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Aug 29, 2022
Soaking Rain in the Mancos Valley
We were surprised to wake up Friday morning to a gentle rain. A rain that lasted for hours and dropped a full inch of...
Aug 28, 2022
Future Garlic Field
Our Member Farms are focused on building organic matter to improve our soil health. One of the ways we achieve this i...
Aug 27, 2022
Garlic Sorting is Underway
All of our Member Farms are busy cleaning, grading and sorting their garlic lots by size this week, while also trying...
Aug 22, 2022
Culinary Garlic Coming to Local Markets!
The Grasshopper Collective is BUSY.
We just got our Culinary Softneck Garlic and Hardneck Garlic Labels in the mail t...
Aug 5, 2022
The Garlic Wall
The Garlic Wall curing in the barn at Mountain Roots Produce is filled with 15 varieties of garlic this season! We wi...
Aug 2, 2022
Banga's Garlic is HUGE this year!
Dave Banga grows some fantastic garlic. His Duganski Seed Garlic and Music Seed Garlic are HUGE this year! His organi...
Jul 31, 2022
Feels like the Pacific Southwest
It's been feeling like the Pacific Southwest (as we jokingly say) over the past few days. Rainy, cool, and overcast. ...
Jul 29, 2022
Breaking News!
We've been a little radio silent the past few weeks. As many of you know all the Farm Members at The Grasshopper Col...
Jul 8, 2022
Susanville Seed Garlic (Softneck)
The Susanville Softneck Seed Garlic is sizing up great at Sol Vista Farm! Garlic field are getting their final weedi...
Jun 30, 2022
Grasshopper Update from Banga's Farm
I feel like I'm running a grasshopper refuge down here in the all the tall grass. Nervous about most crops, but not t...
Jun 27, 2022
Down in the Garlic Forest...
The Music Seed Garlic at Banga's Farm is looking great so far, and it still has another month before harvest. Lots of...
Jun 20, 2022
When it Rains it Pours? ... and Hails.
We got hammered with rain and hail this weekend as the monsoon season picks up weeks earlier than usual. One of the r...