06/13/2026
🌱 GARLIC SCAPES ARE HERE! 🌱
If you've never tried garlic scapes before, you're missing one of the best-kept secrets of early summer.
Garlic scapes are the curly green flower stalks that grow from hardneck garlic plants. We remove them so the garlic plant puts its energy into growing larger bulbs underground—but that means we get this delicious bonus crop weeks before the garlic is ready.
What do they taste like?
Think of a cross between garlic, green onions, chives, and asparagus. They have a fresh, mild garlic flavor that's much gentler than a garlic clove and can be eaten raw or cooked.
Some of our favorite ways to use them:
🧄 Chop into scrambled eggs or omelets
🧄 Slice into stir-fries
🧄 Toss on the grill with olive oil, salt, and pepper
🧄 Add to soups, pasta dishes, and fried rice
🧄 Make garlic scape butter for steaks and vegetables
🧄 Blend into pesto (the most popular use!)
They also freeze beautifully. Many gardeners make batches of pesto and freeze it in ice cube trays for easy use all year long.
⭐ EASY GARLIC SCAPE PESTO ⭐
1 cup chopped garlic scapes
½ cup nuts (pine nuts, almonds, walnuts, or cashews)
½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
½ cup olive oil
Juice of ½ lemon
Salt to taste
Blend until smooth. Toss with pasta, spread on sandwiches, spoon onto grilled chicken or fish, or freeze for later.
We'll have freshly harvested garlic scapes available at the farm stand tomorrow while supplies last. Their season only lasts a couple of weeks, so this is one of those special "blink and you'll miss it" farm treats.
Open Sunday 10am–3pm at The Edge of Liberty.
Who's already a garlic scape fan? Share your favorite way to use them in the comments! 🌱🧄🌱
