In a market saturated by cheap, inconsistently grown, and often poor quality produce, consumers are more than ever watching their food with a keen eye. Supermarkets, grocers, and restaurants are often supplied by farms and factories with no real standard for quality. This often means that fruit, vegetables, and other fresh foods are shipped around the world, frozen in refrigerated trailers and sea containers, and sourced with unverifiable and often questionable ethics.
Due to this glaring disconnect in farm to table practices, many conscious minded customers are turning to established and transparent farms and producers with a history of enthusiastic local presence, and spirit for quality in their goods. The Garlic Company is a celebrated grower of premium garlic with a growing presence in harvesting jalapenos and other fresh cooking staples.
What is The Garlic Company?
The Garlic Company was founded in 1980 as a packing house, supplying bulk quantities of whole bulbs to fresh food suppliers. Based in California, where about 90% of all American grown garlic is produced, this Bakersfield producer is situated in prime, fertile, and historically proven agricultural location for some of the best garlic the world has to offer.
As it has grown, and its reputation for quality developed with it, The Garlic Company has expanded to be able to provide consumers with all types of preparation of garlic. This includes minced, crushed, chopped, sliced, diced, peeled and whole bulbs and cloves, as well as all forms of brined and pureed, both fresh and frozen.
The Garlic Company provides its produce to individual customers, retailers, and industrial consumers, and thus offers its products in both smaller, convenient quantities, and bulk sizes up to pallets and drums.
Along with its traditional offerings of garlic, The Garlic Company also prides itself on its offerings of Jalapenos, available diced or as puree, in various levels of spice, as well as jars, bags, and boxes of whole and peeled shallots, pearl onions, ginger, and cipollinis.
The Garlic Company has grown to be one of the best regarded producers of garlic and other specialty products through consistent growing practices, and it reputed for its regard for its employees, something all too often overlooked.
What’s So Important About Garlic?
Garlic is a bulbous plant native to central Asia that is known to have been used and consumed by humans for at least 7,000 years. It grew in popularity as a spice and saw massive popularity in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. Garlic’s application in medicine is as storied as its culinary history, being recorded in various Greek and Roman recordings. It was known as a rural and working class cure all, and has been used as an antiseptic and antibacterial agent up to and including modern times, famously being utilized by armies during the first and second world wars in place of medications that were in short supply.
Today it is well researched as a natural alternative, and well known for its health benefits. As part of the onion family, garlic is rich in Allicin, with distinct and powerful health properties. Garlic is used to expand blood vessels through its release of hydrogen sulfide into the red blood cells, benefiting high blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart disease. Similar effects give the ingestion of garlic anti-inflammatory properties, and boosts the immune system.
Garlic has antifungal properties, making it effective for fungal infections such as athlete’s foot. A varied and well fortified diet is only benefited by the addition of garlic, as one ounce of garlic contains various concentrations of your recommended intake; 1 gram of fiber, 23% of manganese, 15% of vitamin c, 17% of vitamin b6, 6% selenium and an assorted amount of vitamin b1, iron, copper, potassium, phosphorous, calcium and a number of others.
While The Garlic Company’s main focus is on garlic, another offering is its jalapenos. Jalapeno peppers have become the center of their own ardent research and have been found to have incredibly effective benefits. It is rich in antioxidants, and has been shown to treat or help prevent arthritis, headaches, nasal congestion, ulcers, heart attacks, fluid loss, and even kill some cancer cells.
What Makes The Garlic Company Different?
Starting from the ground up gave The Garlic Company the kind of perspective that other large scale growers and suppliers may lack. Starting as a pack house, supplying large quantities of garlic, and then expanding to fit its customer base means The Garlic Company has come to know its clients and customers, and their specific and varied needs. This means that the people at The Garlic Company are well aware that their reputation demands the highest standards in growing, preparation, and storage. Its prize location in California’s San Joaquin Valley is famed for its nutrient dense soil, lending itself to a garlic that is strong and savory, rich in the distinct and highly sought after flavor that other garlic growing regions lack.
The Garlic Company maintains its own seed program, keeping an always consistent crop, never tainted by inferior quality, and keeps a tight and watchful eye over its distribution and treatment processes, allowing The Garlic Company to maintain uniformity and pride in its produce, where other competitors may source theirs from a number of other farms and carry the same banner.
The specific type of seed grown at The Garlic Company is known as California Late, a strain that the producer never varies or strays from. California Late is highly reputed, and sought out by professional and respected chefs and other manufacturers and food makers for its rich and distinctive flavors.
While The Garlic Company’s range of products has grown to include other members of the onion family, as well as jalapenos, another well researched plant for its health benefits, its commitment to consistent and uniquely flavorful garlic is unwavering.
Whether in search of high quality and consistent produce as an individual for personal culinary or medicinal needs, or as a large scale enterprise in search of large quantities and an unwillingness to compromise on superior ingredients, The Garlic Company has proven itself, and stands on its reputation as a grower of the highest caliber of produce.
