When shopping at your local grocery store, you may have noticed that the demand for meat has risen as major processing facilities try to keep up with eager shoppers competing to stock up on their choice cuts of beef and pork amid the COVID-19 pandemic. If you are shopping for meat, you may want to […]
Arkansas’s very own apple Did you know Arkansas has an apple named after it? Probably not, considering it comprises less than 5% of all apple production in the state. However, during the peak of our state’s apple-growing heyday, this curious fruit was a staple of the Arkansas ag industry. Its name? The Arkansas Black Apple, […]
St. Joseph Center has always worked to be a sustainable farming operation. It began as a 720-acre tract in 1907. St Joseph Center was designed by renowned architect, Charles Thompson and completed in 1910. This beautiful 56,000 sq. ft. building sits on land that has been farmed for more than a century. The Catholic church […]