Take Back the Value Menu: a Food Club customer takes the $5 Challenge local
This following post is from a new Food Club member, who is showing that eating locally and healthily can be cost-effective and easy. She’s using the $5 Challenge by USA Slow Foods to feed her (rather...
View ArticleCommunity Project 2013
The Arkansas Local Food Network is, deep breath, happy to announce the recipient of our 2013 Community Fund Project: Feed Fayetteville! Feed Fayetteville will use our $500 grant for their CareCropping...
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Hello Community! We’ve got a new post from Vera Chenault, a new Food Club member who is using your market to take back the value meal. Check it out: I have been smitten with the lovely sweet peppers...
View ArticleCheck Out Our Local Farmers and Food Artisans: Kiva Zip Crowdsourced Loans!
Check out your local Kiva Zip borrowers below. You can lend and support these small entrepreneurs in an easy, meaningful way! Click on the images to lend now!...
View ArticleKnow Your Farmer: Part 1
Arkansas Natural Produce: Small-Scale Family Farming In the whimsical words of Jessie, our 11-year-old community partner who recently visited Arkansas Natural Produce…. At Pulaski Heights Elementary we...
View ArticleRaised Garden Bed Plans
Check out these very easy to replicate Raised Garden Beds. An effecient way to intensively grow herbs, vegetables, and flowers. Courtesy of Sarah Brown of Maison Terre!
View ArticleKnow Your Farmers: Part 2
Have you read Know Your Farmers: Part 1? Get to Know Arkansas Natural Produce! Meet Mike and Patti McSwain: The heart behind McSwain Ranch A few years ago, Mike and Patti began reading and researching...
View ArticleFeed Fayetteville works with the U of A on gleaned produce…
Quick reminder: The Arkansas Local Food Network gave Feed Fayetteville a $500 grant in 2013 for their Care Cropping program, a program that works to collect excess local produce for communities in...
View ArticleSouthern Roots: An Evening of Local Food and Farmers
Southern Roots An Evening of Local Food and Farmers On Friday, May 31st, celebrate a new growing season at the Arkansas Local Food Network’s Southern Roots: An Evening of Local Food and Farmers, hosted...
View ArticleA Guide to Little Rock’s Farmers’ Markets
Here is a guide to Little Rock’s Farmers’ Markets. You can buy local almost any day of the week! The Argenta Farmers’ Market (Certified Arkansas Farmers’ Market): @ Argenta Market, across Main St....
View ArticleKnow Your Farmers, Part III
A Cheese Fish in a Vegan Pond because Kent makes cheese, and “vegan” is the opposite of cheese, and Little Rock only has one artisan cheese maker, so he’s the only one in the pond. Get it? Kent’s...
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