November 6, 2024

All About Garlic w/ Kristin Graves, The Garlic Companion

Grow your best garlic ever with farmer Kristin Graves! Kristin will tell us about planting, growing and harvesting garlic and will share tips to help us produce abundant harvests of this pungent allium.

Episode Guest

Episode Guest

Kristin Graves is a fifth-generation farmer in Alberta, Canada and the author of The Garlic Companion. In addition to her vegetable CSA, she focuses on growing fresh garlic for local markets and creating value-added products to ship across Canada.

Learn more about her work at www.fifthgengardens.ca

Kristin’s new book The Garlic Companion is now available everywhere books are sold and on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Garlic-Companion-Recipes-Preservation-Techniques/dp/1635866863

Follow Kristin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fifthgengardens

Grow your best garlic ever with farmer Kristin Graves! Kristin will tell us about planting, growing and harvesting garlic and will share tips to help us produce abundant harvests of this pungent allium.

She also talks about using garlic to create value-added products, how to properly dry and cure garlic, black garlic cheesecake, The Garlic Goddess and so much more!

Before the interview Bevin talks about teaching at the Seed Savers Exchange virtual seed school. Learn more about Seed Savers Exchange: https://seedsavers.org/

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