Newsletter-Late-Week

Ozark Homesteading Workshops Share Farm-ways, Food and Fun at the Ozark Folk Center

The Ozark Folk Center State Park Craft Village will host Ozark Farmways Homesteading workshops Friday and Saturday, June 27 & 28, 2025. Workshops include Composting for a Healthy Garden; How to Sharpen Your Knives; Using Goats, Sheep & Chickens to Reclaim Land; Make Your Own Sauerkraut; Donkey Power in the Ozarks; Weave a Rag Rug; Herbal Bug Repellents; History, Herbs & Healing; and more. For a schedule, look on the website at OzarkFolkCenter.com. There is no preregistration required. The regular Craft Village admission fee covers all workshops. The Village is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Searcy County Graduate Awarded Master Gardeners Scholarship

Join with us in congratulation Kassidy Clark a recent graduate of Searcy County High School, in being awarded the 76 State Master Gardeners Scholarship. This Scholarship will be used to help Kassidy as she attends Arkansas Tech, beginning this fall. Kassidy will be pursuing an agriculture related degree. Kassidy has been active in both 4H and FFA here in Searcy County. We congratulate her and wish her well as she steps into her next adventure in life.

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Ozark Mountain School District Facing Hard Decisions

Jess Knapp, Principal of St. Joe and Bruno-Pyatt Elementary Schools, provided the Marshall Rotary Club an engaging discussion of current challenges that small rural school districts are experiencing. He was prepared to talk about a new reading process the schools have implemented. But the group’s interest in the issues surrounding the OMSD took over the conversation. He was invited back at another date to discuss the reading process implemented by the schools. Mr. Knapp gave some school demographic info. The Ozark Mountain School District (OMSD) is spread across 3 counties (Searcy, Newton and Marion). Students, parents and taxpayers in three counties with three different cultures surrounding each school present a unique challenge.

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