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  • From: "St. Joseph the Worker Farm" <jmmps AT rocketmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic flowers
  • Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:46:16 -0700 (PDT)

Very interesting! Wow, I learn something new
everyday!!!
Thanks..


--- Craig Gilbert <GarlicBed AT Comcast.net> wrote:
> The elephant garlic produces a huge flower which
> looks like purple fire works. It is often sold
> as a cut flower. I have seen prices from $1 to
> $3 at a local farmers market. The much smaller
> hardneck garlic also produces a flower. These
> are much smaller and not necessarily pretty.
> These are popular in oriental markets. Also, a
> great dressing can be made from these: Harvest
> flowers while still young and tender, in food
> processor puree as finely as possible. Add olive
> oil, apple cider vinegar, umi (or rice)
> vinegar, sweet basil, lemon juice, ginger juice,
> salt, very light cayenne pepper. Consistency
> should be thick but fluid. Put on a tomato
> sandwich and it is out of this world. Hugh
> Lovell, (renown biodynamic farmer and former
> Green party Candidate for Ag Commissioner) from
> Blairsville, GA made one which leaped off the
> shelves at $8 per mason jar. He also would take
> a wheelbarrow full of garlic flower to his cows
> and watch them run to him and fight over them as
> part of a rite of spring.
>
>
>
> >
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=====
Pax,
Jackie
St. Joseph the Worker Farm
NW, Pennsylvania





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