STEVE MANN - KC Food Circle Member Grower - Named "Best Urban Farmer"

From: The Pitch

Best Urban Farmer

Steve Mann, Platte Prairie Farms

Venue

Platte Prairie Farms

6310 Northwest Waukomis
Kansas City, MO
816-352-9213

Steve Mann is known as "the squash father." Part of that has to do with Mann's cultivation of the delectable yellow fruit at his Platte Prairie Farm in the Northland and his annual Squash Blossom Festival, a gathering of environmentalists and foodies. He's also building a political machine, a network of metro residents operating under the radar to overthrow the prevailing agricultural paradigm. Mann is the local face of the Food Not Lawns movement, which aims to reclaim urban space for agrarian purposes such as, well, squash production...

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See also:

http://www.PrairieTrading.com/
http://www.SquashBlossomKC.org/
http://www.FoodNotLawnsKC.org/