Stories

Maebrie Cruce is a recent University of Arkansas graduate. During her last semester, she was an intern at the Northwest Arkansas Land Trust and she attended one of the NWA Farmlink networking [...]

The Northwest Arkansas Land Trust and NWA Farmlink are proud to be supporting this Walton Family Foundation initiative to build a food system in Northwest Arkansas that can serve as a national [...]

“If we are to have any real hope of maintaining the quality of life that so many of us associate with the small towns and rural communities of Arkansas, we should be committed to fostering [...]

Preserved Riverbend Farm owned and operated by Janet Bachmann and Jim Lukens is well known for growing organic fruits and vegetables supplying local food, as well as flowers, sold at area [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]