Our First Harvest Hub: Stone Links Park
The City Harvest Journal | Post 2 By Patrick O'Briant, Founder and Executive Director
Every farm starts the same way: someone looks at a piece of land and decides what it could become.
Stone Links Park is Cultivation Station’s first planned Harvest Hub. Through a facility agreement with the City of North Little Rock Parks and Recreation Department, Cultivation Station has access to up to 10 acres at the park for agricultural and educational use.
A Harvest Hub is our name for a working growing and teaching site. These sites are intended to bring food production, practical education, and community benefit together in one place.
Stone Links Park is still in the development stage. It is not yet operating as a full production or training site.
Where the work stands
When this article was first published in May, we expected to begin field establishment during summer 2026. That work has taken longer than anticipated.
Current priorities include establishing reliable water access, preparing the growing area, securing appropriate equipment, planning irrigation, and completing the coordination and approvals required for site improvements. These systems need to be dependable before we announce planting schedules or public programming.
We will continue sharing dated updates as the work advances.
What Stone Links Park is intended to become
A production site
Our initial production focus is sweet potatoes, a crop well suited to the site’s food-access purpose and Central Arkansas growing conditions. Additional vegetables and other crops may be introduced as infrastructure and production capacity develop.
Harvest from the site is intended to reach the community through a combination of direct sales and structured donations.
A training site
Stone Links Park is planned as a place where people can develop practical growing skills through hands-on experience.
Future programming may include mentorship, workshops, field days, volunteer learning opportunities, and focused instruction in areas such as soil preparation, crop planning, irrigation, ecological pest management, harvest handling, and food safety.
Programming will begin only as the site, staffing, and necessary resources become ready.
A demonstration site
The systems established at Stone Links Park will provide working examples of agricultural practices suited to Central Arkansas.
Rather than presenting one method as appropriate everywhere, the site will demonstrate how crop selection, soil management, irrigation, equipment, and other production decisions can be adapted to local conditions and available resources.
A source of community benefit
Stone Links Park is part of Cultivation Station’s broader effort to strengthen local food capacity. The long-term goal is not only to grow food, but also to help more people develop the knowledge and confidence to grow, prepare, and share food themselves.
Follow the work
Developing a productive site takes time, infrastructure, coordination, and sustained support. We would rather report the work accurately as it happens than announce dates before the necessary pieces are in place.
Follow the Harvest Journal for updates on Stone Links Park and Cultivation Station’s other developing projects.
If you would like to support the organization’s work, visit our Donate page. Volunteer opportunities will be published as they become available.
