Note: This is a preorder. Garlic will ship between Sept 16 and Oct 4.

This is a special garlic with a special story. We're are selling this is as a fundraiser for SUSU Community Farm's Give Black fundraiser. See more info about both below! Because this is for a fundraiser, we're offering this at a sliding scale. If you can pay a little more to support free CSA shares for BIPOC folks in Vermont please do! All proceeds (minus shipping) go directly to SUSU.

This is a hearty, cold-hardy, spicy, hardneck garlic. High yields and beautiful big identical cloves, 6-8 cloves per head. One half pound is 3-4 medium to large heads and an average of ~20 cloves. That would plant out about 10 row feet.

The Story of Jaunita Garlic

This garlic was tended for decades by Jaunita Nelson, a Black peace activist who was a local leader in the back to the land and local foods movements in the 1970s. Jaunita and her husband Wally even helped to found the Greenfield, MA farmers market! You can learn more about their work, lives, and legacy here https://www.nelsonhomestead.org/.

After the Nelson's passing, this garlic went wild in the fields of Woolman Hill (where they lived) until it was rediscovered in 2018. Friend of the farm, Mary Link, invited us to gather some, and we harvested it as single-clove tiny field garlics in 2020 and have been slowly growing it out with love for the last three seasons. We're delighted to offer this heirloom legacy garlic to support our friends at SUSU, who are continuing the tradition of growing food for liberation. We can't think of a better way to honor Jaunita and Wally's legacy.

More about the SUSU Give Black campaign:

"These funds will nurture our vision of a healthy, thriving, and resilient space for people of the global majority, children, and our vermont commUNITY. here, we will continue to build our long-term capacity to grow and distribute culturally relevant food, hold sacred gathering spaces for rest, ceremony and community-building, and maintain a protected haven for healing and reconnecting with our ancestral ways. we all have a role in establishing SUSU CommUNITY Farm as a thriving space of generative change."