03/22/2022
Garlic has been one of my favorite crops to plant, tend and harvest the past 2 years ive been farming. The planting is usually windy, cold elements in the late fall, one of the last to be planted.
This is also the first print ivw made in exactly one year, it felt amazing to draw, carve and print.
A lovely fellow farmer and dear friend told me she thinks of planting garlic as tucking the farm into bed. She told me she plants each seed with a prayer, a hope for something. I adopted this when working last year and tucked each prayer into the beds, prayers for the ones i love, the ones i lost, what is to be or hoped to be, together we tucked the farm into bed.
This year i planted garlic and shared my story of planting with folks if they wanted to adopt my method. The day was unusually warm, so many lovely folks showed up to help with planting, we laughed and shared great conversation tucking the farmacy into bed.
Garlic is so hearty, it needs the dark, cold of winter to shoot up scapes which are harvested in spring, beautiful full bulbs that are harvested in early summer. It needs the winter like we need the retreat of winter, the hibernation, the reflection.
Garlic harvest this year was hot, long but i managed to take a few moments to reflect on the prayers i tucked it, alot had come into fruition.
A few women sat around processing that garlic for seed, telling stories, laughing in the barn together this summer. These are my tribe of strong, hearty women farmers, just like garlic they keep showing up for the land, eachother and the community
Ive been truly blessed to become a steward of the land with these wise women and plant garlic as farmers have for so many years in the fall.
Prints upon request/$10
