Welcome! You’re in the perfect place to start getting to know KC Food Circle™ farmers and the products they sell. New farmers are added to our online directory year-round, so check back often. KC Food Circle™ farmers operate within 120 miles of Kansas City and pledge to meet high standards for growing plants and mushrooms, beekeeping, and raising animals. Read the Pledges The farmers are listed in alphabetical order. Use the categories listed to the right to find specific products. If you're a farmer who wants to become a member, click here. We're a big family with a small farm in Independence, MO. We have a passion for building soil, growing amazing veggies, and building a vibrant community of local eaters.
Our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program serves our neighbors in Overland Park, Lee's Summit, Blue Springs and Independence with weekly boxes of amazing veggies. We grow food for our members without the use of chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers. We love eating fresh food and we love helping our members learn how to use our veggies to make amazing meals. Our CSA boxes are fully customizable by members. We pack each box specifically to each member's order and provide recipe options customized to their choices as well as a vibrant private Facebook group for our community members to connect and share ideas and ask questions about how to best make use of every part of their share including their carrot tops. Nestled in the rolling hills of northwest Missouri, our family's century farm hosts TableTop Farms. As a woman-owned and family-operated venture, we take pride in our seed-to-table approach.
Growing over 50 varieties of Certified Naturally Grown vegetables and herbs yield flavorful and nutrient-dense produce thats healthy for your family. We collaborate with nature, fostering healthy soils abundant with life through thoughtfully managed fertilizers and compost. This creates a thriving habitat for beneficial earthworms, nematodes, and other soil organisms. Our animals thrive through regenerative practices, contributing to the healing of our land. Our South Pole cattle graze exclusively on grass, while our farrow-to-finish hogs, meat birds, and egg layers also enjoy pasture life. They're supplemented with organic grains and any garden scraps they fancy. We love talking about growing food, food education, and nurturing community connections. Join us at the Brookside Farmers Market, Lenexa Farmers Market, or Overland Park Farmers Market. You can also explore our website at tabletopfarmsmo.com. We have an urban farm located in Kansas City, MO where we are trying to change the area one person, one family, one community at a time. W grow everything organically on our farm with a wide range to choose from...tomatoes, cucumbers, squash potatoes, beans, eggplant, herbs, garlic, peas, mushrooms, greens, strawberries, blackberries, elderberries, cabbage, kohlrabi, beets, turnips arugula, spinach, and so much more!
We also have over 50 different jellies and jams made using local produce we grow or harvested from within 75 miles of us. We have a line of Spice Blends, some using Ghost Pepper and Habaneros. We not only grow and sell at local farmers markets, but we are working with Agape Grow at Beaumount and teaching gardening cooking and canning classes. Our farm is unusual due to the fact that we love to teach others what we are doing. Not only do we sell at farmers markets but we teach people how to grow produce, can or cook with it and how to sell value added produce at farmers markets or wholesale. We have a 3 year program to help young growers learn to garden and provide enough for their families and also to sell and bring in an income. Working with Agape Grow, we have been able to expand this outreach. Food Life Joy has been providing microgreens to farmer's markets and restaurants since 2016. We use organic or non-GMO seeds (if organic is not available) and organic grow mix, that's it! Be Love Too Farm is a non-certified, organic microgreen and sheep farm. Our focus is growing the most nutrient dense microgreens (we call them shoots) and regeneratively raised grass fed, grass finished lambs.
We started our farm in partnership with Cafe Gratitude, growing organic vegetables and microgreens. Through the years we have chosen to dedicate our time and energy to microgreens and sheep, which is our passion. We sell to individuals through a subscription program, restaurants, grocery stores, the KC Food Hub, and at the Brookside Farmers Market. Lori Trojan has a multi-generational family history of cultivating and utilizing herbs for health and nourishment. She is a Master Herbalist, Master Gardener, Entrepreneur, Educator, Farmer, Author, Mother and Grandmother. Lori is the steward and owner of Wild Ivy Herb Farm, a boutique herb and elderberry farm, growing over 75 varieties of kitchen and medicinal herbs all labeled with their Latin and common names. There are currently 150 beautiful elderberry bushes with a plan for 350 more in 2025.
