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The coronavirus pandemic is impacting businesses that rely on direct contact with their customers, including farmers and ranchers who primarily sell their products through farmers markets and to [...]

Two Locations: Huntsville April 13, and St. Paul April 18, 2020. All landowners welcome regardless of size of property or features. Hosted by the Northwest Arkansas Land Trust  

The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act has introduced new regulations to protect public health by preventing food-safety incidents instead of reacting to them after they occur. This way, we can [...]

The NWA Land Trust hosts Green Drinks and this month it’s focused on farmland programs including our newly launched NWA Farm-link website. We’re also happy to welcome the University [...]

It’s a warm and sunny afternoon in Madison County. According to the calendar, it’s fall, but Larry Karigan-Winter, Sally and Allen Hunter and I take shelter from the heat in their mobile home. To [...]

A regional land conservation group is developing a website to help connect farm seekers with farmland owners. Fayetteville nonprofit Northwest Arkansas Land Trust (NWALT) says its NWA Farm-Link [...]

Plan now to attend the 2020 Horticulture Industries Show, January 10-11, 2020 in Owasso, OK.  The theme for the 2020 Show is “PROTECTED AG:  Adapting to Challenging  Environments.” [...]

This is our annual event, providing a forum to learn about sustainable farming techniques and marketing strategies, community food systems, and federal farm policies and programs that promote [...]

In 2015, I left my job in private practice as an attorney to get a masters of law in food and agriculture law and policy from the University of Arkansas, School of Law. A few months after making [...]

Herb Culver, owner of Gather Together Farms on the White River in Madison County, pauses for a photo with Pam Nelson, Program Coordinator at the Northwest Arkansas Land Trust (NWALT) during a [...]