Big Stone Garlic

Family Farmed Garlic

Garlic News

Our 2015 Award Winning Hardneck Seed Garlic is Still Available

Biggest Chesnok Red Seed Garlic Award at the Minnesota Garlic FestivalWe were pleased to see that we made the local paper for Big Stone Garlic’s award at the Minnesota Garlic Festival this year.

Our German Red Hard Neck Garlic weighed in at 4.66 ounces and was the largest garlic head in the Rocambole category. The Minnesota Garlic Festival is the premier event for lovers of garlic, great local foods and good times!

Autumn has arrived and garlic planting will begin soon! At Big Stone Garlic, we are fortunate to have a plentiful stock of our award winning seed garlic. Our German Red and our Chesnok Red seed garlic are available for sale. Order now for Fall planting. Of course, all our garlic is edible, so pick up some additional seed quality garlic to roast up for a beautiful and flavorful appetizer or addition to your meal. The larger bulbs make a great presentation.

We had a Great Time at the Minnesota Garlic Festival!

Minnesota Garlic Festival logoIn August we were vendors at the 10th Annual Minnesota Garlic Festival in Hutchinson, MN. The event brought thousands of garlic lovers together to celebrate. It was a blast to talk with so many people who LOVE garlic. And, our German Red won First Prize in the garlic growing contest for “Biggest Rocambole”! Thank you to all who came out to see us at the Garlic Festival.
We are having an exciting season at Big Stone Garlic! Our harvest in July brought some of our most beautiful garlic, yet. This year we are also selling garlic locally on twincitieslocalfood.com. This is a great online farmers market for people in the Twin Cities.

Summer is Here and so are the Garlic Scapes!

The field is full of the beautiful pigtail curlicues. So, our kitchen is full of the smell of garlic scapes-roasted, sautéed, in pesto and soup. Lots have been chopped and used like green onions, adding a mild garlic treat to mashed potatoes, casseroles and salads.

Here are some recipes to get you started using your garlic scapes:

Garlic Scape Pesto

Roasted Garlic Scapes and Asparagus

Marinated Garlic Scapes and Asparagus

Pics from Garlic Harvest 2015

Sustainable Farming!

Last week we attended a Sustainable Farming Meeting in Milan (not the one in Italy) We got signed up to be a part of Sustainable Farming! There were a few drawings for prizes, and I got to help with the drawing. My cousin even won a head massaging thing.

January 25,  2015