All of our plants are grown using sustainable and organic farming practices. We are and always will be pesticide and chemical free. We produce a full product line from the herbs and fruits harvested on the Farm from herb-infused vinegars, dried herbs, oils, salves, lip balms, soaps and teas, to a variety of elderberry products. Please visit our website at www.wildivyherbfarm.com to see all of our current offerings! Wild Ivy Herb Farm also hosts educational workshops and community gatherings. We hope to see you on the Farm! MyCo Planet is a woman-owned and operated business that is dedicated to sustainability and education. Located in North Kansas City, the farm produces a variety of delicious and nutritious mushrooms using eco-friendly methods. We are committed to sustainability and organic practices, using only the highest quality ingredients and techniques to grow our mushrooms to ensure that we are leaving a positive impact on the environment.
We believe in the power of collaboration and are dedicated to building strong relationships with our community and supporting local initiatives. We hope that our mushrooms will bring people together and foster a love of fungi. MyCo Planet was established in 2021 by owner, Robin Moore. She has a background in Biology and grew up on a small farm in Missouri where she developed a passion for growing food. Antioch Urban Growers is here to serve the community that is creating the future. We are on record to take over the world one backyard at a time and are gladly steering our resources, understanding and passion to create Kansas City as an Urban Agriculture Mecca.
With our support we extend the invitation to all, from export to beginner, to start your journey at Antioch. Located 5 minutes from downtown Kansas City at 2727 44th St. Kansas City, MO 64117, you can find us on 11 acres of personal development playgrounds. Come start your journey today! Herdsman House Farm LLC was established in March of 2020. It is a small specialty crop operation located on the greater Historic Martin Farm on the south-central side of Hillsdale Lake in Miami County, Kansas. Sharon Autry is farmer and steward of Herdsman House Farm. She grew up in rural Missouri where she tended a large garden with her family and shared the bounty with her neighbors. Her childhood experience with agriculture forever linked growing food, building community and providing equitable access to healthy, delicious food. Sharon is committed to conservation and community. Her farming practices are focused on practicing reciprocity with the land, building soil health, and imitating the patterns and preferences of nature. Her marketing goals are to provide equitable access to safe, healthy, and nutritious local food and contribute to a sustainable local food system. Herdsman House Farm grows veggies year-round and markets through Nomad Market KC in Louisburg, KS in the winter and through Rolling Prairie CSA in the summer. Transplants, produce, and sweet potato slips are also available for purchase in season or for pick up directly off farm by appointment. Co-owners Laura Christensen and Katherine Kelly have many years of farming experience and in 2019 started 2 Birds Farm on 20 acres in Kansas City, KS. At 2 Birds Farm we love growing great vegetables, eating tasty food and appreciating the wildlife, wild weather and wild challenges of farming in our area. We sell our vegetables through a CSA that offers home and office delivery of shares and at the Brookside Farmers' Market in Kansas City, MO. We currently have about two acres of open field, three high tunnels and a greenhouse in production on the farm. We also have a small flock of happy hens that provide eggs. In April and May we use our greenhouse to produce a wide variety of vegetable bedding plants for home gardeners. We offer more than 50 varieties of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, greens and more. From heirlooms to hybrids to varieties suited to containers or square foot gardening, we have you covered. It all started with a dream. A dream that I did not discover until later in life. Some of us are late bloomers, and that is okay. I always had a passion for nature and the great outdoors. Who knew it would be farming that would take a hold of me and not let go? I had the good fortune of being around other nature loving family members, namely my grandparents on my mothers side who transformed a dry and baron half acre of property in Eastern San Diego into a beautiful and fruitful property with flowers and fruit trees of all kinds. Hidden Mesa Farm is named in honor of my grandparents who lived on Hidden Mesa Road. Hidden Mesa Farm, established in the fall of 2020, is a small specialty vegetable, fruit, and herb farm located in rural Paola, Kansas. We believe strongly in using organic methods on our farm to help improve our soil health and increase the biodiversity that exists on our small piece of land that we now steward. Our homegrown produce is available during the Farmers Market season in Ottawa, Kansas from May through the end of October and through a small membership CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. In the off-season, we continue to grow under cover and offer vegetables and microgreens for sale through our email newsletter our local