ATTENTION PRECIOUS "EATERS" & FAR-OUT "FOOD REVOLUTIONISTS" -
OOOOOH BABY......there has never been a "riper" time for URBAN AGRICULTURE
& LOCAL FOOD. For Farmer Brooke & Farmer Dan, this Friday & Saturday is the CLIMAX of our efforts as rebel farmers, agrarian urbanites, and community activists!! We have been working towards this day since late last August when we began cultivating our 13.5 acre RAW piece of land in the heart of KCMO (right about the time I unknowingly conceived my child). Nine months later (baby still in belly) we have transformed our blood, sweat, and tears into gorgeous fields of organic vegetables, an antique apple and pear orchard, chestnuts, peaches, plums, pastures full of heritage chickens, geese, ducks, and the list goes on....
It all comes to a head this weekend!! Join your favorite gang of growers this Friday at the BADSEED Funky Farmers Market for a SPECIAL EVENT
to honor our market and celebrate all urban farmers, markets, and food revolutionaries in Kansas City. The festivities will begin around 4:00 and last until about 5:00. The market will go on as normal, but get here early and don’t miss this special hour as BADSEED and all of KC gets some serious "locavore love". The veggies will still be sexy, the food will be funky-fresh, and the farmers will all be friendly, BUT this hour of love will only happen once. SO COME EARLY and beat the First Friday crowd to help us celebrate this special occasion!!!!
And it doesn't stop there...
Come Saturday, slap your sunscreen on, and join us from 2-6 PM at the
GRAND OPENING of URBAVORE URBAN FARM
(one of the largest urban farms in the nation just 5 miles east of the Plaza!!). We'll be selling urban-grown goodness straight from the field at our weekly Farmstand and launching
KC's FIRST City-Wide Residential Composting Program
.
Festivities will include: LIVE MUSIC, FRESHER THAN FRESH SNOWCONES!!, FARM TOURS, COMPOST Education, and KIDS Activities (baby chicks, geese, and ducks!).
Address and map is as follows:
URBAVORE URBAN FARM, 5500 Bennington Avenue, KCMO 64129 (click for map!!)
Compost Program in a Nut Shell:
This is a FREE city-wide program that will accept ALL FOOD SCRAPS (including cooked foods, meat, and dairy) as well as limited yard waste (grass clippings and leaves). These organic materials will be composted in large windrows on-site. Finished compost will be applied liberally over URBAVORE's vegetable and orchard grounds and be "fed" back to the community in the form of luscious organic produce at our weekly
Farmstand which will run every Saturday, June-October, 2-6 PM.
It is our goal to utilize the city's organic waste (keeping it out of landfills and waterways) while meeting the demand of healthy, organic, whole FOODS that are hard to come by on KC's east side. We will be making this food affordable at our weekly farmstand through the Beans & Greens Program which doubles consumer's food stamp dollars!!
Again, the Grand Opening is this Saturday, 2-6 PM. Farmstand will continue every Saturday through October. Compost Drop is year-round, Wed - Sat, 9-6 PM. Confused?? Need Directions?? Visit our Website at www.badseedkc.com!!
LAST BUT NOT LEAST - Today, May 31st, is my birthday!!! I am 29 going on 92!....(or atleast that's how my pregnant farmer bones feel). Needless to say, I didn't get to celebrate today and I plan to drop dead come Sunday!!.....so our only chance to "party" is this Saturday at the Grand Opening! BYOB....and don't forget to bring one for me and the baby!
Okay, enough already.....let's get back on track with our normal "farmers market jive". Without further ado:
SEXY VEGGIE OF THE WEEK
This week's Runner-Up is KILLER KALE in RED RUSSIAN, WINTER BORE, & RED BORE !! Mama says "EAT YOUR GREENS" and chomping down on some oh so sexy, oh so hearty, oh so delicious Killer Kale is a good place to start. Why you ask??? Well, Kale happens to be one of the most nutritious greens on the market with powerful antioxidant
This week's Grand-Prize-Winner is the totally outrageous, utterly irresitable, radiant and ravishing
RAINBOW CHARD!!!.
