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Sun Sprout FarmSun Sprout FarmOrganic Hardneck Garlic

2 heads

This German White garlic is a hardneck variety, known for its full flavor and firm, easy-to-peel cloves. This organic garlic spends the better part of a year in the ground: cloves go in during fall, root before the freeze, and size up for a midsummer harvest, after which the heads are cured for several weeks so they keep. The pungency only forms when a clove is cut or crushed, which is why minced raw garlic tastes sharp while whole roasted cloves turn sweet, mellow, and spreadable.

Mince it into dressings and marinades, soften it in olive oil to start nearly any savory dish, roast whole heads until the cloves collapse, or simmer peeled cloves in oil for confit. It pairs especially well with olive oil, lemon, hearty greens, and white beans.

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Sun Sprout FarmSun Sprout Farm

Chester, NY

Sun Sprout Farm is located on New York’s famous black dirt in Chester, NY. The land is being leased from the Chester Agricultural Center as part of an innovative farmland preservation project that provides long term, stable leases for high quality farmland.

Sun Sprout Farm is co-owned by Simon Ziegler and Madeleine Banulski who met in 2006 as volunteers at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills in Kimberton, PA, a living community that includes adults with developmental disabilities. Simon worked on the bio-dynamic dairy farm and Madeleine worked in the CSA garden, apple orchard and village cafe. After their two-year service, Simon returned to Germany in 2008 to study and obtain his bachelor’s degree in Organic Agriculture Science in Witzenhausen, Germany while Madeleine started going to nursing school in Philadelphia, PA. Simon came back to farm during his summer breaks every year, and worked on Riverbank Farm in Roxbury, CT with Madeleine as well as various CSA and community gardens in Philadelphia. Simon moved permanently from Germany to the US in 2011 and worked for six years as the field manager at Riverbank Farm, a fifteen-acre organic vegetable farm in Roxbury, CT.

They always dreamed of starting their own farm together. They have been in love with the Hudson Valley for a long time, and after several years of looking for the right place, found our destination in Chester, NY. Madeleine is a nurse and works on the farm part time while continuing her nursing career.