Did you know that the 39th Street Market is open every Wednesday until October 7th? Did you know that all the food at 39th Street is grown or produced by the people you see at the market? Did you know that all of our growers pledge to refrain from using pesticides and other methods which compromise the integrity of the land? Did you know how hard it will be to get fresh food that is not genetically modified after our local growing season is over? Come to 39th Street while you can! Get the goods! Peppers Tomatoes Eggplant Potatoes Watermelon Squash Herbs Cucumbers Onions Okra Garlic Beef Honey Salsa Jams Baked Treats And harp music to soothe the soul by Julie Sackman. See ya there! www.39thstreetmarket.com P.S. -- Mark your calendars for a fun and proactive event to help kids get healthy lunches in KC schools! See the details here...
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39th Street Community Farmers Market - Wednesdays 4:30-7:30pm
KC Organics @ Park Place (Leawood, KS) - Wednesdays 10am-2pm
KC Organics
Farmer's Market
@ Park Place
Wednesdays - 10am to 2pm
August 5, 2009 – October 14, 2009
Every Wednesday 10-2, KC Organics Farmer's Market will be at Park Place! Get your organic vegetables, baked goods, bread, honey, fair trade coffee, body care products, etc. For information about KC Organics, please visit www.kcorganics.comSee also:
http://www.kcfoodcircle.org/
and
http://www.kcfoodcircle.org/
Kearney, MO - WORKSHOP & FARM TOUR @ 2009-09-14 from 4pm – 7pm
Growing Growers
invites you to
Kearney, MO - WORKSHOP
& FARM TOUR
2009-09-14 4pm – 7pm
(Timezone: Central Time)
Kearney, MO (map)
Fruit Production
Using Sustainable Practices
Kearney Commercial Bank
950 W. 92 Highway
Kearney, MO 64060
Farm tour: Prairie Birthday Farm, Kearney
Monday, September 14th -- 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Growing fruit without synthetic inputs is challenging in our area, but the demand for locally grown fruit is high. All are welcome to join us for a presentation on options for sustainable fruit production, followed by a farm tour.
4:00 – 5:30 Sustainable Fruit Production -- Pat Byers, Regional Horticulture Specialist with University of Missouri Extension, will present information on growing practices, pest and disease control and variety selection appropriate for low input fruit production.
5:30 - 5:45 Drive to and reconvene at the farm.
5:45 - 7:00 Farm tour, Prairie Birthday Farm -- On 15 acres outside of Kearney, MO Linda Hezel and Richard Moore use permaculture techniques to grow a variety of native and specialty fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers.
== FLIER: ==
http://www.kcfoodcircle.org/docs/PrairieBirthday/PBFruitFlierFarmTour2009.pdf
Directions to Kearney Commercial Bank:
From 1-35 N, take MO 92 (Exit 26 - Kearney/Excelsior Springs).
Turn west at end of exit onto MO 92/W. Sixth St.
Go approx. 0.4 mile, to Kearney Commercial Bank,
on the right,
at 950 W. 92 Hwy.
Directions to farm will be provided at workshop.
=== email update from 8/31/2009 ===
join us for this upcoming Growing Growers workshop and farm tour:
Topic: Sustainable Fruit Production
Where: Kearney, MO
When: Monday, Sept 14th, 4 to 7 pm
Farm tour: Prairie Birthday Farm
Registration fee: $15.00
Pat Byers, Regional Horticulture Specialist with University of Missouri Extension, will present information on growing practices, pest and disease control and variety selection appropriate for low input fruit production.
The workshop will be followed by a tour of Prairie Birthday Farm, which specializes in native and specialty fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers raised using permaculture techniques.
A brochure with more detailed information (including directions) is attached. If you have any questions, or if you would like to pre-register and pay at the door, please call me at the number below or send me an email.
Regards,
Laura Christensen
Growing Growers Training Program
www.growinggrowers.org
growers @ ksu . edu
(816) 805-0362
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KC's "TIME FOR LUNCH" Slow Food USA National Eat-In - at Brookside on MONDAY, Sep. 7th, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/email-
Please contact Rochelle at rrbowings )@( gmail.com if you have any questions.
