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The Equinox Garlic Dance

September 24, 2017 Stephen Barstow 1 Comment

….is an annual celebration of garlic, king of the tasty Alliums!
First, some pictures from the 2012 event:

The 2012 garlic harvest! …and the winner is Estonian Red

Is this cruel, hanging them upside down like this still alive?

…and a few pictures from today’s (2017) event:

Worn out after this year’s equinox garlic dance

Inspired by Søren Holt, testing out the Alliophone…

This year’s Estonian Red (Estisk Rød) garlic were a very good size, but size isn’t everything…

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Anders Nordrum says:

September 25, 2017 at 10:58

Takk for denne muligheten.

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