As usual, we'll have (literally) tons of freshly harvested, cold hardy, gourmet, organic, "naturally grown" garlic on hand, for you to buy and eat, plant, admire, or whatever. Stock up, for months
of tasty, healthy, garlic-enhanced meals.
In 2008, we have listened to those of you who commented that we ought to separate the garlic business vendors from the garlic growers. So, the west side of the garlic marketplace will be devoted to garlic business vendors, and the east side (closer to Market Street . . . see the MAP if you want a more visual idea of what we are doing) will be purely and simply garlic growers. We'll have 56 or so garlic growers on hand (with booths with identifiers G1 through G56) and we have 73 garlic business vendors (pickles, relish, fudge, dog biscuits, etc., with identifiers B1 through B73.
We hope this serves you better, as you peruse the site for the garlic that best suites your taste buds . . . and/or the perfect pickles, honey, pesto, jellies, jams, herb blends, oils,
coffees, teas, spices, dip mixes, horseradish, mustards, cheese spreads,
nuts, maple syrup, chiles, marinades, sauces, butters, sausages, smoked
meats, tarts, crackers, rubs, soup mixes and even garlic biscotti,
fudge, chocolates, toffees, and soap. And there are useful accessories
like containers, flippers, towels, cookbooks, soup mixes, peelers,
presses and keepers and on and on and on.
The garlic growers know the crowd is getting more and more savvy every year. And they've knocked themselves out, with a variety of gourmet garlic that the folks over at the Gilroy festival look at with great envy. Here's a sampling of the varieties that are available this year:
- Asian Tempest
- Bavarian
- Brown Tempest
- Bulgarian
- Calabria
- Carpathian
- Carpathian Mahogony
- Chesnok Red
- Elephant
- Elmer's Topset
- Foxy
- French
- French White
- Georgian Fire
- German Red
- German White
- HNAT
- Inchellium
- Inchellium Red
- Italian
- Italian Purple
- Italian Purple Stripe
- Italian Red
- Italian Rocambole
- Italian Softneck
- Italian White
- Jazz
- Killarney Red
- Korean
- Korean Red
- Korean Rocambole
- Kuty
- Legacy
- Marino
- Metechi
- Mohawk
- Mohawk Red
- Music
- New Yorker
- Ozark
- Persian Star
- Pitarelli
- Polish
- Polish White
- Porcelain
- Porcelain White
- Pskem
- Purple Glazer
- Red Redan
- Resig
- Rocambole
- Romanian Red
- Russian
- Russian Red
- Russian White
- Siberian
- Siberian Gold
- Siberian Red
- Spanish Roja
- "Susanville" Temptress
- Summit Shock
- Sylvania Red
- Sylvania Redeye
- Tempest
- Temptress
- Ukrainian
- Wild Buff
If you're an old pro and have attended a number of Hudson Valley
Garlic Festivals, you've probably begun to be familiar with those
names, and have a favorite or two or . . .
If you've never been to the festival, you've got to come and sample
some of the varieties of the world's tastiest and freshest garlic
grown. And you don't have to worry about your breath. The days of
the festival, you're able to sample all the garlic you want . . .
you're in the company of tens of thousands of fellow garlic lovers
and are therefore completely "breath anyonymous".
