Organic Heritage Garlic Seed & Permaculture Food Forest
We planted a smaller garlic crop for 2012, but what a beauty it is. All the rain this spring and early summer, and good sunshine in the latter part of the summer has meant big healthy bulbs. Other factors might include that we used a no-till method on our garlic [...] Read more »
Hi everyone! We stored our garlic in our garage at Clear Sky this winter – which is part of our main building, and around 12-18C, and very dry (its not underground). Most of it has stored really well and is still in great condition, considering it was harvested nearly eight [...] Read more »
What is a permaculture strawberry? Its a strawberry harvested with minimum effort, inputs, fertilisers, pesticides, bird netting or irrigation, thats what! We’d given up on our strawberry patch this spring, thinking that the white clover seeded in the pathways had moved in and overwhelmed it, along with remnant quack grass [...] Read more »
Native Plants & wildlife enthusiasts joined us at Clear Sky on June 10th and 11th to learn how to recognize and identify local grasses. The workshop was taught by grasslands expert Don Gayton. Everyone also enjoyed a rare opportunity for early morning birding with wildlife biologist Peter Davidson. Read more »
This April, 2011 we had an AMAZING Permaculture Design Course (PDC) at Clear Sky, taught by Jesse Lemieux of Pacific Permaculture. This was the first ever PDC held in the East Kootenay of BC. Jesse completely surpassed our expectations with his dedication, focus & knowledge of permaculture & how it [...] Read more »
Some key ideas, concepts & practice from the workshop: Permaculture is more than keeping a Sustainable status quo. Its about moving from the Degenerative systems we live with now, to systems of Regeneration ! The industrial food system takes 10 calories of hydrocarbons to produce one calorie of food, and [...] Read more »
Our Garlic Scapes are currently maturing their Bulbils and are ready for order! This year we left a lot of our heritage garlic bulbs in the ground, intact with their scapes. They have now just about completed their growth into seed bulbils. Bulbils are delicious. One customer at the farmers [...] Read more »
Most growers in Canada plant their garlic seed in October. We generally start anywhere from mid September and stop by mid- October. If planted too late in the fall, the garlic will not start decent root growth until the following spring, which means they get off to a slower start. [...] Read more »