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Eastern Garlic Producers Small garlic farm in South Lancaster, Ontario, dedicated to growing the best hardneck garlic.

We grow it with love, harvest it at its peak and send it out into the world exactly the way we’d want to bring it home ourselves 🧄

IT’S PLANTING SEASON. LET’S GIVE SOME GARLIC AWAY 🧄🧄🧄How many cloves are in that milkcrate?We asked the little boss to v...
10/17/2026

IT’S PLANTING SEASON. LET’S GIVE SOME GARLIC AWAY 🧄🧄🧄

How many cloves are in that milkcrate?

We asked the little boss to verify the count. She counted a handful, pocketed a nice looking one and went on with her afternoon.

That’s the kind of confidence you can’t buy.

Let’s see how you do!

Up for grabs: a FREE DOZEN of our garlic.

To get in on it:

• FOLLOW our page
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• TAG A FRIEND & DROP YOUR GUESS in the comments

🏆 Exact guess or closest to it.. Wins!

📅 Winner announced next Saturday, October 24.

Have a look. Let the math start math’n. Throw a number out there. You never know, a dozen bulbs could be all yours.

Finally, something useful to bring home after an hour on Facebook. Good luck 🤙

To quote one of the greatest literary minds of our time, Nelly… IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE 🔥The first sample batch of hot ...
10/01/2026

To quote one of the greatest literary minds of our time, Nelly… IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE 🔥

The first sample batch of hot garlic-infused honey is done and we’re already finding excuses to put it on things.

Ontario garlic. Ontario honey. Ontario um.. Thai peppers. Best of all worlds. A deadly duo just became killer trio.

Sweet up front, heat creeping in and enough garlic to remind you whose page you’re on.

And once we get the garlic planted in a couple of weeks, we’ll have some for sale. You know, priorities.

So consider this your heads up. It’s coming. 🧄🌶️🍯

THE BIG QUESTION: WHEN SHOULD YOU PLANT GARLIC IN ONTARIO? 🧄There’s always a guy who says “My grandfather planted way la...
09/28/2026

THE BIG QUESTION: WHEN SHOULD YOU PLANT GARLIC IN ONTARIO? 🧄

There’s always a guy who says “My grandfather planted way later than that.”

Your grandfather also had six kids and one bathroom. The man was comfortable with risk.

But for much of Ontario, October is a good starting point. Farther north, you may be looking at September. In warmer southern areas, that window can stretch into November.

Ontario’s a big place. We can’t all follow the same calendar when one guy’s still mowing his lawn and another guy just hit a patch of ice and went down his front steps without using a single one.

Aim to plant about 4-6 weeks before the ground freezes solid. You’re giving those cloves time to put down roots before winter moves in and makes itself everybody’s problem.

And we mean frozen ground. Not the first frost on your windshield. Finish your coffee. Put some pants on. Nobody needs to see you sprinting across the yard holding a shovel like you’ve got body to dispose of.

Around here, mid-October is a sensible target. Keep an eye on the conditions, though. Ontario weather can be a lil bi-polar.

So get your bed ready, crack your bulbs, sort your seed and give yourself a little breathing room.

Next summer you could be walking into the kitchen with garlic you grew yourself. Casually setting it on the counter. Making sure everybody saw.

You’ll say “it’s just a little something from the garden” like you haven’t been waiting nine months to say that.

Get it in the ground. Earn your moment. 🤙

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For those looking for seed / bulk:

We have large/jumbo seed/garlic still available at $12/lb while quantities last.

DM us now to reserve yours 📨

The roadside garlic stand has picked up a couple new roommates: Thai chili peppers and Roma tomatoes.Fresh from the gard...
09/24/2026

The roadside garlic stand has picked up a couple new roommates: Thai chili peppers and Roma tomatoes.

Fresh from the garden, limited quantities and in the case of the Thai chilies, carrying a completely unreasonable amount of violence for something that small.

🧄 Garlic.
🍅 Tomatoes.
🌶️ Hot peppers.

Basically, dinner is sitting on the side of County Road 2 waiting for you. We’ve done most of the work here.

