Great Garlic

If you don't love garlic, we're guessing you haven't had great garlic. 

We'll tell you more about it below, but first: 

To order great garlic (including to learn about each of the varieties we're offering), pop on over to our order page  

or reach out to us at: hithere@secondlawfarm.com.  

Great garlic isn't one thing. Some types are juicy and almost sweet; some are drier. Some caramelize faster than others; some peel more easily than others.  

We grow hardneck and softneck garlic, although in 2024 we'll have mostly hardneck varieties. And if this hardneck / softneck thing sounds like something for a chiropractor not a farm, no worries. 

Basically, softneck is what you usually get in a grocery store (although not the same lovely kinds we offer). They keep longer, but don't have the range of flavor profiles as hardneck garlic does. If you like to braid garlic, or admire braided garlic, softneck's your jam. 

Hardneck is called hardneck because when you get it, it will have a hard core (like a stem cut off) that is, well, like a neck. All the cloves are in one row around it. That hard stem-like thing was a scape-- a cool hail Mary type thing hardnecks send up in the spring that you (or we) cut off to (a) eat and (b) prevent the garlic from investing a lot of energy in a fancy thing that's not useful. This is important because we want all the energy going into the bulb. Softnecks gave up the ghost on fancy above ground things eons ago, so they have no neck to be cut. Hardnecks are the real deal, if we do say so ourselves. 

Everything at SLF, including our garlic, is grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.  We are all solar powered and of course our great compost and soil amendments are generated mere yards from our garlic beds! We're working to make our carbon footprint as tiny as our farm. 

We're posting about the chaos at the farm and some amazing garlic recipes.