community. Please reach out if you would like to get on our email list or have any questions. We would be more than happy to answer any questions and offer you a personal tour of our farm by appointment only. Please contact me by email (linked in icon below) or by phone- (913) 707-1647. Our brand-new website is up in 2024 at www.hiddenmesafarm.com. You can also follow us on Instagram @hiddenmesafarm. We are looking forward to hearing from you! Nina & Todd Danner. New Roots is a training program that empowers refugees, immigrants and English Language Learner farmers to develop sustainable businesses. The collaboration between Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas and Cultivate KC helps individuals with an agricultural background in their home countries adapt to Kansas City climate and culture while supporting their families. Our trainee and graduate farmers use organic principles and sell their produce to local restaurants, at farmers markets and through Farm Share subscriptions. JCCC Open Petal Farm was started on two acres of campus in 2010 to provide a learning lab for students in the Sustainable Agriculture program. It has since grown to 3 acres and added a mixed fruit orchard, 300 blueberry bushes, a student designed edible forest, a moveable high tunnel, a solar storage shed, a coolbot refrigerated trailer, and numerous other projects. Produce is sold through Rolling Prairie CSA and an on-campus farmers market. Pat and Rachels Gardens LLC is a USDA certified organic family farm located between Lawrence, Kansas and Olathe, Kansas just south of DeSoto. Jim and Sandra Leek and their children worked together to create Pat and Rachel's Gardens LLC. Pat and Rachel are two children of our clan who have passed away, and we created this farm to honor them. As a family we continue to grow local, sustainable, and organic food to honor our Maker. We value community and believe we can help create a healthier future for us all by nurturing this community from the ground up. We are Solar Organic and Local. SOL food. In addition to producing food, we are a Certified Organic Processor which means we are licensed to wash, prepare, process, and freeze, and freeze dry organic products (which will be available at the Brookside Farmers Market and Overland Park Farmers Market as well as The Community Mercantile in Lawrence). As part of our dedication to the local food network, we are farmer members of the Kansas City Food Hub where James served as a board member for four years. We are primarily solar powered and use a pond-fed, drip irrigation system to use resources as sustainably as we can here in Kansas. We invite you to support Pat and Rachels Gardens in creating a healthier future by buying Solar Organic Local food: SOL food. James Leek, co-owner of Pat & Rachels Gardens has supported research and dissemination of best practices through SARE and USDA grants. He has shared his knowledge with the community through keynote presentations at the Kansas State Olathe campus and at the University of Missouri Extension in St. Peters, Missouri. The Fruitful Hills CSA community of horse-powered family farms grows the products for 25 weeks of deliveries in the summer, beginning early May and ending mid-October. Our community also grows products for a winter CSA, beginning mid-November, and ending in late April with 12 bi-weekly deliveries. Fruitful Hills CSA grows high quality, healthy products. We started with vegetables 15 years ago, and now include eggs, chicken, turkey, beef, pork, raw dairy, honey, canned goods, cornmeal, popcorn, and apple cider. Fruitful Hills CSA offers farmers in our community the opportunity to take part in our grower’s circle. Members of our grower’s circle must uphold exacting standards for quality and land stewardship. Eight families grow a variety of vegetables for the summer and winter CSA seasons with consistently high quality. Our crops include heirloom and hybrid tomatoes, lettuces, baby leaf salad mixes, carrots, radishes, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, bok choi, kale, peppers, cherry tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe, sweet corn, zucchini, cucumbers, green beans, potatoes, and strawberries. Share subscribers in the summer 2023 season received strawberries for 5 weeks, melons for 9 weeks, tomatoes for 19 weeks, and lettuce for 16 weeks. Our winter share subscribers enjoy a mix of root crops, fresh and storage vegetables, canned goods, fresh salad mixes, and head lettuce. Using high tunnels in the winter season gives our subscribers soil-grown fresh greens. We delivered fresh greens even in December, January, and February. We grow varieties harvested and delivered at the peak of their flavor and nutrition. We grow for flavor, not for easy shipping. We grow vegetables high in minerals and nutrients. We avoid the use of synthetic sprays and fertilizer, only using products labeled for organic production. We build soils with green cover crops, compost, and manure, using proper withdrawal periods for manure application of 120 days before harvest. Using horsepower for field work and growing crops in high tunnels, we generate a small carbon footprint. We heat the high tunnels with wood in the coldest days of winter for the early tomatoes. Doing so allows us to deliver to subscribers