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Keene Organics of Wisconsin
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Keene and Cindy Hollenbeck and sons - click to enlarge.
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Keene Organics Table of Contents [ Georgian Fire ] [ German Extra Hardy ] [ German Red ] [ Inchelium Red ] [ Italian Late ] [ Lorz Italian ] [ Music ] [ NY White ] [ Purple Glazer ] [ Romanian Red ] [ Siberian ] [ Silverwhite ] [ Simoneti ] [ Slovenian ] [ Spanish Roja ] [ Tzan ] [ - Garlic Scapes in early Summer - ] - Sampler Assortments - [ Medium to strong sampler Assortment ] [ Gourmet Garlic Sampler Assortment ] [ All-Hardneck Sampler Assortment ] |
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Keene Organics Keene Organics is a Certified Organic family farm of Marshall,WI, located in low rolling hills near Madison in South central Wisconsin. In addition to many different kinds of gourmet garlic we also growa variety of vegetables, berries, herbs and hickory nuts that we sell at Madison's local farmers markets, restaurants and small grocery stores. We also raise pastured meat chicken and free-range eggs. We live a sustainable lifestyle and would never use any petrochemical or toxic soil additives anymore than we would grow GMO plants. We won't subject our children to toxins nor yours either. We sustainably manage our soil to ensure that we have the proper balance of nutrients and minerals to produce the healthiest vegetables, garlic, berries, and herbs. |
MOSA Certified Organic.
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How to buy from us: Scroll down and select the number of pounds you want and click on "Add to Cart" on all those you want to buy. Order now for shipment in late summer/early fall 2012. The garlic prices range from $16 to $24 per pound plus shipping and handling charges of $10 for the first pound, $2 for each of the next three pounds and $1 extra for each additional pound over that and we ship via U. S. Postal Service, Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation, to make sure you get your package. Our S & H charge is a weighted national average so that all buyers pay the same S & H regardless of distance from grower. These S & H fees apply to each grower you buy from.
This Farmers market is like your local farmers market.
For those who don't want to take the time to place a separate order with each grower, we will do it for you if you wish but there will be a service fee. Just order what you want from as many growers as you want on a single order and when we process the order we will charge your card the necessary additional S & H charges plus a service fee of $10.00 for each separate grower involved - there's lot of clerical work involved.
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Garlics we offer for sale this year:
Amish (Hardneck Rocambole garlic) from Keene Organics Amish is a Rocambole garlic with a rich, musky, garlicky flavor and is very hot when eaten raw. Rocambole garlics have brownish-purplish bulb wrappers and easy to peel brownish clove covers and so does Amish. Rocamboles are valued for being early harvesting full flavored garlics that you can enjoy while waiting for the longer storing ones to mature and harvest. Amish's cloves are all of similar large size with no small cloves. Usually harvests in late June/early July and stores into mid-winter at room temp. Grows great in the northernmost locales but the further south you get the more difficult they are to grow and forget about growing them in the south. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Bavarian -
A rich, musky Rocambole hardneck Garlic from Keene Organics Harvests early in summer - stores into mid-winter. Order now for shipment in the fall. Finally! Someone has a delicious Rocambole that is not hot. Bavarian is an early harvesting, richly flavored lightly pungent garlic that grows well in cold winter areas. In addition to being early harvesting, it is very easy peeling and stores long enough to be planted in the fall but not much longer. Grows consistently large bulbs with large cloves Bavarian ranks 7-9 on the garlickiness scale and 1-2 on the pungency side. It has a very rich, musky, earthy flavor with only a little bite, if what I taste tested last year was its normal taste. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Belarus (Hardneck Purple Stripe garlic) from Keene Organics Attractive, delicious & one of the best roasting garlics. Plants produce flat-bottomed, purple-striped bulbs with 8-12 tall, crescent-shaped, dark red-skinned , easy to peel cloves. Stores longer than most other hardnecks and has out-performed most of our other hardnecks. We started with only 10 pounds a few years ago and harvested over 300 pounds in 2009. Usually harvests in late June/early July and stores into spring at room temp. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Brown Tempest (Hardneck Purple Stripe) from Keene Organics Farms Brown Tempest is another beautiful Marbled Purple Stripe garlic rich and very hot flavor. Great bulbs of fire. Grows well in most of the USA. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Chamiskuri (softneck Artichoke garlic) from Keene Organics Grows very well in most of the USA and can even be grown in warm winter areas quite well. Harvests early in summer - stores into mid-winter.
