Valley Bounty: Garlic
Last October, Deb Habib began cracking bulbs of garlic and filling buckets to the brim with cloves. Deb runs Seeds of Solidarity Farm in Orange[...]
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Valley Bounty: Garlic Scapes
There’s something really tactilely satisfying about clutching a big tangled mess of garlic scapes, like I did over the weekend when I picked up my[...]
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Valley Bounty: Green Garlic
Green garlic is young, fresh garlic, planted in the fall and harvested in the spring before the bulb is fully formed. Green garlic stalks look[...]
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Valley Bounty: Garlic
Here we are, in the brave new world of 2017. With the surreal and acrimonious vestiges of 2016 still lingering, I’m sure many of us[...]
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Valley Bounty: Garlic Scapes
I have a group of friends with whom garlic scapes seemed to have attained a reverence bordering on the mythic. During the season when garlic[...]
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Valley Bounty: Garlic
Celebrate the beauty of garlic this weekend with a trip to the Garlic and Arts Festival in Orange, or by preparing a garlic-themed meal—or both![...]
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Valley Bounty: Green Garlic
Many of us did not grow up eating garlic in its several forms—in my house, for example, we knew it best as powder. Right now,[...]
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Savoring the seasons: Solstice = strawberries + scapes + super supper
The Recorder. June 18, 2014. By Mary McClintock. Now is the time for savoring sweet strawberries and producing garlic scape pesto for future use!
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Valley Bounty: June 14, 2014: Garlic Scapes
Garlic scapes, the edible flower stem of garlic, are the playful, curly green shoot you’ll see at farmers’ markets, farm stands, or in your CSA[...]
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Garlic Scape Pesto
By Abby Getman I look forward to garlic scapes with the same excitement as I do strawberries. In order to make this tasty treat last[...]
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Valley Bounty, September 28, 2013: Garlic
Plump, firm fall garlic is available now at farmers’ markets, farm stands, and some local retailers, demonstrating that even crops that store and travel fairly[...]
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