Family Fun Farm Tour – Garlic Festival
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| One of the booths had this sign |
On Saturday, August 25th I had the privilege to attend the Garlic Festival held in Carnarvon, Ontario.
I was there with SIRCH Community Services Farm Tour.
While I was at the festival I got to enjoy some of the wonderful samples that the booths had to offer and was able to take part in learning how to braid garlic with all the moms that attended the festival with the Farm Tour.
Some of the photos that you are going to see are of the booths and the braiding activity.
While the mom's and I walked around and got to meet all the wonderful venders we also got to learn a little about how to plant the garlic and when is the best time to harvest it, we tasted some amazing items that were made with garlic and were able to take home some yummy things.
The first booth that we went to was Highland Garlic. They had wonderful array of Jams and Jellies as well as some amazing Spreads and Pesto's that are all made with Garlic or Garlic Scape (The green tops of garlic) I was able to try a few of them and I must say I fell in love with the 5 Cheese Spread. It was delicious.
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| Some of their Jams and Jellies |
Hunter Green was also in attendance with their wonderful display of home made “garlic” earrings. These earrings are made and sculpted in a special clay and look just like a head of garlic. They were also selling garlic seeds so that you can grow your own and Garlic Chive/ Onion bunches.
She also told us that you have to harvest the garlic by August.
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| Talking with Hunter Green |
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| Garlic Chive/ Onion bunches |
I was also lucky enough to learn how to braid garlic with the other mothers that were at this tour.
This was a wonderful experience and I would love nothing more then to get the chance to do this activity again.
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| Being told how to clean the Garlic |
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| Cleaning their Garlic |
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| Getting ready to braid |
There were so many booths and vendors, that there are just too many to go into detail about, but I will list the rest of them with photos and let you know what they were selling. So please be warned there are going to be a lot of photos after this.
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| Towering Pines Market Garden had amazing Garlic Rolls you could smell them this far away |
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| Sybil's (everyone called him the Curry Man) |
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| Some of the sauces Sybil's had for sale www.sybils.ca |
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| Wall Flower Studio sold Seeds, Bulbs and Herbs |
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| Whippoorwill Farm had Garlic and Oregano Braided together as well as Yummy Mummy Emporium was there selling some wonderful baby items |
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| Trying one an anklet at Hand Crafted Jewelry |
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| Lavender Studios |
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| Heritage Hill Apiary was selling some of their Honey and I tried their Herbal Honey with Garlic, Ginger and Hot Chili and I would recommend buying some, it's so good |
Some of the participants told me what they thought of this Tour.
Awesome, lots of fun, this was more hands on this time.
~ Katie (Parent)
I had a Garlistic good time.
~Terri-Lynn (Parent)
There is another Farm Tour taking place Saturday, September 15th, 2012 at Windy Meadows Farm this is a working farm that has cattle, pigs, chickens and more.
To register or to request more information for any of the upcoming Farm Tours please contact Debbie or Daniela at SIRCH Community Services at 705-457-1742
For the official Event Page for the Windy Meadows Farm Tour please click this link
To learn more about SIRCH Community Services and the services that they offer please visit their website.
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