**For those of you who are new to preparing chard, here is a link to a nice, straight-forward recipe - Rainbow Chard with Lemon, Capers & Parmesan. However, just use whatever ingredients you have on-hand and don't be afraid to improvise. For example, instead of lemon and capers use pine nuts and yellow raisins! Have fun.
SEXY Photos are attached. You know the drill - print them out, blow them up, and plaster them all over the men's room!
THIS WEEK'S ORGANIC OFFERINGS -
URBAVORE Urban Farm
A project of BADSEED - Brooke Salvaggio & Daniel Heryer
5500 Bennington, Kansas City, MO 64129
Welcome to URBAVORE - an off-grid, diversified, urban farmstead in the heart of KCMO. Born in 2011, URBAVORE is working towards the creation of an “edible oasis” that brings organic growth, sustainable life, and creative solutions to a city neighborhood. We grow an extensive variety of heirloom vegetables noted for their unique appearance and extraordinary flavor, as well as an array of culinary/medicinal herbs and edible flowers. URBAVORE is a non-certified, beyond organic operation dedicated to respecting both the health of the individual and the environment. It is our aim to build community and collective consciousness through the universal pleasure that comes from eating good food.
OFFERINGS:
*RED BORE KALE, WINTER BORE KALE, & RED RUSSIAN KALE
*RAINBOW CHARD !!!!
*LUSCIOUS LETTUCE HEADS (in assorted gourmet varieties)
*Oasis Gourmet SALAD TURNIPS
*RUBY RED Oriental Turnips
*Gold Ball Turnips (buttery and delicious)
*Radiant RADISHES in Easter Egg
*"Sex in a Bowl" Signature Salad Mix
* Red Velvet Lover's Gourmet Lettuce Mix
*JAPANESE Giant Red MUSTARDS
* Bodacious Braising Mix (with baby kale and baby swiss chard)
*Peppery & Perfect ARUGULA
*Garden Fresh Chives
*ORGANIC HERB TRANSPLANTS
Herb'n Garden
Lew Edmister & Destiny Riggs
17th and Belleview, Kansas City, MO 64108
For the “meanest greens” in town, check out Lew and Destiny's gourmet selection of urban-grown goodies. They grow a mouthwatering array of lettuces, spicy mustards, arugula, and gourmet salad mixes on KC’s west side. Other tasty morsels include heirloom tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, okra, and filet beans. New For 2011 -RUSTIC BREAD straight from Lew’s hand-built wood-fired oven. YUM!
OFFERINGS From the Lips of Lew:
"
i've heard a few low rumbling grumbles from some of our csa members about the, let's say, abundance, of salad mixes they're consuming. how fortunate for them, i think, but i also have a few treats to make the pleasure of really organic local salad mixes more of a treat....and this goes for all you market goers and all consumers:
start with some slices of cold bulb fennel and tender young green onions. add to them some cilantro if you wish and load all that on baby arugula (limited supply) or go to our arugula mix, spice on spice, or soften it with green goodness, or make it even sweeter with soft sweetness mix. there's plenty for you kale freaks and lots of tender swiss chard. there'll stll be hot peppers and herb transplants as well. "
- lew and destiny
JJ Farms
John & Judy Kaiahua
8531 E. 81st Terrace, Raytown, MO 64138
John has been growing organically since 1984!! He plants, weeds, and harvests all his own crops on urban land that has been chemical free for over 20 years. Produce includes a wide array of vegetable offerings as well as apples, peaches, and pears in season. John is originally from the far off lands of Hawaii where he comes from a long line of pearl divers!! Now he spends his days out of the ocean and in the dirt, growing righteous foods for the Kansas City community. Lucky us!
OFFERINGS:
*SUGAR SNAP PEAS!!!!