fresh, soil-grown tomatoes early in the summer season. We raise our animals outdoors on free-range pasture. During extreme weather, we provide proper shelter. Fruitful Hills growers do not use mRNA vaccines. A benefit to subscribers is the annual farm visit and tour, held in early summer. We invite subscribers to visit the farms to see our farming practices and talk with the people growing their food. We feel it’s proper to say, “From our fields to your table, using sustainable farming practices with your family’s health and the health of the environment for future generations in mind.” We look forward to having you join us for the 2024 summer CSA season starting May 8. Adams ORAC Farm is a diversified food forest with a multitude of plants, mushrooms and animals. We sell to the public directly from the farm in Independence, MO at 18103 E Courtney Atherton Rd and also offer a CSA. You can also find us at the City Market, Independence Farmers Market and Via Del Senior at 17400 Courtney Atherton Rd.
We sell eggs, flowers, fruit, herbs, honey, mushrooms and vegetables both annual and perennial blackberries, current raspberries, aronia berries, elderberries, apples, apricots, plumbs, nectarines, pears, peaches and currants. We also offer prepared goods including jams and jellies. We have sold our meat direct since 2006. As of 8-10-2020 we also have Barnard Processing which completes our Farm To Fork operation. Our meats are all dry aged and processed under USDA Inspection. Our goal has been and remains to connect awesome farmers with happy eaters! We are a fourteen-acre urban farm in southern Wyandotte County bringing people of all ages, abilities, and ancestries on-farm, hands-on connecting them to the land and soil, themselves, and their community. We scaffold our educational opportunities so that pre-k children can get outside, move around, and experience farm life; elementary-aged children can feel the joy of growing and eating fresh food; and tweens, teens, and young adults can begin to experience regenerative agriculture as part of the entire food system, and perhaps as a vocation having internalized the skills they need during their time visiting. We participate as a host farm in the Growing Growers program. We grow organic food and feed our own 40-member CSA, host a weekly on-farm pay-what-you're-able farmers market that accepts SNAP and utilizes the Double-Up Food Bucks program. Hello! We are David's Pasture: a multi-generational multi-family multi-species pasture-based farm just east of the KC area started in 2011 by the Kesten family. We believe in working with Creation to heal the ground and ourselves. We raise cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys out on pasture using intensive rotation and regenerative practices. We want to build up healthy soil and raise happy animals! We also want a more transparent food system: come tour our farm in the summer and see what we do. We deliver meats and eggs to homes like yours on a weekly basis. We support other local businesses by partnering with them in livestock production or offering their products on our website at davidspasture.com. Sacred Sun Farm is a diverse organic farm nestled amongst the rolling hills of Jefferson County, just north of Lawrence, Kansas. We grow a wide range of vegetables, fruits, grains, medicinal and culinary herbs for our Farm Share/ CSA and Farmers Market in KC. With roughly 3 acres into vegetable production each year, we work closely with the soil, plants and animals to find balance and create a reciprocal and sustainable relationship of respect and care. We are committed to nurturing our deep connection to the Earth by tending and mending our relationships through these observations and growing practices. In 2003, we began growing organic fruits and vegetables on Rebecca’s family farm in rural, northeastern Clay County, Missouri. We focus on building the soil through biological farming methods, including extensive cover cropping. The farm is home to two farmers, two cats, 140 hens, two roosters and countless frogs, butterflies, birds and insects. Our infrastructure is focused on sustainable energy and includes a passive solar greenhouse, 30 gpm solar-powered irrigation system, electric tractor and utility vehicle, and a 20kW solar array. The 200+ acre family farm is planted in native grasses, good habitat for deer, turkey, quail, coyotes, and many other species of wildlife. We grow an acre of crops for our live culture fermented krauts, kimchi and pickles, as well as a large community garden for ourselves and our workers. A laying flock of 80 pastured hens provides eggs for the crew and customers at the farmers market. Our fermented foods are produced on the farm in our commercial kitchen and are sold through subscription, at the Brookside Community Market and local stores. In 2019, we installed an alley-cropping system of berms and swales with perennial plantings. This work is ongoing and next stages include planting more tree and shrubs along with the incorporation of a small flock of sheep. Pinwheel Farm began as a dream — first the fantasy of a tiny cabin in the woods, raising sheep and spinning yarn…various revisions over the years…then much later a roughly sketched business plan for a 20 acre vegetable farm as a class project.
