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Farmers Stewart and Laurel Loew with garlic and onions.
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2nd Annual Garlic & Onion Festival!
June 19 & 20, 5 PM-9PM
Last year we celebrated the tasty garlic and onion harvest with our first ever Garlic & Onion Festival and it was a big hit! There's not a lot going on in June and folks came from far and wide to enjoy an evening on the farm.
This year we will be having our 2nd annual Garlic & Onion Festival on June 19 & 20, 2009. We have this event in the evening - starting at 5PM to avoid the hottest part of the day. And, it is a little cooler here on the farm. Our elevation is higher than Tucson, and our mature shade trees and grassy lawns help keep temperatures down.
Admission for this event is free! So are the hayrides and visits to the animals in the petting zoo. Due to the success of last year's festival, we are able to invite more vendors to participate. There will be live music, roasted garlic, food samples, recipes and more! Dragoon Market & Cafe, among others, (www.DragoonMarketplace.Mysite.Com), will be providing freshly prepared foods, desserts & drinks featuring garlic & onions. They will be offering local sausages called "count draculas" due to their garlic content!
Bring the whole family out to the farm for a fun, relaxing evening!
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This year's allium harvest will include:
- elephant garlic - a variety of garlic with very large cloves and a tender, mild, slightly sweet flavor. Elephant garlic looks like a large garlic bulb, but is actually a variety of leek. It is wonderful spread on crackers or toasted crustini or added at the last minute to dishes for a mild garlic flavor.
- soft neck garlic - a garlic that is strong flavored and stores well because it has several protective outer layers of papery skin.
- hard neck garlic - so named for the stiff stalk that grows right through the bulb, hard-necked garlic is mild tasting and best used soon after harvest since it has only a few layers of papery skin and thus keeps poorly. This variety is harder to find in grocery stores, which tend to stock foods with a long shelf-life, so it is a special treat and best bought directly from the grower!
- yellow granex onions - we have had a lot of success growing this onion variety and have become known for what many of our customers call "the best onions I have ever had!". This is one of the sweetest onions available. Excellent for salads, slicing, and cooking. Stays firm, crisp, and sweet when stir fried.
- leeks - leeks are part of the onion family and, in fact, look like a giant version of green onions. However, the little green onion has a much stronger onion flavor then the leek. The taste can be described as a mix of mild onion and cucumber.
- green bunching onions - are young shoots of bulb onions, and are milder tasting than large bulb onions. They have a small, not fully developed white bulb end with long green stalks. Both parts are edible.
- purplette bunching onions - are red skinned mini onions. These tasty specialty onions mature early and are very attractive either topped or bunched. Purplette turns a nice pastel pink colour when cooked or pickled
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Our favorite way to prepare leeks is to blanch them and eat as an appetizer with a dip!
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Eye catching purplette bunching onions are packed full of flavor!
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