📍 20139 County Rd. 2, Summerstown, Ontario

Quantities are limited. Come get ’em before somebody else does. 🤙

Sure it would have been easier to get AI to whip something up instead of having to drag a couple hundred pounds of garli...
09/24/2026

Sure it would have been easier to get AI to whip something up instead of having to drag a couple hundred pounds of garlic out to the middle of the field and wait for that 30 second window at the end of the day for, well.. THIS 👀

Sometimes you gotta do things the hard way just because the hard way looks better.

So while I haul all this garlic back to the barn, you just sit there and enjoy the sunset.

This one’s on us. 🤙🧄



🚗 Visit our self-serve stand. Restocked daily.
📍20319 County Rd. 2, Summerstown, ON
🗺️ https://share.google/DF8kH9n5ddG7sBzMR

Been quiet on here lately. The garlic, unfortunately, has not.Turns out when you’re a one man show who grows a few thous...
09/22/2026

Been quiet on here lately. The garlic, unfortunately, has not.

Turns out when you’re a one man show who grows a few thousand pounds of the stuff, September isn’t exactly a month for putting your feet up and admiring your work.

It’s been GO GO GO.

Cleaning. Sorting. Grading cured garlic. Setting aside seed. Filling orders. Getting equipment ready.

Basically touching every bulb we grew at least seventeen more times before deciding where the hell it’s going.

We dropped off a load at Henderson’s Grocery in Lancaster, so if you’re looking for singles, you can grab them there.

The roadside stand is still being restocked and you guys are still doing a respectable job of making sure we have something to restock.

Then came our yearly trip to Wakefield, QC.

Loaded the trunk with garlic.

Brought extra.

Sold out anyway.

Now we’re back home and heading straight into the big one.

PLANTING.

Seed is being sorted. Fields are getting ready. Plans are made. Equipment is coming out.

And for anyone looking to get stocked up before we disappear into the fields:

🌱 SEED GARLIC
🧄 BULK GARLIC FOR THE PANTRY

Large bulbs - $12/lb (10lb minimum)

We’re taking orders now. Shoot us a DM.

Whether you’re putting it in the ground or putting enough in the pantry to make Costco look underprepared, send us a message.

Because you can feel it now.

Cooler mornings. Shorter days. Boxes of seed piling up.

That little window between “Thank God harvest is over” and “alright, put it all back in the ground.”

At this point, we’re not chasing a quiet life.

We’re building something that keeps growing.

And yes, we’re fully aware of what we’ve signed ourselves up for.

We’re just not planning to slow down. 🧄

08/24/2026

Somewhere in the last decade, life took a hard left, dropped me off in an garlic field and said, “Alright bud, figure it out.”

So I kinda did.

Not particularly gracefully. There were mistakes. There were more mistakes. More mistakes. And a whole cow thing that I don’t feel like talking about again. But the funny part is I thought getting here was the plan.

Apparently it was just the warm-up.

Planting season is creeping up and what comes next is going to look a little different around here.

Bigger operation. Bigger fields. Probably bigger problems. I mean, that seems to be how this works.

But we’ll get to that.

For now, it’s nice to take a look back at the season that somehow convinced me it was a good idea to keep this thing going 🤙

Back to the scene of the crime. This time I brought backup.You already know what happened.The cows, the garlic, the barn...
08/18/2026

Back to the scene of the crime. This time I brought backup.

You already know what happened.

The cows, the garlic, the barn. One of those messes that feels a whole lot heavier when you know exactly what went into it.

After being depressed about it for a few days, I finally picked up a rake. Then my daughter picked up a rake. I figured she’d last a few minutes.

Well, she stayed start to finish.

Rake in her hands, following me around, making piles, messing up some of my piles and making the whole thing take longer than it probably should have.

And I loved every second of it.

Because somewhere between the first pile and the last, the whole reason we were there started to matter a little less.

The damage was still damage.

But I wasn’t thinking about it anymore.

I was watching my daughter work beside me.

Watching her make a game out of a mess that had damn near broken my heart a few days earlier.

The best part, as soon as we were done, this little traitor walked directly over to the cows and started petting them.

