Save the date for Ark Country Store's Chick & Wild bird Workshop on Wednesday, February 26th at 6:30 p.m. Come hear from Bob Wucher with Purina on the important essentials to raising healthy chicks AND wild bird health and nutrition. Keep an eye on our website and Facebook for more information on this upcoming workshop! 

Are you ready for some gardening? Our onion sets, seed potatoes and cole crops have arrived! Choose from Yukon Golds or Kennebec Whites. Our cole crops include broccoli, Brussel sprouts, Chinese cabbage, Georgia collars and more! Quick Tip: Are you new to planting potatoes? Sow cool-season vegetable seeds directly into well prepared garden rows. ...

Don't wait for the groundhog to tell you spring is on the way, it's time to get out into the garden! Many of the tasks this month will give you a running start when temperatures warm and the plants begin to emerge. If you love blueberry muffins, plant blueberry bushes now. Keep those Valentine cut flower arrangements fresh ...

Never cap your crape myrtle trees as shown in the top photo. Leave them as trees. A touchy topic is pruning crape myrtle trees. Do you prune them? When and how much? The best time to prune is late winter, February - March. The goal is to enhance the trees natural form, don't force it to grow in a small space ...

So much of what we do in the care and feeding of deer passes relatively unnoticed in the short term. But antler growth season is when "instant gratification" seekers can practically see results occur right before their eyes. Growing at a rate of half an inch per day, antlers are some of the fastest growing tissues in the animal kingdom. ...