! This Tuesday, we put in about 1,350 cloves of garlic, all planted from the biggest heads that we saved from each of our three varieties when we harvested them this past July. The smaller cloves were planted in a separate section and will be harvested next year as green garlic to further supplement our early spring offerings. The biggest and best of the cloves were planted to provide next year’s full-sized heads of garlic, as well as the seed garlic for 2020.

Along with the two varieties of garlic that we offered for sale this year, we also have another variety that we exclusively saved for seed this year. This variety is one that I first grew in 2011 at the second farm I ever worked on. (We call this variety “Kestrel” after the farmer whom I worked for there.) I brought this garlic variety from farm to farm with me over the years and it continues to be a show stopper both in size, flavor, and production. We look forward to being able to offer it for sale next year!

Best of all, we had some extra heads of garlic leftover after planting, so will be able to offer some extra-large garlic this week at the market! See below for our full harvest list and we’ll see you at Burke!

Farmers Katie & Mike

This week at the market:

• Salad mix
• Head lettuce
• Baby kale
• Arugula
• Winter salad mix
• Spinach
• Radishes
• Beets
• Bok Choi
• Salad turnips
• Kohlrabi
• Kale
• Collard greens
• Sweet peppers
• Onions
• Potatoes
• Garlic