Chamiskuri is an early-mid season harvesting medium-rich flavored and medium pungent softneck Artichoke with straw-colored clove covers
and sometimes a lot of purplish color to the bulb wrappers, depending on weather. Excellent all-around garlic that can be braided.
Chamiskuri stores into mid-winter. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Chesnok Red (hardneck Purple Stripe garlic) from Keene Organics Chesnok Red is a beautiful Purple Stripe garlic rich medium flavor that becomes very sweet when baked. Grows well in most of the USA.
Chesnok Red is a beautiful very rich flavored and moderately pungent Purple Stripe garlic with a lot of purplish color to the bulb wrappers.
Harvests in late June - stores all winter long. Grows well in most of the USA except the warmest winter areas of the country. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Georgian Fire (Hardneck Porcelain garlic) from Keene Organics Georgian Fire is another beautiful Porcelain garlic with a rich garlicky flavor and is very hot when raw. Most Porcelain garlics are parchment white and straw-colored clove covers and Georgian Fire is no exception. Georgian Fire is a beautiful very long storing garlic with a very rich garlicky flavor that grows well in most areas of the USA Grows great in the northernmost locales. Usually harvests in late June/early July and stores into spring at room temp. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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German Extra Hardy (cold winter hardneck Porcelain garlic) from Keene Organics German Extra Hardy is a big, robust, strong, full flavored, hardy, long storing hardneck garlic. If you grow Rocamboles or other earlier harvesting, shorter storing garlics, you should also be growing this long storing classic hardneck. Grows well in most areas of the USA but not the gulf coast or So. Cal. Usually harvests in mid summer and stores into mid spring at room temp. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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German Red, a hardneck Rocambole from Keene Organics Harvests in early summer - stores into winter. German Red is a Rocambole that is prized for its deep rich musky, earthy garlickiness as well as a hot bite when eaten raw.
Rocamboles grow well only in cold winter areas and store into mid-winter. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Inchelium Red (softneck Artichoke garlic) from Keene Organics Inchelium Red is an early-mid season harvesting medium-rich flavored and medium pungent softneck Artichoke with straw-colored clove covers and sometimes a lot of purplish color to the bulb wrappers, depending on weather. Excellent all-around garlic that can be braided. Inchelium Red stores into mid-winter. It is good to grow these along with earlier and later harvesting varieties so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Grows very well in most of the USA and can even be grown in warm winter areas quite well. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Italian Late (Softneck Artichoke garlic) from Keene Organics Italian Late is a semi-early harvesting very rich flavored and hotly pungent Artichoke softneck garlic with straw-colored clove covers and parchment-like bulb wrappers. It is good to grow these along with Ajo Rojo so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Being an Artichoke garlic, Italian Late is an excellent braider and is adaptable to a wide range of climates and is a good garlic for growing in warm winter areas. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Lorz Italian (Softneck Artichoke garlic) from Keene Organics Lorz Italian is an semi-early harvesting very rich flavored and hotly pungent Artichoke softneck garlic with straw-colored clove covers and parchment-like bulb wrappers. It is good to grow these along with Ajo Rojo so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Being an Artichoke garlic, Lorz Italian is an excellent braider and is adaptable to a wide range of climates and is a good garlic for growing in warm winter areas. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Music (cold winter hardneck Porcelain garlic) from Keene Organics Most Porcelain garlics are parchment white but Music is an exception and can have some nice pink color to it. Music is a beautiful very long storing garlic with a very rich garlicky flavor that is only moderately hot when eaten raw but not overly hot. Grows well in most areas of the USA but grows great in the northernmost locales. Usually harvests in late June/early July and stores into spring at room temp. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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New York White -
A rich, musky mellow Garlic from Keene Organics Harvests early in summer - stores into mid-winter. It has long been an upstate New York gardener's favorite because it is an early harvesting, richly flavored light-to medium pungency garlic that grows almost anywhere. In addition, its parchment-like bulb wrappers make it a very good braiding garlic. NY White is an excellent early season braider for northern gardeners - they mature a month or two before the Silverskins. It's a very good grower's garlic as it has many large cloves (even the innermost cloves are of good size) and it stores well. New York White ranks 6-8 on the garlickiness scale and 3-4 on the pungency side. It has a rather rich, musky, earthy flavor and a little bite, but is still on the light side. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Purple Glazer (hardneck Glazed Purple Stripe garlic) from Keene Organics Purple Glazer is a beautiful Purple Stripe garlic rich medium flavor that becomes very sweet when baked. Grows well in most of the USA.
