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More Cheese Please?
Is it time to rethink any doubts you may have about the healthfulness of eating “full fat” dairy? Maybe so, according to some recent research. A recent article by Hallie Levine for AARP on superfoods...
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Ag in the Classroom: Q&A with Gordon Eichelberger of Quitman High School
Gordon Eichelberger is an ag education teacher at Quitman High School. He’s been involved in Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Ag In The Classroom agriculture education program for several years and has...
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Going Organic: A Q&A with Shawn Peebles
Shawn Peebles is an all-organic farmer. He runs Peebles Organic out of Augusta and everything he grows on the 1,500 acres he farms follows the strict organic guidelines necessary to be certified as...
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Growing Sweet Potatoes Part 1
Shawn Peebles holding some of his sweet potato crop. Fall is officially here, but, in typical Arkansas fashion, it doesn’t quite feel like it yet. Nevertheless, Thanksgiving will be here in no time,...
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Growing Sweet Potatoes Part 2
Shawn Peebles of Woodruff is one of a select group of sweet potato growers in Arkansas and the only grower of organic sweet potato growers in the state. He and other sweet potato farmers are busy...
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Farm Family Recipe: Mamaw’s Squash Dressing
by Maddison Stewart, Arkansas Farm Bureau Every family has that one recipe. You know, the one that makes you think of your family. The one that makes you happy when you’re cooking it and then makes...
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Recipe: Chocolate Rice Pie
Rhonda Hull of Little Rock won first place in all three categories (Main Dish, Salad and Dessert) in Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Rice Cooking Competition at the 2018 Arkansas State Fair and Livestock Show....
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Last-Second Side Ideas: Bacon & Skillet-Fried Brussels Sprouts
BACON & SKILLET-FRIED BRUSSELS SPROUTS by Gregg Patterson We already know that every kid hates Brussels sprouts. I was no different. So let’s call it an acquired taste, like asparagus or better...
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Delicious Leftover Idea: Smoked Turkey Soup
SMOKED TURKEY SOUP by Gregg Patterson Thanksgiving means leftovers. And what to do with those leftovers, you ask? I like to present them in a “new” way. Here’s my latest favorite. I was never a big...
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Arkansas Crunchy Catfish
August is National Catfish Month. U.S. catfish farmers took it on the chin about 10 years ago when cheap, low-quality, Asian “catfish” flooded the U.S. market. That’s changed for the better as...
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