*Bok Choy
*LETTUCE Heads
Bigg Blue Farm
Stan & Carmen Biggs
19801 NE U.S. Highway 69, Liberty, MO 64068
Despite full-time jobs, Stan and Carmen Biggs still find time to organically grow an impressive array of colorful vegetables, greens, and storage crops on 7 fertile acres in Mosby, MO. Stan started out growing nutritious foods for his family as a 4-H project as a small boy. Stan’s passion for gardening was renewed when he met his wife Carmen, who grew up on her family’s 1,500-hectare farmstead in Romania that had passed through many generations. Today they cultivate the earth together, bringing well-fed customers delicious homegrown foods every Friday night at the BADSEED Farmers Market and through their Community Supported Agriculture program.
OFFERINGS:
*Spinach
*Baby Siberian Red Kale
* "TENDER GREEN" MUSTARD!!!
*Green Onions
*Tokyo Turnips
*Red & Green Lettuce Heads
*Red & Green Bok Choy
*Totsoi
*Early Frosty SHELL PEAS!!!!
PJ's Mushroom Farm
Paul & Judy Miller
916 SW State Route 13, Leeton, MO 64761
yopjmiller7569@yahoo.com
916 SW State Route 13, Leeton, MO 64761
yopjmiller7569@yahoo.com
"We purchase innoculated mushroom blocks from a Certified Organic supplier and place them in our growing trailer & cellar. There we water & harvest & get them to market as fresh as possible. We grow SHITAKE & OYSTER MUSHROOMS. We also have over 100 laying hens that produce wonderful, fresh, brown FREE-RANGE EGGS. We do our best to REUSE, RECYCLE and REPURPOSE our RESOURCES."
OFFERINGS:
*Shitake Mushrooms
*Oyster Mushrooms (in limited quantities)
*Farm-Fresh Brown Eggs
*Recycled Yard Art including vintage garden stakes!!
Parker Farms All-Natural Meats
Tom & Paula Parker
Richmond, MO
"We produce all-natural gourmet beef, lamb, pork, poultry, and eggs. All of our beef and lamb is 100% grassfed. They are never fed any grain, animal by products, antibiotics, or injected with growth hormones. We have been practicing Management Intensive Grazing since 1997. It is our goal to care for all of the livestock that we have been blessed with, in as natural and humane a manner as we can. Our chickens for meat and eggs are also raised on pasture with green grass under their feet as much as the weather in this part of the world allows. Our hogs are fed grain, but do live outdoors with dirt under their feet. We do not use any petroleum based pesticides or fertilizers on our pastures. We believe that healthy people, and healthy animals start with healthy plants and a healthy, biologically active, soil community. Our meats are available at the BADSEED Market or through our Community Supported Agriculture shares."
OFFERINGS:
*Ground Beef Patties
*Pork Brats
**Pastured Chickens coming in June!!!
**Pastured Thanksgiving TURKEYS available for PRE-ORDER!! Talk to Paula Parker at market so she can order enough babies!!!!
*Tea Towels, Hand-made Teas, Candles, and Gourd Bird Houses from the lovely Parker Girls!!
Green Dirt Farm
Jacqueline Smith & Sarah Hoffman
Weston, MO
"Life is too short to eat grocery store cheeses! Green Dirt Farm, LLC invites you to try our HANDCRAFTED ARTISANAL SHEEP CHEESES created with milk from our very own PASTURED ewes. You can be assured of a richness and depth of flavor unique to the rolling bluffs of Weston, MO. Also on the menu is 100% GRASS-FED LAMB which is of unsurpassed quality, tenderness, and flavor."
OFFERINGS:
*Grass-Fed Lamb
*Artisan Sheep's Milk Cheese in aged and fresh varieties
New Traditionalist - Artisan Bread
Chris Glenn
Kansas City, MO
Chris produces old-world, rustic loaves from the finest locally-grown and milled flour on the market. His breads are made from a sour-dough "starter", lovingly kneaded, and baked to perfection in a wood-fired oven. Flour and water never tasted so good!
OFFERINGS:
*Country Loaf (a tangy, crusty organic pain au levain)
*Whole Wheat Loaf (crusty and rustic yet mildly sweet in flavor, coated with toasty bran!)