Garlic Goodness

Farm / Garlic Goodness

Farm Type: garlic, Scottish Highland cattle

WE LOVE GARLIC!

We’ve been growing garlic for around 15 years and selling it for 10 years. We have the perfect climate for growing gorgeous and tasty varieties of hardneck garlic. That’s the kind that has solid, strong cloves with a central stalk that comes up early in the summer and makes an ‘umbel’ that is full of little bulbs called ‘bulbils’. Our generally cool nights and short growing season seem to suit the plants perfectly – they emerge early in spring which can look a lot like winter in our area. Scapes form quickly in late June, bursting open in mid-July, if they aren’t removed, and the bulbs are ready from late-July to early-August, and are well cured by mid-September. We eat the bulbs starting in July as the new bulbs taste so great.

We have a small herd of Highland Cattle on our natural grass pasture. They’re raised very quietly and we sell the calves live for those who enjoy their beauty and as freezer beef for those who appreciate the lean smaller carcass.
We feel strongly about our soil health and about natural, regenerative growing practices. We do our work by hand and don’t use any chemical fertilizers or weed killers. We enjoy the variety of bug and bird life here and try to support and maintain the healthy ecosystem.

We’re offering free tours of the farm hourly.

• When you’re here you can learn about all phases of garlic production from planting to harvest.
• You can see and photograph our gorgeous cows and calves while you’re here too.

• Profile Username to assign to farm listing: garlic goodness
• Farm Type: garlic, Scottish Highland cattle
• Host Name: Lorraine & Kevin Bannister
• Phone Number: (403) 506-2129
• Email Address: farm@garlicgoodness.ca
• Website URL: https://garlicgoodness.ca
• Is your farm accessible: No
• Date: Saturday August 17th, Sunday August 18th
• Start Time: 11:00 AM
• End Time: 4:00 PM
• Address:

  35540 RR12 Red Deer County, AB T4G 0M9

• Directions:

  To get to the farm take Highway 54 West off of Highway 2 at Innisfail (the South Innisfail overpass). Follow Highway 54 for about 3 miles then turn left (West) on Township Road 355A. There are signs for Kemp Farm on the corner. Follow Twp Rd 355A for about 2 1/2 miles to Range Road 12 which is a T intersection. We are ½ mile north at the end of the No Exit road – 35540 RR12 is the blue sign and it’s the central driveway.
  We are on the Innisfail side of the Red Deer River. If you use Google Maps there’s a pin for garlic goodness which takes you to the T at Range Road 12 and Township Road 355A – follow RR12 a further half mile north to get to us.

• Latitude: 52.05992
• Longitude: -114.05271
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