The 2026 garlic is in! You’d think the annual excitement would wear off after all these years, but it never does. In November, when everything is turning brown, planting garlic is staking a claim on a green future. It’s hopeful, empowering, and exciting, at any age. Our first year we planted in Upper Williams, simply because it was the only field that was ready. As luck would have it, Upper Williams turned out to be one of our best fields! But garlic is a low-maintenance crop, so the following year we assigned it to Schenck, a small field on the far side of the Old Bethpage Village, where it was of sight and often out of mind. To avoid a monoculture, we planted half the field in garlic and the other half in cover crop, rotating back and forth each year. This worked well enough until 2017. Read more...