Organic Gardening Info from Peaceful Valley

With garlic harvest & curing in full swing, we’re cooking with organic garlic every day! Here are a few of our staff’s favorite recipes. Please share your favorites with us by leaving a “comment” below. Enjoy!

Herbed Garlic Feta Spread (or salad topper)

Combine 2 cups of feta cheese, 4 cloves of minced garlic, and 2 tablespoons of minced fresh herbs like basil or oregano. Spread on thin slices of French bread or crackers. Or drop small clumps on fresh garden greens for a zesty salad.

Summer Squash Garlic Grill Marinade

Mince 4 cloves of garlic and mix it with a pinch of fine salt. Allow it to sit for a minute (the salt will help bring out the garlic flavor). Mix with1/4 cup of olive oil and add any other herbs you enjoy grilling with. Slice zucchinis, yellow summer squashes, and patty pan squashes into broad 1/4″ slices. Brush both sides with the garlic marinade, grill for about 3 minutes on each side and enjoy.

Oven Roasted Garlic Rosemary Potatoes

Toss some small potatoes or cubed potatoes with 10 whole peeled garlic cloves, some rosemary, olive oil and salt. Bake in a glass dish for 45 minutes at 350 and enjoy as a side dish.

One of the main things we hope this site becomes is a center of reference for information.

In that vein I would like to encourage you to respond to our posts here, and if you have any questions at all to respond… together we can learn and share organic wisdom!

Our staff of gardening experts here will always be around to contribute as well!

On that note, I want to introduce our very first query, which was submitted to me by a reader in the mountains of New Mexico. Maybe we can help out and give feedback and solutions, thoughts, advice, wisdom…

“This is exciting! SO will this be a place to ask questions etc? I am just starting out with organic gardening. Have a small greenhouse and don’t know how to use it. Live at 7200 feet up in the mountains of New Mexico. A real challenge growing as our season is short here. I am eager to sell at local farmers markets. Herbs grow well here. Any advice would be appreciated!

CJ”

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