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
Healthy Living
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
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Images of the Farm at Harvest July 2020
Let these pictures bring you peace and joy today! We are grounding ourselves in the sights, sounds, and scents of our organic land. ❤️
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Learning About Garlic
The Precise Time to Harvest
If scientists, accountants, and bakers appreciate precision and predictability, they should avoid farming. Farming is the great “It Depends.”
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Cover Crop Strategy
5 Sisters Organics farm is, of course as the name implies, certified organic. Additionally, we use a method called Regenerative Farming, which is a new term for the way my grandparents and great grandparents always
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A Fantastic Crop
We are excited about our garlic crop this year; it is growing beautifully! Last year, most Minnesota garlic growers lost approximately 30% of our crop due to weather, but this year it looks like over
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Learning About Garlic
Hope Springs Eternal
Hope springs eternal, even in a time of a global pandemic, and there is no better example of hope than the beauty and magic of plants rising from the earth in the springtime. Our garlic,
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Business
Winter Work
We planted our garlic in the fall last year, it starts growing in the spring, and we harvest it mid-summer. So what are we doing now that it is winter in Minnesota? All 5 of
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And That’s a Wrap!
We sold out of our 2019 garlic already! Our online sales were amazing (thank you to our dear cousin Dr. Alan Christianson!), and we sold out of garlic. That means that we will not be