Taking center stage in gardens and farmers markets this month are beautiful heads of cabbage. If you grow it yourself and set the young plants in February, you can taste some home-grown cabbage goodness now as cabbage is one of the first crops we harvest in the spring. Cabbage is a nutritional powerhouse, rich in […]
Spring is an active and bountiful season in Arkansas, and it’s best to get outside and enjoy as much as possible. My husband and I enjoy trout fishing on the White and Little Red rivers. I developed this recipe after a productive fishing trip using several trout smoked in our electric smoker. It’s a family […]
Do you ever get that sinking feeling when you realize that you waited too long before using up fresh vegetables? You reached in to the crisper only to pull out a dripping, semi decomposing and slightly pungent (not in a good way) bunch of greens, herbs or vegetables. I hate that moment and each time […]
by The Park Wife Gardening is a little bit addictive. Yes, it starts innocently enough. You grab that hearty little tomato plant that catches your eye with visions of salsa dancing in your head. It grows beautifully and most importantly, it’s delicious. Heady with success, your next step is usually a modest garden of several […]
Want to know a secret? I’d never had collard greens until I was well into my 20s. But that’s not the half of it. Y’all, the first time I ever had collard greens? It was when I was living in Colorado. Yes, I admit, my first introduction to this Southern staple was in what can only […]
The ASU Regional Farmers Market’s mission is to develop and operate a locally-owned and operated farmers market in Jonesboro and the surrounding area. The market was created to give the small farmer, craftsperson, and plant grower a local marketplace for their products, as well as to provide the community access to its own local growers […]
The Hillcrest Farmer’s Market is central Arkansas’ only year-round market. It is open every Saturday from 7 to noon during the spring and summer months, and from 8 to noon during the fall and winter. Located on the sidewalks surrounding the Pulaski Heights Baptist Church on Kavanaugh Boulevard in Little Rock, the market began as a way for the […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has declared Aug. 3 to 9 as the 15th annual National Farmers Market Week, celebrating the nation’s thousands of farmers markets, the farmers who make them possible, and the communities that host them. “Farmers markets play a key role in developing local and regional food systems that support family […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has declared Aug. 3 to 9 as the 15th annual National Farmers Market Week, celebrating the nation’s thousands of farmers markets, the farmers who make them possible, and the communities that host them. “Farmers markets play a key role in developing local and regional food systems that support family […]
Freshly harvested corn on the cob is a treasured rite of summer, head to the farmers market or check for Arkansas Grown corn in your local grocery because the time to enjoy it is right now. Sweet, crisp and oh so yummy, this humble vegetable is able to capture the essence of the season in […]