Tag: raw garlic

For the Love of Garlic Scapes – 10 Ways to Use Them!

Cultivate Diversity, Food, Forest Gardening, Make it Yourself, Make No Waste, Obtain a Yield, Permaculture Principles, Recipie, Use and Value Gifts from Nature

Our garlic scapes are now coming fast and furious!  They are a wonderful byproduct of growing garlic, since by harvesting, the garlic bulbs grow much larger.  In the interest of making no waste, we use every single one!  I get asked a lot what we do with them all, so I thought others may have […]

June 30, 2015

How to Fight a Cold

Catch and Store Energy, Food, Make it Yourself, Obtain a Yield, Permaculture Principles, Recipie, Use and Value Gifts from Nature

I recently met a garlic farmer who introduced me to a wonderful chemical in garlic called “allicin.”  He explained how there were two chemicals in the garlic,  “allinase” and “alliin” which remain separated within each garlic clove.  They are there to protect the garlic from pathogens in the soil.  When the garlic is attacked by microbial […]

December 8, 2014