Farmer Q&A: The Wootens

Q & A Conversation with Poultry Farmers O’Neil & Casey Wooten  O’Neil Wooten is a poultry farmer growing broiler chickens for Foster Farms on his Strong, Arkansas farm in Union County. O’Neil’s son Casey and daughter Wendi Laster live on the farm with their families and have their own broiler contracts with Foster Farms. Between […]

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Farmer Q&A: The Hills of Howard County

Nathan and Nicole Hill are swine, poultry and cattle farmers near the community of Newhope on the Pike and Howard County line. They’ve been married 13 years. Nathan is 35 and left a job as a high school football and baseball coach, while Nicole left a nursing career in Hooks, Texas to move back home […]

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Bacon Wrapped Chicken With Cream Cheese

by Arkansas Women Bloggers member Mary Wood of Run of the Mill Mary On our family farm growing up, one of our primary sources of farm income was growing broiler chickens. For approximately six weeks, we carefully managed every aspect of the growing environment: temperature, feed, water, light, health, etc. When the chickens were picked […]

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Mesquite Chicken Tenders with BBQ Sauce

I try not to use seasoning packets to cook with because I like mixing and matching seasonings. However, I got a packet of mesquite seasoning and made these Mesquite Chicken Tenders with BBQ Sauce.

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