We kept 2 family traditions active this weekend: making lefse and hunting deer. Kathy and one of her sons hunted up at the farm this weekend, while the rest of us made lefse together. We
Learning About Garlic
Online Sales Start Sept 3
We will open up our online sales on September 3, 2021. Mark your calendars to order early because we sell out every year! Check out this year’s varieties here – Armenian, Montana Giant, Spanish Roja,
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Learning About Garlic
Garlic Market Success!
Our first garlic market was a great success! Thanks to all of you who stopped over to choose your own garlic and chat. We had wonderful conversations with old friends and made a bunch of
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Healthy Living
Celebrating Family
We had a fantastic Christianson family reunion last weekend at the farm and at family homes. It was so fun to spend time with our uncles and aunts (who grew up on the farm), their
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Organic
Garlic Sales 2021!
We will be in Bemidji this weekend to visit with extended family, take the garlic down from curing (pictured), and prep it for sale! You can preview our 2021 varieties to learn more about their
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Learning About Garlic
The Curing Stage
We finished harvest about a week ago, and the garlic is curing in our drying barn. The curing process dries the thin, papery sheaths around each clove, which allows the garlic clove to last in
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Learning About Garlic
Harvest Underway
Harvest has begun! We plan to harvest over the course of 3-4weeks instead of having one big harvest weekend as we have done in the past.
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Recipes
Fresh Pesto
I started with a grocery bag of garlic scapes this year, and I have processed about half of them. They will last about a month in the fridge. I chop and freeze half of them
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Learning About Garlic
It’s time for garlic scapes!
It’s time again for garlic scapes, the part of the plant that would become a flower. Rather than letting the flower grow, most garlic farmers snip off the scape to direct the energy of the plant