About The Garlic Farm
The Garlic Farm, the UK's premier grower of garlic and source of all things garlic
The Garlic Farm Description
Have a look at our website to see our extensive collection of garlic products! We've got chutneys, pickles and even a garlic beer!
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"All the world's a stage... “
Come join us this July and watch one of William Shakespeare's most famous heroines, Rosalind, as she makes her way in a world full of power, jealousy and tyranny in the wonderful ‘As you like it’! ✨
The performance will take place on the grassy slope behind The Garlic Farm Restaurant. Bring your own chair, beanbag or picnic rug and relax on the grass and enjoy this renowned Shakespeare comedy. ✨... Food & drink will be available to purchase from The Garlic Farm Restaurant before and during the event.
Adults tickets are £12 and under 16’s are £7. Get your tickets here: http://bit.ly/3195L34
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Flowers, flowers everywhere… Have you visited our Wild Flower Meadow yet? 🌾🌷 🌼
This beautiful meadow is full to the brim of glorious wildflowers, bumble bees and butterflies. Come and pay us a visit and see it for yourself. ☀️🐝🦋
Enjoy a cup of tea or delicious main meal in our restaurant and then take a wander around our farm. We’re open every day from 9am to 5pm. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Wood-fired pizza, live Gypsy jazz from Cat Skellington, Hugo Boswell and friends, and the lush surroundings of #TheGarlicFarm...do Sunday afternoons get any better than this?
Join us from 5-7pm for our music and pizza #SundaySessions, with a fully licensed bar available too. While you unwind, children can let off steam in the adjacent play area, or spot the red squirrels, free-ranging chickens and peacocks to be found wandering the grounds 🍕🍻🎶 #perfectSunday #weekendvibes #Islandlife Visit Isle of Wight
Our beautiful Allium Cafe will now be open from 5-8pm on Friday evenings throughout the summer, so you can come and let your hair down at the end of the week with a refreshing drink from our licensed bar, and a selection of light bites. On a balmy summer's evening, there's few prettier spots to unwind than in The Garlic Farm's peaceful courtyard, with your friends and the resident wildlife for company! 🦚🐿🐓
Tune in to Virgin Radio UK tomorrow morning to hear The Garlic Farm's Natasha Edwards talk to Chris Evans live from The Hut, Colwell Bay. on the sunny Isle of Wight. They'll be discussing all things #garlic from 8.30am! ⏰What better way to start your day?!
#ChrisEvansbreakfastshow #IsleofWightgarlic #garlicfarming #growgarlic
Our delectable garlic scapes are now available to pre-order online!
We hope to harvest our homegrown Elephant Garlic scapes (the long stem that hardneck garlic bulbs produce) this week, and already have some scapes available to buy from the farm shop now. If you've never eaten scapes before, just cook them as you would asparagus - they're delicious barbecued and make the perfect Bank Holiday BBQ treat!
Click the link below to pre-order your #scape supply from our website 👇🏼
We're nearing the end of the garlic growing season now, and most of our garlic is almost ready to harvest. But no matter how long we have been farming Isle of Wight garlic, nothing beats the excitement of seeing the garlic seed we planted back in the autumn ripen to perfection - and nothing beats the pleasure of eating food that you have grown yourself!
Garlic is probably one of the easiest crops to grow at home, and our latest blogs tells you all you need to know to #growyourown 🌱
👉🏽 https://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/…/tendi ng-to-your-garlic-cr…
For all those garlic lovers who are waiting for their first taste of the new season's garlic, green garlic makes a very special gourmet treat - and is in store now!
Also known as 'wet garlic', the immature garlic bulbs and edible green stalks are milder and lighter in flavour than fully ripe garlic, without the typical spiciness of mature garlic. Green garlic can be enjoyed raw or cooked: substitute the bulbs for spring onions, chives or leeks in your cooking, or try our recipe for sautéed green garlic by following the link below.
This vibrant dish makes a zingy accompaniment to meat and fish, or serve the cooked greens on a bed of rice for a delicious #plantbased meal. If you can't find any dandelion greens, just replace with fresh rocket. #garlicrecipes #greengarlic #plantbasedeating
Lewis Carroll’s White Queen famously dictated that “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today”...to which Alice indignantly protested. And rightly so!
Our savoury jams are far too delicious to put off until tomorrow, and we like to use them as much more than just a condiment. Add a spoonful to stir-fries, or eat with savoury muffins and bacon sandwiches. Create a delicious traybake of roasted vegetables by glazing the veg halfway through cooking with Garlic Jam with Red Chilli. Or, for a killer gravy, stir some Roast Garlic Jam into roast meat juices before thickening. #jamtoday #garlictreats
Available in our farm shop and online here 👉🏼 https://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/buy/chutn eys-condiments
If you're already a fan of our #BlackGarlic snack tubs, but fancy a more substantial bite, try our no-bake recipe for Black Garlic Energy Balls.
Made with carrots, dates, protein-packed nuts and coconut oil, along with a generous helping of sweet black garlic cloves, these flavoursome treats are sugar-free, #vegan and #glutenfree. They're a seriously tasty way to boost flagging energy levels and up your daily garlic intake. Recipe on the website now! 👩🍳
Join us at the famous Goodwood Racecourse on Thursday 23rd-Saturday 25th May, for their annual celebration of food and horse-racing: the #GoodwoodFoodShow May Festival.
