Decorative and functional, our beautiful, handmade Garlic Keepers are made of carefully-selected Canadian maple and black walnut with complementary rich warm hues that enhance kitchen atmospheres while providing ideal conditions to preserve those gorgeous garlic flavours and extend the shelf-life of garlic bulbs. The keepers can also be used to separately store other spices, such as ginger or turmeric (mixing of spices in a single keeper is not recommended). 
 
These are designed to offer natural dry storage conditions at room temperature while restricting light and allowing ample air circulation. Under such conditions and depending on kitchen humidity levels, whole garlic bulbs can keep for several months or more in these containers.
 
Our garlic keepers are handmade by cutting a series of maple strips called staves, which are then glued together using with waterproof, food-safe glue into a round, open form. In turn, this form is glued to a dark walnut base, after which the assembled piece is turned round on our vintage wood lathe, including finishing the hollowing of the piece to a smooth form. The black walnut lid, also tuned on our lathe, features a stylized shape of a garlic bulb as a knob. Twelve small ventilation holes are arranged in an even, zig-zag pattern on the piece. It is then finished with food-safe mineral oil.