And now comes the prepping

The time-consuming job of preparing our garlic for sale.  It will begin to be available for sale next week.  For pricing and how to order visit our website.

New Garlic Crop available for sale 1 November 2019

It's been busy at the farm harvesting this year's garlic crop.  We harvested half the paddock by hand, the other half by trialing a new machine.  The crop is looking good and will be available for sale through our website.

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Garlic Harvester

2019 new crop

HEALTHY GARLIC OIL

Healthy Garlic Oil - from the book "Omega 3 Cuisine" by Alan Roettinger with Udo Erasmus

Several companies now produce oils infused with various flavours, such as basil or garlic. Commercially, where the health benefits are not considered paramount (if at all), infusion is accomplished by heating the oil with various aromatics. In order to protect the fragile qualities of Udo’s Oil, the same results will be obtained without heating, in some cases by increasing the quantity of the flavouring agents. The procedure is quite simple, as you will see.

If you like garlic, this will immediately become a staple in your kitchen. It’s the quickest and easiest oil infusion, requiring no straining, decanting, or any other monkeying around. Properly steamed vegetables really need nothing else. Merely drizzle some of this oil on them and you will have a dish that anyone will eat with pleasure. It’ll turn pedestrian mashed potatoes into something truly special. Keep some of this on hand in your refrigerator and you’ll discover countless uses for it. It’s a standard ingredient in many of the recipes in this book.

Makes about 1 cup

4 to 7 cloves garlic (see note)

1 cup Udo’s Choice 3 6 9

Oil Blend

Pass the garlic cloves through a garlic press into a small jar. Add the oil and stir. Pour into a clean glass jar or bottle. Simple Garlic Udo’s Oil will keep for about 1 week in the refrigerator or 1 month in the freezer.

Barrington River Organic Farm Garlic

PITEBA MANUAL OIL PRESS

The trees are full - it's the perfect time to pick, press or pickle your olives.

Our Piteba manual oil press is designed to press oil from nuts such as walnuts, coconuts, and for seeds such as sunflower, sesame, and many more oilseeds.  All seeds and nuts with more than 25% oil can be processed with the standard device.  For Olive Oil, the Piteba Olive Oil D Nut is also required.  Both are available for purchase in Australia through our sister company, NTP Health Products. BUY ONLINE 

Piteba Oil Press with D Nut for pressing olives

OUR CERTIFIED ORGANIC GARLIC

Our Certified Organic garlic is shooting up through the soil - only planted a month ago and it's looking good after much-needed rain.

Garlic a month after planting

Find out more at our website Barrington River Organic Farm

Autumn in the Orchard

Beautiful sunny Autumn days in the orchard.

Pomegranate Trees

Quinces

Pomegranates

Grapefruit Trees

Orange Trees

OUR 2019 GARLIC CROP IS IN THE GROUND

This week we planted out our 2019 garlic crop.  Because of the extremely dry weather conditions over the past months, we did not have enough mulch to cover all the beds. This year for the first time we have used weed mat on a couple of rows.  The remaining rows are heavily mulched.  This crop should be ready for harvest in November 2019.

The 2019 garlic crop