KC LOCAL FOOD BUYING CO-OPERATIVE

The Squash Blossom Food Cooperative is seeking bakers, value-added producers, produce growers, meats, dairy, poultry, eggs and locally produced
household products for sales to our members and Kansas City local eaters, restaurants and institutions.

Free up your valuable time at the farmers market next year to do what you do best. Your Co-op will connect you to your customers and help you grow as we build our local member-owned food system.

Our online marketing and ordering system :http://squashblossomcoop.org

Contact Katie Nixon 913 809-5074 katie@squashblossomkc.org

or Steve Mann 816 352-9213 steve@squashblossomkc.org

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/