Garlic Harvest

This happened about a week ago...the amazing harvesting of garlic...that plant we all seem to love which does not fit in the vegetable or fruit category. No one seems to know what to call this great, flavorful species, a part of the allium family....but it is good...and how wonderful to pull it up from the earth...sending it's fragrant aroma everywhere...

The harvest begins with share holders coming out to help pull the garlic up out of its home in the soil
young and old are put to work...gabriella is as good a harvester as any...

the tracor is loaded up with lugs, to be taken to the barn for curing
the harvest done it is time to begin the hanging

the barn is full of garlic

We begin to hang it from the rafters...creating a ceiling of garlic

The work is done....one month until it is dried and ready to be consumed!