Monthly Archives: September 2021

Make Your Own Garlic Powder

Originally posted on two branches homestead:
Years ago we were gifted several heads of delicious garlic by our dear friend.  She was even kind enough to give us lots of tips on growing it. Those few heads have now become over 100 heads per year.  Besides selling garlic we were looking for a use for all of our extra heads. …

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Harvest Season, “it’s not what you have to do, it’s what you get to do”

Originally posted on two branches homestead:
? This blog has been a long time coming. I have been wanting to get a new blog out for our loyal, as well as new, followers, but our fellow homesteaders will agree that finding the time between August and October is nearly impossible because……It’s Harvest Season! My husband recently shared a post with…

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Harvesting and Curing Garlic

Years ago we were gifted some beautiful heads of hard neck garlic by one of our closest friends with verbal planting instructions. We picked a nice spot in the garden and on Columbus Day, we planted. The next summer we were blessed with 50 heads of garlic. We didn’t know exactly what to do with it. It seemed logical to

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