Arkansas Interfaith Power & Light

04/25/2025

Happy Arbor Day! Our partner Providence Park Home has named its new edible orchard area EDEN GROVE. Providence Park held an online poll to select a name for the edible orchard, now in the planning stages for nut trees, fruit trees, and shade trees to be installed. Already, seedlings are under cultivation. https://www.facebook.com/providenceparkhome

An innovative housing initiative aimed at providing permanent, supportive, and sustainable housing to chronically homeless individuals in Central Arkansas.

04/20/2025

We are busy this spring with vegetable gardens, planting trees, chickens, and more!

02/19/2025

All are welcome to attend this retreat in Fayetteville. Use the QR code to register.

12/13/2024

The Great Food Rescue! Turning organic waste into compost keeps methane-producing matter out of landfills and benefits garden beds. We are doing it at 20 locations in Faulkner and Pulaski Counties. Join our efforts!

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12/05/2024

Good Garden News! Click on the pic of the First Presbyterian Church garden to read about sustainable agriculture efforts.

Whether it be through local colleges, public schools, businesses, or organizations, Conway offers various avenues for the community to participate in small agriculture.

11/14/2024

Taco Night! University of Central Arkansas students prepared and served tacos and salsa, using fresh produce from an on-site garden at Bethlehem House. Arkansas Interfaith Power & Light supports the garden, which was installed last Spring. Residents have been helping in the garden, learning regenerative agriculture skills. The UCA students planned a budget-friendly filling meal at about $4.50 per person.

11/07/2024

22 Hendrix students and friends participated in a Pumpkin Slash today, diverting an estimated 180 pounds of organic waste from the landfill to a compost system at an on-campus garden.

11/01/2024

Congratulations to Ellen Smith Elementary School for earning the Best Education Based School Garden - a winner in the 2024 Arkansas Grown School Garden of the Year contest. We have fond memories from four years ago. You have grown!

10/30/2024

Watch a 9-minute Ted Talk on how soil can help save our planet. It's a crash course on soil health and carbon sequestration.

Regenerative soil practices are a bright spot for climate change, food security, health, community building, and everything in between. With biomimicry as a ...

10/17/2024

If you missed Monday's webinar on faithful voting, here is the link. It was one of the best ever presented by Presbyterians for Earth Care. We start off with prayer. I encourage you to watch and listen. The presenter is an attorney and a scriptural scholar. Interfaith Power & Light

10/14/2024

Monday with Marqus - Webinar Tonight! Marqus is an attorney working as Organizing Director for Georgia Interfaith Power & Light. He will share a call to shared values and vision for the types of policies that care for creation. Register here https://presbyearthcare.org/faithful-voting-2024-living-out-our-values-at-a-hinge-moment/ and join us tonight to discuss faithful voting with the planet in mind. Interfaith Power & Light, Presbyterians for Earth Care