The Marbled Purple Stripe Garlic – Pskem The Most Famous of the Heirloom Garlics - The Striped Garlics Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About GARLIC!! Few Americans have a great depth of understanding or knowledge of garlic. The garlic they encounter in the grocery store, usually California Select, orthe braided garlics they purchase at harvest festivals are they garlics that they know. Americans who have frequented garlic festivals have a slightly broader knowledge, and when they think of Heirloom Garlic, they are reminded of the striking, purple streaked bulbs that belong to the Striped Garlic family of cultivars. In America, the Striped Garlics are synonymous with Heirloom Garlic. The Striped Garlics comprise a numerous collection of cultivars which have been organized into three groups: Glazed Purple Stripe, Marbled Purple Stripe
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Georgian Crystal Garlic Every Cook’s Dream - Garlic Varieties with the Largest Cloves Harvesting History’s garlic comes from Upstate New York and the Oshkanogan Valley of Washington State. Both farms are certified nematode-free and organic. Our supplier in Washington State has been organic for 24 years. Our supplier in Upstate New York has been organic for 14 years. This year an extremely rare amalgamation of meteorological circumstances happened this spring to produce the best growing conditions for garlic in many, many decades. The spring was incredibly wet and this was followed by a somewhat drier and cooler early-to-mid summer. The garlic LOVED this and most varieties have produced the biggest individual cloves I have ever seen. For those of you who are seasoned garlic growers, you know to plant the largest
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Softneck Silverskin-Nootka Rose Garlic Garlics That Store The Longest Harvesting History’s garlic comes from Upstate New York and the Oshkanogan Valley of Washington State. Both farms are certified nematode-free and organic. Our supplier in Washington State has been organic for 24 years. Our supplier in Upstate New York has been organic for 14 years. This year an extremely rare amalgamation of meteorological circumstances happened this spring to produce the best growing conditions for garlic in many, many decades. The spring was incredibly wet and this was followed by a somewhat drier and cooler early-to-mid summer. The garlic LOVED this and most varieties have produced the biggest individual cloves I have ever seen. Hardneck Purple Striped-Kitab Harvesting History will begin to ship garlic in late September, and we will continue to
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Harvested Heirloom Garlic It Is Time T0 ORDER GARLIC! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!! Some of our newsletter topics are now available on YouTube. We will include a YouTube link whenever there is a YouTube video from Harvesting History that relates to a subject in the newsletter. New Jersey State Fair and Sussex County Horse Show For our customers in New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland andConnecticut, Harvesting History will have a booth in The Conservatory at the New Jersey State Fair and Sussex County Horse Show from August 2 - August 11. Come visit us and see what a real old fashion statefair is really like. This is a truly wonderful state fair. You can see Harvesting History’s entire Heirloom Garlic Collection at the following link: https://harvesting-history.com/product-category/heirloom-garlic/ This weekend would be a great time to put
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Arugula For An Extraordinary Fall & Winter Garden- 7 Herbs That Must Be Planted In August 2019 The Second Season has begun! In the past two newsletters, we talked briefly about 7 flowers and 7 vegetables that must be planted in August. Now let’s begin a discussion of herbs that must be planted in August. FIRST, some of our newsletter topics are now available on YouTube. We will include a YouTube link whenever there is a YouTube video from Harvesting History that relates to a subject in the newsletter. The Second Gardening Season for most herb gardeners throughout the US begins at the end of June or early July. It is the time to plant cold tolerant crops that will flourish in the cool autumn nights. Unlike planting in the spring where each
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Dinosaur Kale For An Extraordinary Fall & Winter Garden - 7 Vegetables That Must Be Planted In August 2019 The Second Season has begun! We talked briefly about 7 flowers that must be planted in August in our last newsletter. Now let’s begin a discussion of vegetables that must be planted in August. FIRST, some of our newsletter topics are now available on YouTube. We will include a YouTube link whenever there is a YouTube video from Harvesting History that relates to a subject in the newsletter. The Second Gardening Season for most vegetable gardeners throughout theUS begins at the end of June or early July. It is the time to plant cold tolerant crops that will flourish in the cool autumn nights. Unlike planting in the spring where each day is growing
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This is the fourth installment of four retold from Andrea Wulf’s book, The Founding Gardeners. The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #4 A Pathway in the Bartram Garden Monday, July 16th dawned crisp and clear and cool. Though the air temperature had improved substantially, the tempers of the gentlemen delegates in the closed hall of the Pennsylvania State House were as hot as ever. That Monday only 10 states (Of the 13 original colonies) were voting. Six votes would be required to either defeat or accept The Connecticut Plan. Rhode Island was boycotting the Convention. The New Hampshire delegates had not yet arrived, and of the three New York delegates only Alexander Hamilton had arrived so that state did nothave a quorum and was not eligible to vote. As the voting started, one by
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This is the third installment of four retold from Andrea Wulf’s book, The Founding Gardeners. The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #3 On the trip back from Bartram’s Garden and for the next day and a half, the delegates had a lot to think about. The 55 delegates ranged in age from 26 to Benjamin Franklin who at 81 was the oldest delegate. Franklin, himself, had begun to doubt that the Constitutional Convention would ever produce a successful result. He had stated, “Failure to revise the Articles of Confederation would show that we have not the Wisdom enough among us to govern ourselves.” The seemingly insurmountable area of contention was the issue of distribution of power in the Legislative Branch. Stone wall separating upper and lower gardens of Bartram’s Garden The small states argued
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The Family Home of John Bartram The Constitutional Convention Story: Installment #1 In 4 days we will celebrate the birth of this nation. Last year, as part of this celebration, Harvesting History posted a story of The Constitutional Convention and The Great Compromise that made the United States a reality. From July 1 through July 4th this year, we are going to repeat this story as a series of 4 newsletters. The story is somewhat complicated which is why we are retelling it in 4 installments. I apologize to each of you that feels that 4 newsletters in one week is too many. It is, but this story is worth telling and retelling. At a time when this nation faces, perhaps, its greatest challenges since its founding, it is
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Heirloom Squash Variety From the Prehistoric Americans to the Native Americans to the Immigrant Americans - The Vegetable That Nourished A Nation Squash have been a staple of the American diet since the first prehistoric peoples entered North America via the land bridge from Asia. Squash and pumpkins are native to many parts of the North American, Central American and South American regions. They were a significant part of the 3 sisters trinity – beans, corn and squash. The Native Americans used squash in all aspects of their lives and culture. The vegetable was made into soups, breads, desserts, stuffings, storage containers, musical instruments, utensils, etc. The Native Americans shared their knowledge of this vegetable with the Europeans who adopted many of the culinary practices they were taught. Today, squash
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