Community Calendar

Indulge your sweet tooth at the annual Friends of the Library Chocolate Buffet fundraiser! Treat yourself or surprise your mom, sister, or aunt with a box of irresistible HOMEMADE chocolate goodies. Fill a 7" x 5.5" x 2.5" box for only $15. We open from 10:00am until noon or while supplies last. Our nonprofit organization provides fundraisers to support the West Fork Library.

Take a trip back in time with Nena from Homegrown Native Foods to learn about the many uses of their sourdough starter that dates from 1908. In this hands-on class participants will learn how starter can be used to make bread, biscuits, crackers, crumpets, and chocolate cake. You'll leave with your own starter, a slice of bread, a biscuit, and the knowledge to make bread - not just bring it home. "Come get a taste of 1908."

Participants will learn about the many uses of sour dough starters that date to 1908, including bread, biscuits, crackers, crumpets, and chocolate cake. Students will leave with their own starter, a slice of bread, a biscuit, and the knowledge to make bread not just bring it home.

SPOIL MOM THIS YEAR WITH A TABLESIDE “MOM”OSA EXPERIENCE 🍾✨
Thanks to the generosity of a wonderful Mount Sequoyah patron, the bubbly is on the house — and it’s all for a good cause!

🛎️ Raise a glass for a cause this Mother’s Day. Join us at Mount Sequoyah for our 2nd annual Mother's Day Brunch.

The Ozark Center for Lifestyle Medicine hosts a whole food plant-based (WFPB) potluck meal on the second Monday of every month, and we’d love to have you join us!

This community event is a wonderful opportunity to savor beautiful, delicious, healthy food, learn more about the benefits of plant-based eating, and meet folks who are wanting to take a proactive role in restoring their bodies to optimal health and vitality!

We will hear the stories of some who have experienced the power of a plant-based diet to heal, and you’ll have an opportunity to “ask the doc” of Dr. Morgan, a Lifestyle Medicine physician, regarding any questions you may have about plant-based eating, and lifestyle medicine in general. Dr. Morgan will also give a short presentation on how Lifestyle Medicine can help treat, prevent, and reverse disease.

For first time participants, we want you to be our guest! Don’t bring anything! Just come and see what it’s all about. After that, you can join in by bringing a dish that is based on whole plants (with minimal to no oil and salt, and no animal products) to share. If you’re not the cooking type, feel free to bring some cut up fruit or raw veggies. Anything real and minimally processed is welcome! We just want you to come see why more and more people are choosing to eat in a plant-forward way!

Please feel free to invite anyone who may be interested in coming with you! (Your dish will cover for them as well). Also, if you have children, say 9 and up, who are interested in healthy living, feel free to bring them along as well!

If you plan to come, please call (870) 505-4619 or email admin@ozarkclm.org to confirm it’s a go (weather, etc. could cause changes). It will also help us to know how many people to prepare for.

We very much look forward to seeing you there!

The Ozark Center for Lifestyle Medicine is hosting its monthly whole food plant-based (WFPB) potluck meal on the second Monday of each month, and we’d love to have you join us tonight!

This community event is a wonderful opportunity to savor beautiful, delicious, healthy food, learn more about plant-based eating, and meet folks who are wanting to take a proactive role in restoring their bodies to optimal health and vitality!

We will hear the stories of some who have experienced the power of a plant-based diet to heal, and you’ll have an opportunity to “ask the doc” of Dr. Morgan, a Lifestyle Medicine physician, any questions you may have about plant-based eating, and lifestyle medicine in general. Dr. Morgan will also give a short presentation on how Lifestyle Medicine can help treat, prevent, and reverse disease.

If you can make it, just bring a dish that is based on whole plants (with minimal to no oil and salt, and no animal products) to share. If you’re not the cooking type, feel free to bring some cut-up fruit or raw veggies. Anything real and minimally processed is welcome! We just want you to come!

Please feel free to invite anyone who may be interested in coming with you! (Your dish will cover for them). Also, if you have children, say 9 and up, who are interested in healthy living, feel free to bring them along as well!

Ozark Folkways and the Wool and Wheel Spinners Guild will host a free open-house fiber play day. Anyone interested in fiber arts, regardless of skill level, is invited. You may join to spin, knit, embroider, converse, or watch others enjoy the possibilities of fiber.

Seven Fort Smith residents, including two River Valley Master Gardeners and the legendary plant specialist and landscaper, Frank Sharum, are opening their home gardens. Visitors will be inspired and learn more about landscape design, vegetable and herb gardening, growing ornamental flowers, trees and shrubs and more as they take the self-guided tour of each of the seven properties. All proceeds enable The Learning Fields to provide gardening education to all in the River Valley.

Tim will lead participants on the third Sunday foraging hikes and cooking workshops around the Ozark Folkways property. As the seasons change so will the available plants and how they are prepared. These zero-waste events will cover plant ID, Harvest and Reseeding, and Food Preparation.

Participants will learn the basics of needle felting with wool, an art that shapes wool into three dimensional forms with simple and easy to use tools. In this class, students will construct a colorful mushroom.
Class is limited to people ages 14 and up. Workshop fee includes all materials.