Garlic for the southern region of the USA:  Choose the softneck types including Cuban Purple, Inchelium Red, Ajo Roja, Siciliano, Susanville.  Note:  if you are reading about garlic scapes on the garlic crop,  it is probably a hardneck type of garlic which do not grow as well in the south as do the softneck types. […]

Raising chicks is not especially difficult if we understand what they need and don’t need in the first few weeks.  It is rewarding and satisfying to care for creatures beyond ourselves and our pets.   For us, Barred Rock chicks were our first livestock.  We were living in a neighborhood and preparing to move to the […]