Garlic Harvest

Last year we began to grow Garlic on the farm. Not just any garlic, this is a red skinned extremely strong garlic that blows that Chinese stuff out of the water.


Garlic is a fun crop which is grown a little differently than most vegetables on the farm. Instead of planting it in the spring, we must harvest, cure, clean and re-plant the whole crop in the fall before the ground freezes.

The picking does not take too long, four of us were able to pick 1/3rd of the crop in 3 hours Friday Morning.

We then take the garlic into our shed to prep for the next stage, Curing. We trim the garlic a little then place it on these drying racks that we blow air through. During this process we are preparing the garlic to be stored throughout the winter.

All of what I have just explained does take some time, but is no match to the work we have ahead. Once the garlic is cured we then have to go through bulb by bulb trimming roots and cleaning the dirt off to prepare the garlic for market. For the garlic that we will be re-planting we have to individually break each bulb apart into it's individual cloves so that in Mid September we can re-plant for next season crop.

If anyone would like to help us out please send me an e-mail at john@eaglecreekfarms.ca