The Garlic People

11/12/2024

Join us in Trinidad along with 20 other makers this Sunday 10:00-4:30. A benefit for the Trinidad Library. Across the street, the school will be having its holiday show so the beautiful little town of Trinidad will be hopping.
Come get your garlic braids while supplies last! We’ll have wreaths, chili strings and other garlic-chili art too. This is our last show of the season.
Did you know there is a lighted boat parade in Trinidad Sunday night at 6? I didn’t and I am looking forward to it!

08/12/2024

Day 3 of the Humarts fair is tomorrow at Redwood Acres, Eureka 10-5.
Come check us out, get your garlic and shop all three buildings.
See ya!

01/12/2024

Love this place!
Happy and blessed to call it home.
Feeling grateful. ❤️

26/11/2024

21/11/2024

Enjoying the warmth of the wood stove and chilies on this rainy day.
I am making lots of products for the upcoming Humarts show at Redwood Acres the first weekend of December.
Many of them will be available in our shop including this culinary wreath. Check them out.
The vibrancy is uplifting and those warm summer days are palpable.
Link to this one:

https://thegarlicpeopleshop.etsy.com/listing/1829662311

18/11/2024

Feeling a harvest vibe. Counting the days until our eldest is home for Thanksgiving.
Made a pumpkin pie last night as a warm up!

This wreath is simple and full. It’ll last years if kept out of the weather.

Black wheat, apricot strawflowers and orange safflowers. All organic and grown by us.

Here’s a link to this listing in our shop:

https://thegarlicpeopleshop.etsy.com/listing/1823928467

15/11/2024

Fall beauties

12/11/2024

11/11/2024

So excited to work with all the dried flowers, herbs and chilies this holiday season.
It’s my idea of a good time!
Link in bio to our shop to check out what I’ve made and listed or message me for a custom creation.

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20/10/2024

Fig Twig is coming soon to Redwood Acres. Hope to see you locals there!

16/10/2024

The apricot strawflowers are coming on strong and beautiful in these mild October days.

14/10/2024

This is it. Last pick of many flowers before the first frost. Sorry it is over but at least I have all year to play with all the garlic, flowers and herbs we have harvested. 💐🧄🌶️

12/10/2024

A sweet review from a customer today who asked me to make a custom wreath for her husband’s memorial.
Like it and want one for yourself or someone else? Follow this link:
https://thegarlicpeopleshop.etsy.com/listing/1805352757

21/09/2024

North Country Fair late night prep for The Garlic People over here tonight. The fair is at the Arcata Plaza Saturday and Sunday.
We will have our 2024 garlic braids, wreaths, corn garlands, garlic for eating and planting, chili strings and a lot more of our beautiful color from the garden.
Come see us (G Street, grass side) and so many other artists plus food and entertainment.
My first NCF was in 1987. That was awhile ago. I am kinda too exhausted to do the math.
Hope to see some of you there!

# garlic braids affair

19/09/2024

“Up close and personal” deer out our bedroom window

I woke up to the sound of a buck repeatedly charging a forsythia bush. Realized he was scratching the velvet off his antlers. It didn’t take long. He went from soft, rounded stubs to hard, pointed weapons. He finished by rubbing the final hanging strands of velvet off in the thick grass.

They are getting ready for rutting. The young ones practice together. The older ones are more serious about it.

As much I love these glimpses into the everyday life of deer, we work hard to keep them out of the garden. At this point, our 6’ hog wire fence has been completely destroyed by bear and would be if we dared waste the time (again) to fix it. We are using 8 foot deer fence just around the perimeter of the annual garden (hence the deer now right at the house—it is saving me time not moving grounder apples to the garden to be tilled in as now the deer eat all the grounders and if we only ate the deer it’d be a great system) with electric fence on the outside of it. It’s working. Both the bear and the deer have left the green oasis of the garden alone—for the most part.

That’s what is on my mind if you take the time to peer inside my window.

09/08/2024

Another load in the parade of flowers from the garden to the drying shed.
I love this time of year—all the colors from the garden and the swims in the river.

06/08/2024

Harvesting millet in the heat today.
Happy to have my harvesting buddy!

02/08/2024

Safflower time!
So bright and exuberant and pokey!
Look for them in upcoming floral designs in my shop.
Link in bio