The email from Heather at A Day In The Country said, “we started to pull the garlic today – will pull two more beds tomorrow if you want to come.”
A chance to drop by Missing Goat Organic Blueberry Farms, and see the garlic harvest, maybe pick up a few pounds of organic blueberries, and buy some more fresh batch jam?
Oh Heather, I am in there like a dirty shirt. Or a blueberry, or maybe a garlic bulb, anyways I am there!
Heather has a eye for details, and you can see it in every part of their gorgeous family farm. The Shabby Shack, as they call it, is the farms store front, and it is gorgeously decorated with fresh flowers, white washed walls, and clucking chickens outside. Any of us who long for that perfect place in the country would feel right at home here.
She makes masses of blueberry pies, each Saturday, so be sure to put your order in. She also offers small batch organic jam, made by hand in batches of only 6 jars at a time, and it shows. Blueberry/Lavender, Rhubarb/Rosemary, Strawberry/Pepper, Very Very Raspberry, with most of the ingredients grown on their own farm. I am working my way through all of the flavours and only have one left to try.
And the garlic, oh the garlic, organic, and ever so fragrant. It smells like real garlic, that pungent, elusive not from a grocery store smell that you only get when you grow it organically.
If you don’t live nearby, their products are for sale in various stores on the Lower Mainland, check the website for more details.
I took tons of photos, loved seeing the chickens running around, bought blueberries, jam, and garlic. And I can’t wait to go back and get a pie, that’s on my list of “to do” things.
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
I simply adore beautiful spaces like this...places where every detail is perfection and speaks of the owners, their values, their dreams, their spirit. The world needs more exquisite, less florescent. I wish I lived closer. I'd also be there in a heartbeat, nose to the garlic bulb, inhaling Heather's world.
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ReplyDeletelove it all!..
just awesome as only you can present..
appealing to all the senses!!
thanks for taking me along!!
warm sandy hugs!
Loui♥
What a wonderful place!! I just pulled my garlic a couple of weeks ago and it is finally dry. Today, I will cut the stems off and store in a net bag. It was my first experience in growing garlic and we only planted 5 bulbs. Next this fall I will plant again and plant lots more!
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ReplyDeleteI love the photos as they are beautifully captured.
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ReplyDeleteI can almost smell the garlic...all the way over here!
Have a wonderful weekend. ~Natalie
Every year my neighbor gives me garlic... From his completely organic garden. I'm going to have to take some Pix of it....its a magical place. Please take a picture of this Blueberry Pie....It sounds heavenly.
ReplyDeleteBuying direct from the farm is the best way to buy ANYTHING....oh and my mouth was watering at the thought of fresh organic garlic and BLUEBERRY PIES....uff...you´re dangerous Jen...writing about all these things plump girls like me can´t resist!! Too bad I live an ocean away I´d join you on putting in a pie order...mmmmm....now I am going to have to plan my own garlic next year and hope that we get a better harvest of blueberries in the woods next year then we have had this year- there was nothing this year! So weird...one year great, next not so great...
ReplyDeleteHave a super Saturday. I´ve been on holiday but I´m back now and ready to get caught up!!!
I hope to get over there next Saturday for some garlic...and whatever else I catches my eye, like everything!!!
ReplyDeleteSounds so idyllic.
So amazingly lovely! I think I'd like to live there.
ReplyDeleteI'm drooling at the thought of fresh blueberry pie. What a treat.
ReplyDeleteAh Jen - thank you for coming, and you are welcome any time. Your photos are lovely - as always! Let me know how the garlic tastes!!!
ReplyDeletelooking forward to seeing more of what you shot that day - the toes!
What a fabulous place - I want one of those pies!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great farm. The whimsical name alone makes you want to know more. I hope you had a great time and came away with some great goodies.
ReplyDeleteOh, wow. This is a horribly torturous post. Not fair, at all! Glad you had fun out there. It looks gorgeous and now, I'm really hungry for blueberry pie.
ReplyDeleteSo what happened to the goat, and is it still missing? Sounds like a wonderful place to visit! :)
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