 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.  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!  Bread and Roses Farm started as a large community garden and transitioned to a working farm in 2017 in order to give our land more attention. Our favorite things about farming include being a hub of increasing biodiversity for our urban neighborhood, learning from the land, and providing affordable and convenient local food for our city. The heart of a farm is our full season CSA. Our CSA is great for those who are new to the CSA model, or who don't have tons of time to go to farmers markets. We are passionate about making our CSA an easy alternative to the grocery store for those wanting to start their local food journey. We also grow a range of cut flowers for home delivered bouquets. Return to Directory Home Page 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 Italian Bed and breakfast and Sustainable learning center with a 10 acre organic farm We host a Farmers Market for free for local farmers. We are a B&B that supports local food. We sell honey, pickles and other food items. Just starting to grow elderberries. We are open to bringing children to learn about earth and soil with our addition of Casa Somerset Sustainable learning center. We do source from local farmers for dinners and cooking classes.  Farmyard KC is a small market farm, new to the KC metro, focused on leafy greens, roots, herbs and elderberries. We grow in small, human sized plots, using regenerative agriculture practices. We focus on soil health principles and the surrounding ecosystems to support our plants needs. Farmer Mickey Gallagher has been interested in small scale agriculture for quite a while, but in 2021 he started to take the necessary steps to pursue farming as his full time endeavor. While apprenticing at the local permaculture wonder farm, Urbavore, he took an online soil class and loved it so much he got a microscope to look at his own soil samples. Now in addition to his farming, he works for Compost Collective KC, Urbavore's sister company. His passion for the soil health has a direct relation to another passion of his which is cooking and preparing quality meals. He recognizes that quality food comes from a health biological rich soil, and what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Growing in permanent raised beds with the incorporation of used mushroom blocks, wood chips, locally produced compost, compost teas, perennial landscape integration, and physical barriers, Farmyard KC looks to grow real, high quality produce for the community. Green Gate Family Farm is owned and operated by Katie Nixon and Ken Barber. We established the farm in 2010 with the purchase of 67 acres in rural Missouri. After purchase, the farm was immediately transitioned into organic production. In 2014, after the 3-year transition period the farm was certified by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. In 2019, we were Real Organic Certified. In addition to the wide variety of certified organic annual and perennial produce we grow, we sell certified organic bedding plants, cut flowers, and eggs (chicken, duck, goose and turkey). We do all of this production on about 5 acres of land that includes 3 unheated high tunnels and one heated greenhouse and grow year-round. Our market outlets are mainly in the Kansas City region, but we also sell locally. Our customers include: Whole Food Market, CSA members (three sessions through-out the year), online customers, and restaurants. We also sell wholesale through the Kansas City Food Hub- a 25-member cooperative co-founded by Green Gate where Katie currently serves as President. In 2021, we added a small, but growing, flock of Katahdin sheep, which we not sell live offspring from. Our personal goals include safe, healthy food for our table, as well as for our customers, and a farm property that fits in with the ecology of the land we live on. We are striving to be a sustainable, ecologically friendly farm, and a successful farm business.  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 mother’s side who transformed a dry and barren half acre 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 in 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 to 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. We are a 14.5 acre urban farm in southern Wyandotte County bringing people of all ages, ancestries, and abilities on-farm, hands-on connecting them to the land and soil, food, community, and opportunity. 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. We also participate as a host farm in the Growing Growers program. We grow using organic methods and feed our own 40-member CSA, host a weekly on-farm Farmers Market (Wednesday 3-7pm), use a pay-what-you're-able economic model for our food and programs, and accept SNAP, Double-Up Food Bucks, and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition checks. 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. 