Our Story

At Shaggy Bark Farm we pride ourselves with hard work and doing everything by hand! We wanted to work our land and find a way to use our homestead to offer a healthy product to our community, church family, neighbors, co-workers and friends.

The land was bought in 2017 with A LOT of clean up to tackle and the soil was depleted of all nutrition. As we walked the property we noticed many of the trees had a “shag bark” appearance to them. The tall White Oaks were abundant and stretched high to the sky to create a canopy over most of our property. The name Shaggy Bark stuck and it’s known to many now! We started with a basic garden first, making homemade soups, salsa, spaghetti sauces and more! Then we started thinking about retirement and what to do with our little piece of country heaven….so…after much research and thought, garlic was our choice!

We started in 2018 with several types of seed, we had to determine what would be best for our growing area and acclimate seed to our climate and soil. After soil tests, adding in rich organic fertilizer from our neighbor, trial and error of planting times; we finally found our seed type! Rocamble, hardneck garlic. We named it Southern Shag Rocamble and have been working on accumulating inventory year after year. We made drying racks, got our hands very dirty, broke our backs and watched our little garlics bloom year after year. Drying thousands of seed to replant each season!

One very strange fact about our growers, which is my husband and myself; I am SEVERELY allergic to ingesting garlic. I can plant it, clean it, store it, chop it and cook with it, but I had better not EAT it! It’s so frustrating as I love the taste and smell and the health benefits are truly amazing! So please eat some garlic for me! We package our garlic in 1/4 pound bags. This way you can store or use the amount you wish. It’s a great gift for others too. My husband is an army veteran and this is a hobby farm for him and he puts a lot of long hours into making sure our field is ready and keeping up with the very basic equipment we use to get the planting area ready.

We hope you find our garlic tasty and smooth. Thank you for supporting a small veteran business.

Happy Cooking!

Jessica