Apparently she found them innocent on all charges. I disagree with the verdict.

But watching her standing there with them, I couldn’t help but laugh.

I walked into that barn thinking about everything those cows had cost me.

I walked out thinking about what that mess had accidentally given me.

A whole day with my little girl that I’ll remember long after I’ve forgotten what those bulbs were worth.

Funny accounting, life.

Lost a few thousand dollars but somehow left richer.

I guess we’ll be okay after all 🤙



🚗 Visit our self-serve stand. Restocked daily.
📍20319 County Rd. 2, Summerstown, ON
🗺️ https://share.google/DF8kH9n5ddG7sBzMR

Because sometimes life doesn’t hand you lemons.Sometimes it sends 12,000 pounds of beef through the barn door and lets y...
08/13/2026

Because sometimes life doesn’t hand you lemons.

Sometimes it sends 12,000 pounds of beef through the barn door and lets you figure out the metaphor yourself.

Ugh.

So a few days ago I got a text saying the cows had gotten into the garlic barn.

I was in the middle of one of those mornings where everything is happening at once, so I laughed it off. Figured they wandered in, knocked a few things over and carried on with their little cow lives.

Then I finally got a second to go look.

Yeah.

Excuse my language, they threw a f*cking house party.

Garlic knocked over. Garlic crushed. Garlic stepped on. Months of work suddenly sitting on the barn floor looking like the cows had developed a personal beef with me.

And now that I’ve actually gone through everything and assessed the damage, we’re talking thousands of dollars in losses.

And because we pride ourselves on the quality of what we sell, anything that hit the ground, got stepped on, crushed or damaged isn’t getting passed along to customers or used.

That’s not how we do things.

I’ll admit, standing there looking at it all, I came pretty damn close to saying screw it and pulling the plug on the whole thing.

You spend months growing it. Weeks harvesting it. You finally get everything tucked away in the barn and think maybe, just maybe, you can exhale for five minutes.

Apparently the cows heard about the five minutes.

But you know what? Life happens. Sh*t happens.

And if there’s one thing I’ve always been pretty good at, it’s taking a sh*tty situation, swearing at it for an appropriate amount of time and then figuring out what the hell I’m doing next.

So that’s where we’re at.

Reset. Regroup. Keep moving.

So for this season I will continue to stock the roadside stand but larger / wholesale orders will be limited.

I took a hit.

A pretty damn good one.

But I’m not done.

Besides, quitting because I got outsmarted by a bunch of cows would be a pretty embarrassing way to end it all 🤙



🚗 Visit our self-serve stand. Restocked daily.
📍20319 County Rd. 2, Summerstown, ON
🗺️ https://share.google/DF8kH9n5ddG7sBzMR

Dear person (or people) stealing garlic,I’ve been trying to figure you out.If you’re hungry, garlic is a terrible choice...
07/31/2026

Dear person (or people) stealing garlic,

I’ve been trying to figure you out.

If you’re hungry, garlic is a terrible choice. You can’t bite into it like an apple and call it dinner.

If that’s really the problem, come find me.

I’ll buy you a meal. I’m not joking.

If you just wanted garlic, you could’ve asked. Everyone around here tells me I already give away more than I should. They’re probably right. I bring some to the Lancaster Food Pantry whenever I can because that’s what good neighbours are supposed to do. I literally gave a man some garlic at the gas station this morning just because. I’d much rather hand you a bundle than wonder why another one disappeared overnight.

The funny part is you probably think you’re stealing garlic.

You’re not.

You’re stealing trust.

This little stand only works because hundreds of strangers decide to be decent people when nobody’s watching. Every time you take something without paying, you’re betting that eventually we’ll stop believing in everyone else too.

I’d really rather lose that bet.

We’re putting up more cameras because apparently that’s the world we live in now.

Although I’m still considering the cheaper option. A lawn chair. A b**r. A bush. And a buddy the size of a refrigerator.

Anyways, if you need help, ask. If you need garlic, ask.

If you just enjoy stealing from my family, I hope every recipe you make for the rest of your life calls for exactly one clove more than you have.

Love always,
Johnny the garlic guy

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