Purple Glazer is a beautiful very rich flavored and moderately pungent Purple Stripe garlic with a lot of purplish color to the bulb wrappers.
Harvests in late June/early July - stores all winter long. Purple Glazer is one of the tallest garlics and grows well in most of the USA except the warmest winter areas of the country. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Romanian Red (Hardneck Porcelain garlic) from Keene Organics Harvests in mid summer - stores into spring. Romanian Red is another beautiful Porcelain garlic with a rich garlicky flavor and is usually the hottest of all garlics when raw. These roman candles are hot! Most Porcelain garlics are parchment white and straw-colored clove covers but Romanian Red is an exception as they have more color and sometimes more cloves than other Porcelain garlics. Romanian Red is a beautiful very long storing garlic with a very rich garlicky flavor that is fiery hot when eaten raw. Grows well in most areas of the USA, grows great in the northernmost locales. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Siberian (Hardneck) a gentle giant from Keene Organics Siberian is another beautiful Marbled Purple Stripe garlic rich and mild flavor. Great bulbs of smooth flavor. Grows well in most of the USA. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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A rich, musky mellow Braiding Garlic from Keene Organics Silverwhite has long been a favorite because it is a late harvesting, richly flavored light-to medium pungency garlic that grows almost anywhere. In addition to being very long storing its parchment-like bulb wrappers make it a very good braiding garlic. Finally, a great braider that stores like a rock and grows well for northern gardeners - this one excels in central Wisconsin. Silverwhite ranks 6-8 on the garlickiness scale and 3-4 on the pungency side. It has a rather rich, musky, earthy flavor and a little bite, but is still on the light side. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Simoneti (Softneck Artichoke garlic) from Keene Organics Simoneti is an early harvesting mellow and faintly pungent Artichoke softneck garlic that is excellent for raw eating, like pesto. Simoneti has parchment-like bulb wrappers and makes a good braider.
Early harvesting garlic that stores into mid-winter. Grows well in almost all of the USA, including both far northern and deep southern areas. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Slovenian -
A rich, musky yet mild Rocambole hardneck Garlic from Keene Organics Harvests early in summer - stores into mid-winter. Finally! Someone has a delicious Rocambole that is not hot. Great news for pesto lovers. Slovenian is an early harvesting, richly flavored lightly pungent garlic that grows well in cold winter areas. In addition to being early harvesting, it is very easy peeling and stores long enough to be planted in the fall but not much longer. Grows consistently large bulbs with large cloves Slovenian ranks 7-9 on the garlickiness scale and 1-2 on the pungency side. It has a very rich, musky, earthy flavor with only a little bite, if what I taste tested last year was its normal taste. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Spanish Roja (Hardneck Rocambole garlic) from Keene Organics Spanish Roja is a Rocambole garlic with a rich, musky, garlicky flavor and is very hot when eaten raw. Rocambole garlics have brownish-purplish bulb wrappers and easy to peel brownish clove covers and so does Spanish Roja. Rocamboles are valued for being early harvesting full flavored garlics that you can enjoy while waiting for the longer storing ones to mature and harvest. Spanish Roja's cloves are all of similar large size with no small cloves. Usually harvests in late June/early July and stores into mid-winter at room temp. Grows great in the northernmost locales but the further south you get the more difficult they are to grow and forget about growing them in the south. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Tzan (a Turban? garlic) from Keene Organics Tzan originated in the Shan Dong province of China and is an early harvesting very rich flavored and hotly pungent garlic with straw-colored clove covers and some color in its bulb wrappers. This year we hope to resolve the question as to whether it is an Artichoke, Asiatic or Turban garlic. What we know for sure is that this is a good, flavorful, hot, strong early harvesting garlic. It is good to grow these along with Ajo Rojo or a Porcelain or Silverskin so you can have both early season and long storing kinds. You may not ever run out of good garlic. Being an early season garlic, Tzan is adaptable to a wide range of climates and is a good garlic for growing in warm winter areas as well as cold winter areas, especially in conjunction with later harvesting long storing varieties. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Gourmet Food Items
- Garlic Scapes from Keene Organics-
