Producer Safety Growing Training
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 [...]
Green Drinks January 29, 2020
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 [...]
KW Heritage Farm Grows Faith
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 [...]
NWA Land Trust Developing Farm-Link Program
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 [...]
AR-OK Horticulture Industries Show January 10-11, 2020
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.” [...]
Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Conference January 22-25, 2020
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 [...]
Are you truly ready to buy a farm?
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 [...]
Gather Together Farms
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 [...]