The Garlic Farm's Natasha Edwards will be appearing at the Demo Kitchen on The Food Lawn, talking about all things garlic, and our stand will be laden with all our favourite garlic produce. Do come and say hello!
Advance tickets can be purchased online for £20 (children go free) 👉https://www.goodwood.com
... #garlicevents #IsleofWightgarlic #horseracing
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With two bank holidays in the month, longer, sunnier days at last, and a wealth of seasonal local produce available, May is full of treats...and our garlic-infused range of MAY-onnaises is definitely one of them!
We love to eat new-season asparagus with a generous scoop of #BlackGarlic Mayonnaise with Lemon - also fabulous with seafood, such as British crab. Garlic Mayonnaise with Mint is perfect served with Jersey Royal potatoes or barbecued lamb, while our Limited Edition chilli mayo has just the right ratio of spice to sauce. Try our Toasted Garlic Mayonnaise as a delicious dip for raw crudités, such as radishes and carrots, or pep up a lunchtime sandwich with our classic creamy #garlicmayonnaise.
The full #Mayonnaise range is available in store and online here 👉🏽https://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/b uy/garlic-mayonnaise
Last minute Isle of Wight Festival accommodation at the Garlic Farm. Just 10 minutes from the festival site by car. One yurt and one cottage both sleeping up to 6. Thursday - Monday booking. https://secure.supercontrol.co.uk/av…/a vailability_grid.asp…
If you're longing for some home-cooked comfort food but don't have time to rustle up a meal for the family, pick one of our NEW delicious ready-meals from our chiller cabinet - cooked by The Garlic Farm's own restaurant chefs to original recipes from the Boswell family archives.
Choose from a hearty Cottage Pie, authentic moussaka, vegetable lasagne or creamy fish pie, knowing that the quality ingredients we use deliver the wholesome, home-cooked flavour your family will love. Each meal feeds 4-6 people and is served in an attractive, ovenproof ceramic dish 🍽😋 Which will you try first?
#gourmetgarlic #gourmetreadymeals #comfortfood #yum
Calling all creative chefs!
Take a bunch of scrumptious scapes from The Garlic Farm's fabulous #ElephantGarlic crop and use them to devise a winning recipe that will wow our judge, Josephine Boswell, with its flavour and ingenuity. You'll be starting with a fantastic raw material, and whether you decide to roast, steam, barbecue, liquidise, ferment, shred or puree your selection of scapes, we look forward to seeing what gorgeous gourmet ideas you come up with.
The winner will... receive a #GarlicFarm hamper, as well as promotion of their restaurant on our social media channels. Please contact enquiries@thegarlicfarm.co.uk to request your free 1kg of scape samples (entries for recipes close mid-July). Happy cooking! 👨🍳🌱👩🍳
#competition #garliccompetition #cookingcompetition #creativechefs #MasterScape
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In a few short weeks, we shall be harvesting #scapes here at the farm. These are the long edible stems of maturing hardneck garlic bulbs, such as Elephant Garlic. Trimming the stems diverts the plants' energy back into the garlic bulb, producing the biggest, tastiest garlic possible. But the scapes are a delicacy in themselves, and delicious in all kinds of recipes:
🌱 Try roasting or barbecuing scapes as you might asparagus. 🌱 Chop and lightly fry them, then stir into salads ...or through pasta dishes and risottos. 🌱 Stir-fry a whole tangle of scapes, and serve with aioli dipping sauce. 🌱 Replace basil with finely chopped scapes to make a subtly flavoured pesto. 🌱 Snip into softened butter, and spread on baguettes to make a less pungent version of garlic bread.
See our online Recipe Resource for more culinary ideas on cooking scapes 🍽 #garlicrecipes #cookingwithgarlic #howtocookscapes #garlicscapes
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If you live near Bristol or can easily get there, look out for our very own Jo Boswell who'll be taking to the stage at Bristol Food Connections event on Saturday June 15th.
Come and hear Jo talk all about garlic scapes, explaining exactly what they are and how to cook them. If you've not yet tasted scapes, you're missing out on a rare culinary treat...we think of them as the asparagus of the garlic world!
This free event runs from 4-4.45 pm and will give you the inside scoop on these wonderful delicacies. #scapes #garlicevents #Bristolfoodscene
This time next week, we'll be enjoying the first May Bank Holiday of the month and hopefully basking in a return of the sunshine we so enjoyed at Easter 😎🌞⛱ There's still time to stock up on your favourite garlic goodies for a May Day barbecue or picnic, and we've made it easy for you with our #SummerBBQHamper , which contains all the essentials:
🌶Sweet Chilli and Garlic Dipping Sauce: fabulous with cold seafood or chicken drumsticks
🔥Barbecue Sauce with Garlic: would you wa...nt to have a BBQ without this?!
🍅Tomato Ketchup with Garlic: for burgers, sausages, or stuffed Portobello mushrooms if you're cooking a #veganBBQ
🍶Garlic Mayonnaise: for new potato salad or cold cuts of meat
🍯Horseradish Mustard: brilliant with beef, but also great with smoked fish such as mackerel
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