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September 1:
Current orders are being processed, and we are
about 1/3rd completed. E-mail
updates will be sent as orders ship. Please open your garlic
upon receipt so it can "breathe," and store in a cool, dry
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August 18 and 23:
Current orders should be shipped around September
1st. E-mail updates will be sent as
orders ship. We are cleaning our last two varieties, and it's slow
going with only the 2 Sisters to work on it. The kids are back
in school, so we're plugging away by ourselves. :-) |
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August 12: The 2010 garlic
harvest is now cured/dried, and we are
preparing to ship beginning next week.
We dry/cure our garlic longer than some producers, as we want
to ship you the number of pounds you ordered after the
loss of extra water weight. This ensures that you aren't
paying for water weight. It also helps avoid rot while you
store the garlic prior to planting. |
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July 19: The 2010 garlic harvest is complete and the crop is hanging to cure/dry. What a beautiful sight it is! We anticipate shipping to begin in mid August. | |
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July 4: Harvest time is here! We have harvested the elephant and are working on softnecks. Of course, we are taste testing as we go. Today's specialty is roasted garlic on the grill. FANtastic! |
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June 18: We have some
REALLY nice garlic growing in the fields. Despite an extremely
wet spring, there are some bulbs that are as large or larger
than any we've grown in the past. It is hard to not dig them
up to check them out! We have been busy hand-pulling weeds (we
are truly organic growers, despite the complaints from our
lumbar vertebrae!), and are looking forward to harvest coming
up! |
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June 10: Instead of mowing yards or paper routes, our kids are pickin' and sellin' scapes. They can be purchased at our farms at Bedford or Blockton, Iowa. A grocery bag full weighs 4 to 5 lbs and costs $10. Process in your food processor for freezing or pesto, or use sections for grilling or gourmet recipes! Update June 18: Scapes are SOLD OUT!
Call
712-370-0851
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 Click the scape image above for some tasty scape recipes! |
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June 8:
Our shopping cart is uploading now! This year, we have bundled
quantities ordered into shipping groups to
SAVE MONEY for YOU!
:-) We will ship with USPS: Up
to 3 pounds ordered: $10 shipping cost So for example, if
you purchase 14 pounds of garlic, you will pay $18 in
shipping...which is just $1.29 per pound for shipping. Or,
ordering 8 pounds with $13 shipping works out to $1.63
shipping per pound ordered. |
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April 21: Thanks to everyone that contributed to our never-ending quest for knowledge and opinions by taking our survey this past winter. The two sisters will soon get together with a large hat full of names, and will have someone draw the winner (to be announced via e-mail and on our site). Check our pictures of the 2010 fields...we will again have a LOT of varieties of gourmet, organic garlic available this summer! |
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January 23: Help us improve, so we can offer the varieties, sizes, and certifications you hope for. Take our survey, and you'll be entered into a drawing for F-R-E-E Garlic! (April 23: now offline) |
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January 6: What a winter so far! Thankfully, we have snow on the ground to insulate the garlic from the frigid temperatures. Mulch and snow are both good insulators. | |
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November 11:
We are now both
Certified Organic, and also
Certified Naturally Grown! More information about our new
certification will come soon. |
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October 25: We
have several boxes of seed garlic that are for sale in our
shopping cart. The boxes include a
variety of bulb sizes that are mostly 1 to 2" in diameter,
with larger bulbs in some of the varieties. The boxes vary in
weight from 4 to 10 lbs each. |
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October 9:
Planting for 2 Sisters means that every garlic seed is
individually planted (not placed by automated machinery). It
takes us a lot of time, but we like knowing that every clove
is planted individually. The weather is going to make this
next week's planting a challenge! Cold temps are on their way
tonight. But, we'll soon be finished and hope to see the
garlic peek through the ground before winter sets in. |
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October 1: We
are well into our planting now, and feel we may have
average-sized seed garlic left over to offer for sale late in
October. We are considering offering it in "lots" of about 10
lbs each, uncleaned. E-mail us to be placed on our e-mail
notification list or check back in a couple weeks for updates. |
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August 28:
Most of our garlic orders have been shipped, though were
delayed due to high humidity (we felt it would be best for our
garlic quality to package it when the air was drier). So
be looking for your garlic soon! |
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August 16: It's
almost shipping time! "Thank you" to our customers, and look
soon for your garlic to be shipped from 2 Sisters Garlic! We
are already preparing new field locations for our 2010 crop
(we practice crop rotation to preserve soil and garlic
quality). New locations will be worked many times to aerate
the soil and control weeds, and past fields will be replanted
with organic crops to amend/replenish the soil with nutrients.
There is always something going on here! |
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July 26: We are
halfway through the harvest, and have some beautiful garlic
hanging to dry. It's fun to "taste test" right in the field!
Special thanks to Ben Wantland, Matt and Jody Hess for coming
out to pitch in! Some of our varieties are sold out or nearly sold out for the large-sized bulbs (and so we've marked them as such in the shopping cart), but we still have the average/culinary sizes--up to 2" in diameter--available in most varieties. By August 7th, we will be able to re-evaluate our harvest quantities of large-sized bulbs, and may be able to offer some for sale again. |
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July 11: Harvest is upon us! We will be harvesting the garlic and hanging it to dry for the next couple weeks, and will be able to ship garlic out in mid-August and after. |
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June 23: Our shopping cart is now online, and we are accepting orders for the 2009 crop. Order early, before your favorite varieties are sold out! |
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June 1: Garlic Scapes are for sale through June, available fresh from the field in Bedford and Blockton, Iowa! |
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Whether you are looking for gourmet garlic for "feed or seed," we will be happy to help you!
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Toni Perdew tonip@frontiernet.net |
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