Stories

The Division of Agriculture’s Center for Arkansas Farms and Food (CAFF) offers two programs to prepare new and aspiring farmers for success in local food systems. The first Farm School begins in [...]

Farmland owners in Northwest Arkansas looking to lease or sell have a new resource to consider.  NWA Farm-Link helps connect and match farm seekers with farmland owners in addition to providing [...]

It is with pride and gratitude we share this story about NWA Farm-Link seeker Cody Murphree. He was one of the first seekers to contact us about the program, and to sign up. Learn more about [...]

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 [...]