Wild Garlic Season begins
03 March 2014
Wild Garlic starts to appear at this time of year and it is a seasonal treat not to be missed!
It is a long slim green leaf that is wonderful for adding either raw into salads, or to stir-fries or at the last minute into slower cooked dishes
We get our wild garlic from Martin at Ripple Farm, who picks his wild Garlic from Burscome cliff Organic Farm, a livestock Farm approximately 8 miles from his own Ripple Farm. It is truly wild and not cultivated at all, and in return for allowing Martin to harvest the wild garlic, Martin lets them take some of his waste veg for livestock feed (often potatoes).
It grows abundantly in about 2 acres of woods and Martin aims to move around the woods from year to year so as not to stress any one patch. the only drawback is access is poor so its quite a physical time consuming task to go and harvest it. (Lots of carrying!)