Thank you.
Rochelle
On behalf of a group of concerned citizens, I would like to invite you to participate in a public
potluck on Monday, September 7 in Kansas City, Missouri. I hope you will consider joining us on this important day.
On September 7, a group of Missouri constituents are organizing a public potluck (we call it an “Eat-In”) to demonstrate that the Kansas City Metro area is ready to provide our children with real food at school. This event is just one of hundreds taking place across America as part of the Time for Lunch National Eat-In.
What: Kansas City "Time for Lunch" Eat-In (community potluck)
Date: Labor Day- Monday, September 7, 2009
When: 12 noon- ?
Where: Border Star Montessori School-near the playground
6321 Wornall Road, KCMO
To stick with the ritual of a potluck, please bring a home-cooked dish to contribute to the community lunch feast. We will also have a solar cooker and grill (s?) on site as well. You are also invited to bring reusable utensils, plates, and cups, along with a contagious smile. Please be aware this potluck is NOT exclusive to parents or Missouri constituents, so pass this information on and join us if you live nearby.
If you can't join us, here are some other things you can do:
"School lunch isn’t just about the food. It’s also about what food means in culture and communities. A good school lunch program teaches kids that food matters—how it’s produced, what gets done with it, and how it is consumed. These are important lessons that ought to be in every curriculum. "
Marion Nestle, PhD
Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
New York University, Steinhart School
BROOKSIDE - The Community Farmers Market at Brookside (KCMO) - for Market Day (SATURDAYS)
Greetings Market Friends,
Despite the lovely autumn weather, summer is still here and our vendors have the produce to prove it!
The weather looks to be perfect this Saturday , so throw on a jacket (!!) and join us. For dandy recipes and tips on cooking, eating and preserving green beans, visit Missouri Extension at the community tent.
Happy eating!
From our vendors:
Bread of Life
Hi Brookside friends,
We had a very busy week moving Grandma Ruth to the farm. She has not lived on a farm since she was 12 and I think she will miss the city quite a bit but Josiah and Luke plan on keeping her busy and amused with all of their antics. One thing for sure it is never dull around here, so Grandma will be at least occupied with our happenings.
Our burritos this week will have Josiahs' eggs,potatoes,squash
onions,swiss chard and farm fresh eggs. Our meat burritos will have Benedict Builders sausage added to them. Quiches,muffins,breads,
Will, enjoy the day and come by and see us,
Luke,Chris and Kathy
News from KCCUA
Thanks for all the great comments last week about the farm’s stand! I agree, the colors out there now are the best of the season. Sometimes as I harvest---especially the ripe sweet peppers---I am overcome with awe. Where did those intense colors come from?!!! I’ve never seen red so red! The Islander peppers are really an eyeful…they start out pale lavender, take time to turn dark purple, then just when I want to pick it I notice a hit of yellow, leave it and the next time down the row it is swirls of yellow, orange, purple and red---mind-blowing!
So, this Saturday, you know we’ll bring along those deliciously RIPE SWEET PEPPERS and some equally eye-popping HOT PEPPERS. EGGPLANT from the straight ahead Italian varieties of Nadia and Black Beauty to the snow white, creamy and delicious Clara, the neon purple dancers and my new favorite the Louisiana Long Green. No peeling needed ---one of the nice things about ORGANIC produce---so no waste! Just slice and grill or quarter and bake! OKRA is not just for cooking anymore…have you tried it raw? I’m munching them as I write this email. Really. TOMATOES will fill a couple of tables, but come early! We still have many varieties, just not many of each variety. The cherry tomatoes are tasting very sweet from this cool, wet weather! If you need to bake a birthday cake or want cupcakes for an after school treat, you might pick up a SUMMER SQUASH. We’ve been indulging in many baked goodies because of all the squash and with good excuse. CUCUMBERS for lunch box snacks.
