The goodness of garlic: Adams family of Cassville ready to harvest garlic crop

CASSVILLE — Don Adams slid open the door to a white barn that used to hold 10,000 square bales when his family’s farm served as a dairy operation. Now void of bales, soon this barn will be filled with hundreds of pounds of garlic — laid out to dry on two layers of screens that span the run of the barn. Large fans will be turned on and the smell of garlic will waft out, greeting those who cruise by Adams Garlic Farm on Highway 81 near Cassville.

Don’s brother has been badgering him to install a sign as curious passersby get a glimpse of the unique shape of the garlic’s stems and leaves protruding from the 1½-acre plot near the road. If they are unsure of the crop at first glance, the smell that follows it during harvest gives them their first clue as to what is growing there.