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  1. How to Plant (and Order) Garlic

    It's hard to believe, but it's that time already - time to start ordering and prepare for planting garlic! Here are some instructions for planting garlic and how to order the right amount. Already know what you need? Click here to see our varieties. Garlic is best planted in the fall for harvest the following summer. It can be planted...
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  2. Improving our Garlic Management

    Here at High Mowing, we understand how essential a reliable and productive garlic crop is in a garden or on a farm. We take our job of sourcing high quality, organic garlic very seriously and it is for that reason that garlic is one of the trickier seed items we manage in our warehouse. We know how frustrating it is...
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  3. The Great Garlic GIVEAWAY!

    This month we’re delighted to be giving away every garlic lover’s dream: a beautiful handmade garlic grater by local artist Marghie Seymour of GrateGarlic (so you can eat all the garlic you like and never have to mince again!) a $25 gift certificate (so you can order the garlic varieties or seeds of your choice) and a lovely large hand-woven...
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  4. Growing Great Garlic: Selection, Site Preparation & Planting

    Mediterranean softnecks like Lorz Italian are best for hot climates. Garlic is a wonderfully easy and rewarding crop to grow. It’s incredibly versatile in the kitchen, has great health properties and can propagate itself for years to come. There are, however, a few tricks that will help ensure success – like choosing suitable varieties, preparing the soil, and planting properly...
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  5. Garlic Keeper Giveaway!

    With garlic-planting season in full force, we thought we'd add a little fun by offering a giveaway.  We're very excited to partner with local potter Abby Tonks of Abby T Pottery in Randolph, Vermont, who is as big a fan of our seeds as we are of her pottery. Her signature pieces are these lovely "Little Birdie Garlic Keepers." Depending...
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  6. Stories of Resilience

    As we've each dealt with the difficulties and uncertainties of life amid a global health crisis individually, we've also been forced to carry the burden collectively with disruptions to foodways, resource distribution, healthcare and our local and national economies. It has affected everyone, though not equally, and each community has had to make tough choices about how to move forward...
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  7. The Search for Better Seed

    How High Mowing expanded our garlic selection and improved quality with our partners. Garlic is one of the most difficult crops in which to maintain quality. After frustrations in our early years with garlic seed that simply didn’t meet our standards, we committed to some operational changes in order to enhance our garlic offerings. Broadening Our Selection Our team identified...
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  8. Growing for Preservation

    In the Northeast, August marks the traditional beginning of harvest season.  While season extension has many growers harvesting year-round or close to it, August through September can still claim the heaviest, and most diverse, yields of the year.  With tomatoes weighing down the vine, zucchini overflowing in the fields, and cabbage sizing up in time for kraut-making, we’re now in...
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  9. 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Farming

      Cristina Cosentino works as Field Operations Specialist at the H.O.G. Farm, a diversified organic vegetable farm in Brookhaven, NY. I no longer think of time as linear from date to date, but rather from vegetable to vegetable. I never thought that the mental organization of my personal life would be so intimately intertwined with memories of harvesting strawberries or...
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  10. Balsamic Goat Cheese Pesto Pizza by Pete's Greens CSA

    March 14th is "Pi Day", so we're celebrating with a recipe for a pie full of veggies. This recipe is courtesy of Pete's Greens CSA  in Craftsbury, VT and stars some surprising (but delicious!) root vegetables: kohlrabi and rutabaga. The original recipe from the Pete's Greens CSA newsletter can be found here. I love the flexibility and creativity that can...
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