WINTER SQUASH is just coming on. Ya! LEEKS, SCALLIONS, ONIONS and GARLIC. Stock up on GARLIC! It’s a real deal and is going fast! We’ll bring a new crop of long, perfect FILET BEANS and festive TRI-COLOR BEANS as well as the last of the EDAMAME for a while. The RADISHES are full and crisp this week and mild enough to eat one after the other. CARROTS for your daily dose of beta carotene and BABY BEETS to clean your blood. Anyone for POTATOES? We’ll have Russian Fingerlings, many reds and some Desiree varieties. Perfect for a warm, one-pot dinner! We have many herbs including BASIL, LEMONGRASS, PARSLEY and ROSEMARY. Maybe it’s time to try MALABAR SPINACH to satisfy your taste for greens. We’ll have some micromix next week. PURSLANE is also a new one to try. And for the first time all season we’ll bring SQUASH BLOSSOMS for pretty and for stuffing!
We’ll be looking for you this Saturday. Can’t say whether you should wear rain boots, flip-flops or Uggs. Guess we’ll just wing that part of the day…makes life interesting!
Thanks for reading!
Alicia
Blue Door Farm
Sorry to say I will not be at market for a few weeks folks - the deer have wiped me out for now. Hope you enjoy the great produce from my fellow vendors. I'll put a shout out for the Red Noodle long beans that PayLay with the New Roots program had (and I hope still has!). I sauteed some up last week with garlic and red peppers and they were wonderful. Give them a try.
Laura
Bear Creek Farms
Unfortunately we'll not be at market this Saturday - again. So sorry, but this seems to be the summer of family crises. Guess that's what happens when you get older!
Enjoy what looks like a perfect Saturday! See you all next week!
Robbins and Jim
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BROOKSIDE MARKET'S VENDOR LINKS:
- Green Dirt Farm http://www.greendirtfarm.com/
- Bread of Life Organic Bakery http://www.BreadOfLifeBakery.net
- Wells Family Farms http://wellsfamilyfarms.com/
- Kansas City Community Farm/KCCUA http://www.KCCUA.org/
- Blue Door Farm http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M30772
- Bear Creek http://www.localharvest.org/csa/M239
under the white tents at theBorder Star Montessori School
63rd & Wornall, Kansas City, MO 64113
The Farmers' Community Market at Brookside is Dedicated toCreating a Unique Partnership between the Community andFarmers who provide High Quality, Local and Organic Productsin an atmosphere that is mutually beneficial, wholesome and fun.The Market also helps to support the Border Star PTA.
Troost Community Market - Linwood & Troost - KCMO - Saturdays 8:30am-NOON
The Troost Community Market
(the little market that could)
The Troost Community Market will have KC Buffalo Co. meat, So come to Linwood and Troost for your steaks.
There will also be lots of herbs to spice up the meats for the grill or the salad dressing and apple mint for making the best strawberry-banana smoothies for a healthy dessert. Robert will smoke up some buffalo brats and Claudia may serve her peppermint lemonade.
We also have a few other growers and vendors who join us from time to time.
We have also invited other KC Food Circle vendors to join us. We hope you will, too.
Join us to support the
Troost Community Market
in Facebook
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KC Organics and Natural Farmers Market - Saturdays in Minor Park
Reposted from the KC Food Circle calendar:
...this is an eMinder for
Saturdays 8am – 12:30pm
(Timezone: Central Time)
E 110th St & Red Bridge Road, Kansas City, MO (map)
KC Organics and Natural Farmers Market
“The Farmer’s Market in a Park”
Open Saturdays May 2nd through October 17th
8:00 am to 12:30 pm, in Minor Park
Go 1 mile South of I-435 on Holmes,then east on Red Bridge Road (111th St.)
- fresh-picked, locally grown organic produce
- also honey, edible flowers, herbs, mushrooms
- breads and baked goods, grains, sauces
- Free-Trade coffee and Eco-products
- free-range eggs and some meats
- soaps, body care products
- natural stoneware jewelry
A Unique Market Experience in all the Best Ways
On the Grass, Under the Trees, in Beautiful Minor Park―with hikeable trails, lots of acreage, and the Little Blue River
In partnership with Kansas City Missouri Parks and Recreation
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ALL-DAY Permaculture Tour - Lawrence, Kansas - KAW VALLEY AREA - on Sunday, Sep. 6, 2009
Please take note of the permaculture farm & garden tour.