We supply non-irrigated vegetables and other horticultural crops, forage-fed lamb meat, poultry and wool products to our community through on-farm sales, the Downtown Lawrence Farmers’ Market, and locally owned restaurants. Our mission is to help people to live simply, sustainably, and spiritually as part of the Earth’s Community of Life by developing, modeling and teaching innovative alternatives to conventional input-dependent agriculture and consumerist lifestyles and economies. Karbaumer Farm is a small, seventeen-acre farm just outside Platte City and Kansas City, Missouri. We've been growing vegetables here since 2004. Almost three acres are in vegetable production.
We say we are farming "back to the future" because our farm is powered by draft horses. To help protect air and planet, our vegetables are grown without chemicals of any kind. We sell our produce to local restaurants and families who live nearby. Gleaners from After The Harvest pick up our extra vegetables and distribute them to families who are in need of healthy food. We collect rain water to reduce water consumption and we purchase 'green power' from our local utility. Our old farmhouse is heated with two wood-burning stoves we feed by cutting our own firewood. Our bees produce honey in hives we keep behind the barn and our hens roam freely in the afternoon sun. The horses, goats and a little donkey graze the pastures contentedly. Animals who come to live on our farm have found their forever homes. We take orders for processed chickens and turkeys from Mast Pastured Poultry in Jamesport, Missouri. The Masts own a small Amish farm and raise their poultry on pasture and in accordance with the Food Circle pledges. We do not charge the farm or the consumer for this service. "There's something about the outside of a horse that's good for the inside of a man." Winston S. Churchill The Buffalo Seed Company was launched by Dr. Matthew & Nancy Kost in October, 2018. Nancy is from the Altiplano of Bolivia and grew up growing quinoa, potato, and llamas in a resilient system that predates the Inca Empire. She has since acquired a bachelor degree in agronomy from Earth University in Costa Rica, and a Master of Science Degree in tomato breeding from The Ohio State University.
Matthew is originally from Kansas City and has returned after obtaining a Bachelor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Agroecology from The Ohio State University. Matthew has also worked in conserving amaranth and quinoa landrace diversity in Peru and arid adapted crops in the Greater Southwest. Matthew and Nancy have deep knowledge and wisdom of seeds, seed systems, evolution, ecology, and adaptation. Importantly, we have two little helpers that mean the world to us, Silveria and Thomas. The Buffalo Seed Company supplies growers with bioregionally adapting seeds to increase the resiliency and sustainability of our local food systems. While our local food systems are strengthening, the seed system underlying them are far from local. In fact, many seeds offered to growers are sourced from outside their bioregion and often times outside the country. It is time for us to integrate locally adapting, as well as adaptable seeds, into our local food systems and to secure a bioregional seed source that can withstand change. The Buffalo Seed Company has taken on this task as our contribution to push local food production in our bioregion to the next level, locally grown crops from bioregionally grown seeds. This is not a new idea, but the foundations of truly resilient and sustainable agricultural systems; this can be seen in every crop center of origin around the world. Return to Directory Home Page |