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YEP, WE'RE TOTAL GARLIC GEEKS!

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Garlic

To earn our "Garlic Geek" status, we've done a lot of research, experimented like crazy, and steeped ourselves in the garlic universe. We hope you can find answers to all your burning garlic questions here, but if not, let us know!

GROWING GARLIC

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Planting, growing, harvesting

and curing tips galore! 

Natural Medicine

Can eating a clove or two a day

really keep the doctor away?

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How to make your treasured

garlic last the longest.

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Tricks for taming this wild, curly,

seasonal culinary delight.

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Insider knowledge about working
with the "Queen of the Kitchen."

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We love to connect,

collaborate and network!

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FEAST YOUR BRAIN ON THIS!

Fantastic Garlic Trivia

  • It is thought that garlic is native to Siberia, but that it spread to other parts of the world over 5000 years ago.

  • Garlic was once so prized for it's healing and flavor properties that it was used as currency.

  • There are over 450 known varieties of garlic, and it is one of the oldest and most widely used food flavorings on earth, called for in over 75% of savory recipes worldwide.

  • Heirloom, gourmet garlic has many unique flavor, vitamin, and mineral properties, as well as countless, proven health benefits that aren't found in any other food. This makes garlic an essential food in every kitchen and is the reason this "Queen of the Kitchen" has had such a long reign!

  • Cooked and raw heirloom garlic have been scientifically proven to have many unique antibiotic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal properties.

  • Naturally grown, fresh garlic is proven to reduce bad cholesterol by inhibiting enzymes from growing in liver cells.

  • While it's sometimes convenient to use a processed garlic product (yuck!), there is nothing that rivals the flavor of fresh, locally grown hardneck garlic. You'll taste and smell the difference in your kitchen instantly!

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