garlic scapes

CSA Week 3

In This Week’s Box Sugar Snap Peas Summer Squash and Zucchini Scallions Red Leaf Lettuce Salad Mix Raspberries Cucumber Broccoli Cilantro Garlic Scapes Fruit Share Sweet cherries from Tuken’s Orchard just outside New Lebanon SAVE THE DATE CSA member field walk: July 11 at 7pm It is vacation time — for theContinue reading “CSA Week 3”

Garlic Scapes

The green pencil thin curly stem like vegetable is the flowering head of garlic, called a garlic scape. We harvest the scape for two reasons. First, by cutting off the flower of the garlic plant we are forcing it to spend its energy making nice big garlic bulbs instead of flowers. Second, they taste great!Continue reading “Garlic Scapes”