The Center for Arkansas Farms and Foods will hold a fundraising event 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, to support the Farmers for Tomorrow fund, a program to help aspiring farmers start their small farm businesses. The event will be at the Milo J. Shult Agricultural Research and Extension Center, at 1005 W. Meade St., in Fayetteville. CAFF is a part of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research branch of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. Pete speaks with Heather Friedrich.
A coalition of grassroots groups is racing to collect nearly 91,000 signatures by July 3 for two Arkansas ballot measures — one protecting direct democracy rights, one focused on public education.
The Arkansas Folklife Festival — a free, three-day celebration of the state's six cultural regions — comes to Riverfront Park in North Little Rock June 26-28, headlined by Bobby Rush and Lucinda Williams.
Padma Viswanathan, who teaches in the UofA MFA in Creative Writing and Translation, discusses her shortlisted translation of Ana Paula Maia's Brazilian novella "On Earth As It Is Beneath."