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Garlic shortage hits, a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic
- nkurz 6y agoMakes me feel good that we planted our garlic last fall. We ate the first sample today for lunch: pulled them green, chopped up, sauteed in olive oil, then mixed in a cheese omelette. Tasty, and the first thing we've eaten from our garden this year in Vermont. @jelliclesfarm: You post a lot of California farming related articles, and have a name that includes 'farm'. Do you have farm? What do you grow?
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoYes. I have a small acreage farm and orchard. Lavender for essential oil and medicinal herbs. I used to grow produce but no margins as labour takes up everything. I came here to apply for YC, didn’t get through but stayed..for small acreage farm automation. + Netflix series Rotten. Episode: Garlic. Garlic comes from China and peeled by Chinese prison labour according to the documentary. Gilroy Christopher Ranch disagrees. I wonder why we are having a shortage of garlic in our tiny country population of about 350 million then ..
- jelliclesfarm 6y ago[..]People largely confined to their homes have been cooking more and buying more garlic to cook with, Christopher said. His company, which typically sells 500,000 pounds of garlic per week to grocers, restaurants and industrial buyers, watched demand skyrocket after the stay-home orders were imposed — first to 600,000 pounds per week, then to 700,000, then to 800,000, he said. Demand from restaurants has plummeted, but demand from grocers has exploded, he said.[..] Is it just me or is this math dodgy? That’s 300k pounds of garlic per week while restaurants are not buying but people at home are buying? So 350 million people consuming 800k lbs of garlic perfection week? How many lbs of garlic per day per person? Math. Do the math?