I'm trying a faster harvesting method this year: Johann is driving over the garlic beds with an attachment that digs about 10" below the soil, lossening the garlic. It is faster, but more garlic is getting bruised than with the forking method.

A garlic elf prepping the garlic for hanging

Monique Pays a Visit

My friend Monique, who was at Whole Circle when I was an intern, drops in while we're prepping garlic.  Monique and I sort of first met at the 2010 Guelph Organic Conference, at a panel discussion, when I questioned the CEO of Stoneyfield Yogurt on their hi sugar content yongurt. He gave me a blah blah answer about helping to avert the problem of building up fertilizers in rivers, but that didn't answer the question about why they put sugar in their yogurt. Anyway, a month later I went to Whole Circle Farm for the first time, to interview for an internship position, and Monique, said, "Hey, you were at the Guelph Conference!"