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. We are a small family owned 2 acre operation farming organically since 1981. We have been making organic soaps and bath care products since 1985. We also teach several old world arts and crafts skills including pottery. We only use sustainable practices in our business. We grow many heirloom and specialty hard to find fruits and veggies along with herbs and orchard fruit. We also have been growing many organic micro greens since 1996. We also have a wide variety of specialty organic soaps, salves and souffles made from only the finest ingredients. We are a regional finalist in 1984 with Robert Rodale’s Organic Magazine Contest, a host farm with Growing Growers KC since 2005, a SARE grant winner 2008 Project titled, ‘Incredible Crop Yields From Small Urban Spaces,’ have shown our gardens with KCUrban Farms and Gardens Tours 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, and an Entrepreneur Showcase Slow Money Speaker 2005. Linda Hezel PhD., R.N. began as Ecosystems Steward/Artisanal Producer at Prairie Birthday Farm 30 years ago to regenerate its severely degraded soil and reconstruct the native ecosystems that would have graced the fourteen acres prior to European immigration. We acknowledge the traditional lands and territories of the indigenous peoples, who once stewarded this land. The farm is host to innumerable pollinators and wildlife as well as over 1000 trees and shrubs (many native fruit, nut, berry), dozens of flowers, fruits, herbs, vegetables and hundreds of native plant varieties that yield a complex array of ecosystem services (carbon sequestration/storage, pollinator/wildlife food/habitat) all year without synthetic chemicals or season extension structures. While producing flavorful, nutrient dense ingredients, it also serves as a teaching laboratory where Linda shares the science, craft and art of artisanal food growing with chefs, farmers, apprentices (Savanna Institute, Growing Growers, Women Food & Agriculture Network, West Central Community Action Agency, NCAPS) gardeners, nutritionists, naturalists, artists and others to promote regenerative agroforestry practices and food literacy for healthy food and nutritional wellness. Teaching others to grow and eat nutrient-dense, organic food follows the 2008 American Nurses Association resolution for nurses to serve as role models and educators by participating in and promoting nutritious foods from sustainable local food systems so as to improve eating habits, increase patient and public health, and support the long-term social, economic, and environmental well-being of workers, communities and global health.  We have an farm located in Kansas City, MO where we are trying to change the area one person, one family, one community at a time. We 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 Pepper Berries Teaching Emporium and we teach 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 Pepper Berries Teaching Emporium, we have been able to expand this outreach. Rolling Prairie is the original Midwest vegetable cooperative. The founding farmers joined together in 1994 providing a vegetable subscription service to Lawrence and Kansas City. More than 300 households receive a weekly bag of locally grown produce during the growing season. While not all of our farmers participate in the organic certification process we still follow the same natural ecologically sustainable organic practices for growing food we have used since we started over twenty years ago. Experience the local flower difference. Our 10 acre farm is situated in Piper Kansas. We grow specialty cut flowers for our Kansas City community. 100% of our flowers are grown right here in Kansas in a pollinator-safe environment and availability is based on the seasons. Varieties are carefully chosen for their suitability for cut flowers and we harvest them at their peak ripeness so that you the customer get to enjoy their longest vase life. The Natural Farmacy KC is a sustainable, organic-practice urban farm operated by Dhan Rai, a graduate of the New Roots for Refugees farm business training program. In addition to selling at the Overland Park Farmer's Market, the farm also offers a CSA farm share program that includes full and half-season share options, supplies wholesale accounts, and now also produces cut flowers for sale to the public. The Natural Farmacy sites are located in the KCK urban core and have been a great opportunity to connect with the community and make productive use of under utilized vacant land and bring fresh produce to our neighbors. Farmer Dhan is excited to bring his years of agricultural experience from the field to your table! Sarah and Nicolás García both came to urban farming in roundabout ways. Sarah studied horticulture at JCCC in 2006-2008 and Nicolás studied how the world was broken at KU 2004-2008. While at KU Nicolás found peace in his vegetable gardens and guerrilla growing operations and after leaving KU Nicolás organized The Guild of Guerrilla Growers and later Anti-Hero Farms Edible Landscaping. In 2013 Sarah and Nicolás acquired the land they cultivate and established Treehouse Urban Farm in Waldo neighborhood of KCMO. They raise Indian Runner ducks, bees, native plants, berries, herbs, greens, mushrooms, and a rotating variety of annuals and edible flowers.  The Young Family Farm is a family-run operation in midtown, Kansas City, Missouri. At the core of their work is the belief in social justice, community empowerment and collective action. In operation since 2010, the farm was more formally "established" in 2019 with the goal of providing healthy food options to residents in an area classified as a food desert and inspire community members to grow their own produce. |