Available only in late spring/early summer, around summer solstice, for immediate use. - sorry, no more garlic scapes available FOR 2011. - Scapes are stalk-like growths that form in hardneck varieties of garlic in the spring and form bulbil capsules at their tops if left to maturity. Scapes are highly prized for being much more delicately flavored and less pungent than mature garlic. When scapes first form they are delicately garlicky and tender and succulent and crisp when eaten raw. The longer they age; however, the more chewy they become until they eventually become fibrous and less desireable to eat so they need to be enjoyed fairly soon as they don't remain at their prime long. They store well in the refrigerator's crisper for a couple of weeks or so but then become progressively chewier. Scapes are highly sought after because they have many of the things people like about garlic but have a distinctly milder and more delicate flavor. Most importantly, they are available in the spring when no other form of decent garlic has been available for months. Not only are they an oasis in a desert but their delicate flavor makes them a doubly welcome treat. When eaten raw, scapes have a milder taste with a mellow shallot-like flavor to it although some can be quite sharp and with a distinctively pleasant aftertaste. All scapes do not taste the same, some cultivars are milder or stronger than others just like in the mature bulbs. Order now for shipment in the late spring or early summer. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point,
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- Sampler Assortments -
Medium to Strong Sampler Assortment from Keene Organics Harvests in mid summer - some store into spring or longer. An assortment of medium to stronger garlics for those who prefer garlicky flavor and pungency when raw. Varieties may include German Extra Hardy, Amish, Music, Purple Glazer, Silverwhite or Spanish Roja among others. At present we have only Inchelium Red and Chesnok Red that we can put in sampler assortments as we are sold out of all other garlics. Grows well in most areas of the USA because we select the varieties for your area. grows great in the northernmost locales. Order now for shipment in the fall.
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Gourmet Garlic Sampler Assortment from Keene Organics Harvests in mid summer - some store into spring or longer. An assortment of milder through medium and hotter, stronger garlics for those who prefer a wide range of garlicky flavor and pungency when raw. Varieties may include Bavarian, Belarus, Chesnok Red, German Red, Music, NY White, Purple Glazer, Slovenian or Silverwhite among others. Grows well in most areas of the USA because we select the varieties for your area. Some grow great in the northernmost locales while others do well in the south and west. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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All Hardnecks Sampler Assortment from Keene Organics Harvests in mid summer - some store into spring. An assortment of mostly medium to strong garlics for those who prefer garlicky flavor and pungency when raw. Varieties may include Chesnok Red, Amish, German Extra Hardy Persian Star, Bavarian, Georgian Fire and Spanish Roja among others. Grows best in the northerly locales, not recommended for warm winter areas. Order now for shipment in the fall. After ordering, use your back arrow key to return to this point, otherwise the secure shopping cart will return you to Gourmet Garlic Gardens' home page.
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Important notes for credit/debit card users:
This Farmers market is like your local farmers market.
For those who don't want to take the time to place a separate order with each grower, we will do it for you if you wish. Just order what you want from as many growers as you want on a single order and when we process the order we will charge your card the necessary additional S & H charges plus a service fee of $10.00 for each separate grower involved due to the excess clerical work entailed. If you buy from a grower and later cancel that order for any reason, the credit card processing gateway still charges Gourmet Garlic Gardens the full processing fee plus an additional fee of the same amount for processing the cancellation and also it places an additional clerical burden on us so, regretably, we must charge a 15% cancellation fee when processing the cancellation because that's about what it costs us. My advice is to look around among the various growers and decide what to buy from whom and then place your orders and stick with the growers you have chosen.
Disclaimer
Prices and availability of garlic subject to change without notice.
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How Our Garlics are Grown All the garlic for sale in our online farmers market was grown without the use of petrochemical pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers; only natural and non-toxic fertilizers and pest control methods are used. Some of our growers are Certified Organic and some are Certified Naturally Grown, which we regard as equal to Certified Organic in every meaningful way but without all the bureaucratic entanglements. All our farmers market growers grow organically and some are Certified Organic but not all want to be certified Organic because of the paperwork and reporting requirements and are among the best available sources of sustainable/ organic Garlic and they become Certified Naturally Grown, where the regulation comes from their fellow members rather than a federal bureacracy. We do not allow growers who use synthetic petroleum-based fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides or herbicides to participate in our farmers market.
All garlic in our farmers market is grown in the USA, no imports allowed.
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