Category: Organic Garlic

What Exactly Are Garlic Scapes?

The 2019 farming season is already gone, however, I found a few pictures from garlic scapes harvest on Hugh’s farm and wanted to share them. Below there are also interesting health facts about the garlic scapes. Garlic scapes have wonderful health benefits such as improving digestive health, offering […]

Meet Organic Farmer – SIMON DeBOER

AN INTERVIEW with Simon DeBoer of Langside Farms in Ontario Canada. Simon started out as a certified organic grower back in 1998 and ever since is growing a variety of organic garlic, heart nuts and other tree nuts; he grows everything organically. Q: Today, you don’t have the organic certification per […]

The Toronto Garlic Festival

There are many garlic events in Ontario, however, the Toronto Garlic Festival is special and with a solid Polish background. The festival feature Ontario farmers displaying several varieties of garlic, including rare and heirloom types, plus great foods and garlic-related products. And it does not stop there you […]

Learn How To Grow Garlic

Last year at the end of the farming season, we were given from another farmer a bunch of garlic bulbs. Instead of consuming the bulbs, we decided to plant them in the ground in late October. This is how our first garlic growing experiment began. These were hard […]