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

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

CITRONS

It's citrus time at our farm - these beauties are citrons from the orchard. Citrons are one of the four original citrus fruits from which all other citrus types developed.

The citron is a large fragrant citrus fruit with a thick rind.  It is one of the four original citrus fruits (the others being pomelo, mandarin and papeda) from which all other citrus types developed through natural hybrid selection or artificial hybridization.

While the lemon or orange are peeled to consume their pulpy and juicy segments, the citron's pulp is dry, containing a small quantity of juice, if any. The main content of a citron fruit is the thick white rind which is delicious to eat raw and is used in many ways around the world, such as in sweets, jams, pickles, preserves.

Citron

There is an increasing market for the citron for the soluble fibre (pectin).

Planting out the 2017 Garlic Crop

A busy crew on Easter Monday and Tuesday planting out the 2017 garlic crop.  It will be ready for harvest in October.

OUR 2016 CROP OF TURMERIC IS NOW AVAILABLE

Our new crop of Certified Organic Turmeric has now been processed for sale. Order Online here. Wholesale enquiries are welcome.  Contact us through our web site or visit our Facebook page

CERTIFIED ORGANIC TURMERIC NOW AVAILABLE

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Preparing Turmeric for sale

EASTER AT THE FARM

Easter - a time for relaxation and reflection.  The garlic has been planted, the farm is lush and green. Our designated camping area is full of our children, grandchildren, our friends, their friends.  We have our fingers crossed that the sun is going to shine.

GROWING GARLIC WITH BIODYNAMICS

Garlic Growers in our area plant out their crops over Autumn. Our crop is in the ground and growing beautifully, ready to be harvested late October, early November.

What do you need to do to grow garlic biodynamically?

If a green manure crop has been grown on beds, brush cut the crop, then mulch mow it and if you don’t want to dig it in, spray it with either Manure Concentrate or Combined Soil Preparation, then you can apply a layer of biodynamic compost, worm castings or your choice of organic fertiliser (blood and bone, dynamic lifter etc). Water this in and cover the beds with a thick layer (200 ml) of mulch (old pasture hay is great). Leave for 4-6 weeks, then pull mulch aside and plant garlic cloves. Apply another spray of Combined Soil Preparation or Soil Activator when mulch has been pulled aside for planting before re-applying.

Those who are cultivating their beds, apply Biodynamic Soil Activator or Combined Soil Preparation to the soil after cultivation and again at planting.

Garlic cloves will benefit from being soaked overnight before planting in stirred biodynamic soil preparation (whatever you are using).

When the garlic shoots are 100 ml high, you can spray the crop with Horn Silica.

When the crop has started taking off again in Spring, apply a biodynamic soil spray, followed by Horn Silica in the morning. Two weeks later, the crop can be sprayed with Fish/Seaweed Concentrate.

One week before harvest, spray the crop with Horn Silica (some people spray this on root crops that are ready for harvest in the afternoon). This will finish off the crop, maximising flavour and shelf life. It will also strengthen the outer skin and prevent fungal attack in storage.

To find out more visit the Biodynamic Agriculture Australia's web site

Christmas Greetings

Sending our best wishes this holiday season.  Here's to giving and sharing the bounty of this beautiful land.

Barrington River Organic Farm

NEW GARLIC CROP - NOVEMBER 2013

BROF Garlic Drying November 2013 

Due to the weather this October we have already harvested some of this year's garlic crop which is air drying in our farm sheds ready for sale in a couple of weeks.  Contact us at mail@barringtonriverorganicfarm.com.au for more information and this year's  pricing

OUR BEAUTIFUL CERTIFIED ORGANIC GARLIC

BROF Garlic December 2012

Some of our staff have been sitting in the heat, preparing our new crop of garlic for sale. The smell is actually quite wonderful and we are all thinking about dinner tonight. Kathy just came in with this specimen, declaring it the "most beautiful bulb of garlic ever grown!" We certainly agree - do you?  If you would like to order please visit our online store http://ntphealthproducts.com.au/cart/What-s-New/ or phone us on 02 4997 2530

NEW SEASON GARLIC NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

Now it's easier than ever to buy our Certified Organic garlic.  If you are tired of the white, bleached, dry, imported garlic found in Australian supermarkets you can now purchase our beautiful, sweet, lovely-smelling, and intensely flavoured garlic. You'll taste the difference - ours is home-grown, dense and fresh.

As garlic is naturally a slow growing annual crop, it is only genuinely fresh once a year. The cloves are planted out in Autumn - they finally multiply to a new bulb for harvest in November. The garlic is then dried in the air to remove excess moisture and form its dry outer protective skin.

If the garlic is kept dry and reasonably well ventilated, this once a year crop will keep for many months.
Available in 1kg, 500 gm, 250 gm and 500 gm plaits.  Whilst stocks last.
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The 2012 BROF Garlic Crop

Garlic crop September 2012 - ready for harvest in November

 

THIS YEAR'S GARLIC CROP GROWING BEAUTIFULLY









This year's biodynamic garlic crop is growing beautifully.  It should be ready for harvest around November 2012.