Heir Property Barriers will be the main topic at the “Keeping It in the Family” Sustainable Forestry and African-American Land Retention workshop.
The session will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 8, at the Lafayette County High School cafeteria at Stamps, according to a news release from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Small Farm Program.
Topics include estate planning, wills, clearing titles on heir property, conservation programs that assist in improving forestland, managing forestland for profit and forest management plan.
“In 1920 African American farmers owned 15.6 million acres of farm land nationally; by 2012, the acreage had shrunk to only 4.6 million acres nationally,” said Henry English, director of the UAPB Small Farm Program.
The SFLR program is part of the Keeping It in the Family forest conservation model which is a collaboration of federal, state, local private and community-based organizations to help keep private forestlands in families, according to the news release.
A free lunch will be served, however pre-registration is requested. Participants with special needs or who want to be included in the luncheon count, should contact Kandi Williams, SFLR outreach coordinator, at 903-306-8663 or klwilliams4@yahoo.com or Kellye Luckett at 870-575-7226.
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff offers all of its Extension and Research programs and services without discrimination.