After growing up in the Azores region of Portugal, where gardens spill with fruit and veg, Dália Furtado carried her love of growing with her all the way to Canada. Even while living in the city, she found ways to stay close to the soil - filling every spare space she could with planters. But the urge for more land led her and her husband Jason Barber to Cookstown, Ontario, where they took over a small garlic farm in 2014. What started with just 300 bulbs has since flourished into a thriving farm free of synthetic pesticides, growing over 50,000 bulbs across 21 unique varieties, each hand-cracked, hand-planted, and hand-harvested with care. Their farming style is guided by green thumbs, using only clean untreated seed, worm castings for fertilizer, and consistent monitoring. Any garlic plant that doesn’t look quite right is pulled and burned in the fire pit (to avoid any chance at transplanting) so they can weed out the bad and replant only the best seed, in order to grow better with age.
We are proud to grow the food that feeds your families. Thank you for supporting this tradition.