Arkansas Neighbors

The modern definition of homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency.

Some families do everything they can in order to take charge of the future and ensure that farms stay within their family.

When James Mast left Ohio for warmer weather and a smaller community at 19, he had no idea he would end up being a turkey farmer in Huntsville, Ark.

Chad Lepley wants to take his new farm in a lot of different directions.

Brian Palmer is the fifth-generation of his family on their farmstead, east of Miami, Okla.

On a Monday in early October, 40 people met at the Pauline Whitaker Center in Fayetteville, Ark., for the seventh Moms on the Farm Tour.

Northwest Arkansas is growing and becoming more metropolitan each year. Part of this phenomenon is smaller towns surrounding the Fayetteville-Springdale, Ark., area becoming more urban, rather like suburbs, unlike the completely rural towns they once were.

It took a while, but Arkansas State 4-H President Travis Clark finally found his niche – swine.

An old African proverb states, “It takes a village to raise a child.” That is even truer today when interest and knowledge are so diverse.

Kyle Kilgore is a rising star in the rodeo stock contractor world – and he’s only 17.