Galway Garlic
about us
We’ve been growing our own food for over a decade now and we started Galway Garlic back in 2018. Originally it was a way to get our kids involved in the vegetable plot and to give them a food stall of their own in the farmers market in our local town’s annual festival. Along with our onions and granny’s homemade jam, their stall sold out quickly both years! In fact, since we added garlic to our kitchen garden, we’ve found our annual harvest of garlic quickly depleted between family and friends.
So we decided to see who else we can convince of the merits of our garlic. Put simply, we believe that organic garlic is good food. Good food is grown in gardens where you rinse the soil off before tucking in and raised on farms where animal welfare and organic farming methods are valued over mass production. Good food does not come pre-packaged in styrofoam containers, it shouldn’t have a list of impossible to pronounce ingredients and it shouldn’t travel five-thousand miles across the world to get to your plate!
WHY SHOULD YOU BUY OUR ORGANIC GARLIC?
The alternative to home-grown garlic is, obviously, shop bought. But what exactly are you buying when you pick up those three, white, perfectly formed garlic bulbs in a net in your local supermarket? Most people don’t realise they’re likely buying garlic imported from China, whose garlic exports accounts for up to 80% of garlic consumed worldwide. Yet all one has to do is a little research on Chinese garlic growing methods to read some shocking facts. Imported garlic is often bleached to achieve uniform whiteness and injected with methyl bromide. This highly toxic substance is used to ‘treat’ the garlic crop due to the raw sewage water used in the garlic production and can cause central nerve damage and respiratory damage. The reality of imported garlic makes for sobering reading indeed! That’s all before you even consider the ecological footprint of importing something that we can produce ourselves here in Ireland, and at a far superior quality.
Today more than ever, people are becoming more aware of what they consume and of the human, financial and ecological cost their choice has. Choosing to educate our children on what responsible food habits are is our responsibility as parents. Choosing the right food for your table starts with choosing local as much as possible. So we hope that you make the choice to try Galway Garlic’s produce and we hope, indeed we know, that a little net of identical, white bulbs simply won’t cut it anymore!
