​We are master beekeepers and have been in business for more than 34 years. We love keeping bees and love the way it keeps us in tune with the natural world around us. We strive to make as many products as we can with our honey and beeswax. We love to talk bees with people.

Marla and Brian Biggs began this first generation farm just outside of Paola, Kansas in 2013 with a small herd of Scottish Highland cattle. At Hedgewood Farms, our mission is to provide premium quality pastured beef, pork, poultry, eggs and produce, practicing humane and sustainable regenerative farming. We provide families with real, healthy, and delicious whole food choices. Hand raised, and home grown.

We are passionate about providing food that sustains the land and feeds families the healthiest most nutritional food possible. We are helping save the planet with regenerative farming. Our cattle are Scottish Highland, South Pole and Angus and they are 100% grass fed and finished. Our hogs are raised on woodland forage and our broilers and egg layers are raised on pasture to help restore land health and encourage biodiversity. Poultry and hogs are supplemented with 100% organic grains. Our farm includes a small market garden that follows organic practices.

We invite you to visit our website and become a Hedgewood Farms family subscriber. Subscribers have priority access to all our products. When supplies are low, we reserve inventory for you first on standing order items. Delivery is free within our delivery radius with a minimum order amount. The best way to ensure you can feed your family high- quality whole foods year round. Find us at these markets in 2022: Lenexa Farmers Market, Brookside Farmers’ Market.

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.

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.​

Founded by the farmers who own, run and supply it.

The Kansas City Food Hub was founded in 2016 by a group of small farmers who envisioned a local food system that allowed farmers to move their product into restaurants, schools, homes and more. They not only wanted to feed their communities but uphold their beliefs of sustainable farming for themselves and the next generations. 

In addition to integrating local food into the Kansas City Metro Supply Chain, The Kansas City Food Hub focuses on…

• Stewardship of the land and its resources
• Mentoring of young and emerging farmers
• Honest wages for honest work
• Collaboration toward food sovereignty
• Cooperative production planning, marketing and purchasing of resources​

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Our small and medium-sized farmers are improving the economic viability of sustainable local agriculture by coordinating year-round production, by supporting emerging growers, by aggregating the distribution of product, and by bringing farmers and buyers together in a   community that benefits all.

The KCK Farmers Market is one of only four farmers markets in all of Wyandotte County. We bring high quality, local food to Wyandotte neighborhoods that either lack access to grocery stores or have populations of high need. We make nutritious food more affordable for SNAP recipients and low-income seniors, who make up the majority of our market customers.

We aim to...

• Increase access to nutritious locally grown food through food assistance education, promotion of farmers and nutrition education.
• Provide food assistance benefits to lowest income populations (we are currently the highest redeemers of food assistance benefits in the entire metro area).
• Stimulate the local economy by providing support for growers and entrepreneurs to sell their products in a stable, high-traffic, market with income-based booth rates and multilingual business management resources.
• Partner with organizations and businesses to create inclusive multicultural programming through neighborhood engagement opportunities.

Come see us at the Merc Co+op in KCK , Saturdays 8am-12pm.

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