I don’t know about you, but as a lifetime Minnesotan I know that I feel like I’ve come out of hibernation each spring, and I dance with joy around the flowering lilacs and fruit trees!
Healthy Living
Much to Our Relief, Spring Arrived Again
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” (Margaret Atwood) We are welcoming spring 2022 to 5 Sisters Organics farm in Bemidji, Minnesota. We talk a lot about growing
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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
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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Learning About Garlic
It’s a new season
Spring has returned again to Northern Minnesota! I believe that because of our 4 seasons and our cold winters, Minnesotans tend to appreciate spring in a unique and significant way. This spring at 5 Sisters
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Fall Planting – A Very Full Day
We finished our fall planting today, and here are the stats of the day: 17 family workers, 6.5 hours, almost 13,000 cloves, Macgyver-level tools, 6 visiting cousins/aunties/uncles, and a hundred meaningful conversations. Our process looked
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Learning About Garlic
Is It Supposed to Look Like THAT?
I have a clear memory of eating some chicken when I was a young kid. I said “Ewww, Mom, what’s wrong with this chicken? It’s mushy!” My mom explained, “Oh, I bought that at a
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Learning About Garlic
We’re Almost Ready!
Last weekend was a flurry of activity in Bemidji to continue processing our garlic. As you remember, we harvested in July and hung the garlic to cure for several weeks. We process our garlic by
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The Cure
Can you just smell this room? Our organic, gourmet garlic is harvested and hanging in our drying barn to cure for a few weeks. Then we will prep it and be ready to sell it