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Much like wild grapes, persimmons, and paw paws that seasonally fruit on the Ozarks, edible mushroom varieties also appear in early spring, summer and autumn. Jacqueline Froelich takes us foraging for springtime mushrooms on the Boston Mountains, guided by sustainable wild foods forager, Jake Parette.
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The Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship brings together the most promising students to embark on their career of public service. Several UofA students have been finalists or won the award, but one current student is this year's only finalist.
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Today, we go chasing waterfalls—or, at least, we tell you where you can find some. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis gives some recommendations for hiking paths that include scenic water features.
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The Northwest Arkansas Skateboarding Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to growing and supporting the skateboarding community. Founder and president Roy Rodezno visited the Bruce and Anne Applegate News Studio One to speak with Ozarks at Large's Jack Travis about the organization and how skateboarding has affected his own personal development.
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Circles NWA, a nonprofit with a declared intention to end poverty in the community, will host a public discussion about housing at the Fayetteville Public Library on April 10. Ana Hurley, the big view director at Circles NWA, visited the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the public discussion.
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A group of art students at the University of Arkansas consider what we value as a society by exploring a remnant prairie in south Fayetteville.
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Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams heads over to downtown Fayetteville bar Pinpoint to speak with owner Bo Counts about an exciting new pop-up event at the venue— one that may outdo their Halloween and Christmas celebrations.
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Next week, the Associated Press’ chief election analyst, Chad Day, will speak on the University of Arkansas campus as the 2024 Roy Reed lecturer as a guest of the University of Arkansas School of Journalism and Strategic Media. This week, Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams talked with him about the work the Associated Press does to declare a political winner.
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Sophia Nourani speaks with Lowkey Art’s Sonny Kay about Atlas Obscura’s Ecliptic Festival, a four day event taking place in Hot Springs during the total solar eclipse in early April.
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Minerals like lithium are critical for a transition away from fossil fuels, and it turns out south Arkansas may hold the key to an electric future. But is an electric future environmentally sustainable, and how do bromine extraction wells fit into the picture? Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis is taking us out of Northwest Arkansas and down south to an old oil field with the potential to economically impact the entire nation.
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A proposal by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ administration would cut funding for fourteen of the state’s fifteen education service cooperatives by more than $4 million for the 2025 fiscal year.
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Ozarks at Large's host, Kyle Kellams, sits down with Jamie Baum, an associate professor in the University of Arkansas’ Department of Food Science who directs the Center for Human Nutrition, and Erin Howie, an associate professor in exercise science in the UofA Department of Human Health, Performance and Recreation. This is the first of many discussions about balancing nutrition, exercise, and health that will continue through 2024.