Arkansas Hemp Festival and Awards Gala Event are scheduled for the weekend of April 24 and 25. The weekend will feature many live musical performances and after-parties each night. David Owen, Co-founder of the event states, “Arkansas Hemp Festival is a celebration of the first legal hemp harvest in the state in the past eighty years and also the flagship fundraiser for the Arkansas Farmer Veteran Coalition which runs Homegrown By Heroes.”
The weekend of festivities will begin the evening of Friday, April 24 with the Arkansas Hemp Awards Gala. VIP ticket holders will join in the first major celebration of Arkansas’ first legal harvest in eighty years. Awards will be given for categories including, Indoor Cultivator of the Year, Outdoor Cultivator of the Year, Processor of the Year, Retailer of the Year, Edible Product of the Year, and Hemp Leader of the Year.
The full-day draw for the event are Saturday’s festivities at the Hot Springs Convention Center, will include more live music, food, a huge VIP sampling tent, expert industry panels, with vendors rounding out the largest festival of its kind in Arkansas.
Proceeds of the big event will go to Homegrown By Heroes (HBH), the official farmer veteran branding program of America. The HBH label serves to inform consumers that agricultural products donning the logo are produced by U.S. military veterans.
For tickets, visit www.ARHempFestival.com. For more information, contact Arkansas Hemp Festival (Green Rush Events, LLC) by email at greenrusheventsllc@gmail.com, or call 501-420-2948. Find them on Facebook: ARHempFestival, Twitter.com/ARHempFestival, and Instagram.com/ARHempFestival.