Hi all: The Kaw Permaculture Collaborative and the Sustainability
Action Network is sponsoring a tour of permaculture operations on 6
September. Here's the info. And a flyer is attached that you can print
to use and distribute. Hope you can come -- Michael Almon
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*PERMACULTURE FARM & GARDEN TOUR ¤ KAW VALLEY AREA*
Sunday, *6 September 2009*, 9:00am-4:00pm
a guided tour of six sites in or near Lawrence
Sponsored by the Sustainability Action Network & the *Kaw Permaculture
Collaborative*, this will be a guided tour of six permaculture
operations, three urban, and three rural. Permaculture is a design
science by which we pattern our surroundings to harmonize with nature
rather than to subdue nature. The end result is a farm or garden that
is a *low-input, self-organizing, mature polyculture ecosystem*.
Tour schedule: follow the whole tour, or join at any given time
* 9:00am, 1311 Prairie Ave., Lawrence
* 10:00am, 1200 Almira Ave., Lawrence
* 11:00am, 517 Lake St., Lawrence
* 12:00pm, sack lunch at 517 Lake St.
* 1:00pm, 1480 N. 1700 Rd. (North St.), just outside City limits
* 2:00pm, 1840 E. 1450 Rd, (US Hwy 59), 1/3 mile north of Teepee Jct.
* 3:00pm, 14370 54th St., Oskaloosa, 1/3 mile east of US Hwy 59
For more info call (785)863-4102 or (785)832-1300, or visit
http://kawpermaculture.
Troostwood Youth Garden Market - FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS - 52nd & Paseo
Basic Info:
| Description: | 5142 Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri 64110 Friday nights, 5 pm to 8pm and Saturdays, 8 am to 2 pm May 15 thru late October Organically grown vegetables and produce grown sustainably by neighborhood youth - a member of JJ Farms - one of a number of farmers' markets featured by the Kansas City Food Circle. |
Contact Info
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SEE ALSO:
Growing a healthy neighborhood
Troostwood Garden started as an activity for kids...
Funky Friday Farmers Market at BADSEED - FRIDAYS in the CROSSROADS
To me, it seems absurd that a group of our neighbors should so greatly fear a small, organic farm in a suburban backyard. They would sooner seek its demise than walk through its open gates to see it firsthand.
Amidst the worst economic times in recent memory, people fear for their jobs, for their homes, for their marriages, for their very way of living. So we should not be surprised when a long-time neighbor tells us that she fears she may have to move back into her second home if she cannot sell it due to our organic efforts.
Afraid of declining property values and an invasion from poorer black neighborhoods to the east, our politically powerful neighbors fingered us for troublemakers and demanded the city do something. The officials in the city issued us with numerous violations, despite our compliance with city codes, because they fear for their jobs.
How many of us stay in jobs we dislike for fear of losing health or retirement benefits?
To be free is to live without fear. I have lived in America for 27 years. I have visited Cuba, China, Europe, and Peru, and I find this definition of freedom to be the truest. And yet, I believe that Americans are less free than ever before. And we are more fearful than ever before.
We are fearful not because of the economy, not because of the value of our homes, not because of our jobs. We are fearful because we have lost the ability to control our own destinies. We have lost the ability to do for ourselves. For if we have the ability to feed ourselves, to build our own homes, to sew our own clothes and to mend our own wounds, what have we left to fear?
Answer: Natural disasters, and the government. These are my greatest fears.
So, on a brighter note, eat urban grown food while you still can! Come see the BADSEED Bandits this Friday from 4:30 - 9 PM and get some “illegally” grown goodies that won’t just fill your belly, they might even become addictive.
This Week, we’ve been caught RED-HANDED with the following items:
*Heirloom Tomatoes!!!! They won’t be here much longer. Get them before they’re gone for the season!
*Early Fall Arugula from the Herb’n Gardener!
*Late Summer Saute Mix with lemon sorrel, lime basil blossoms, & delicious sweet potato greens!
*Gourmet Potatoes, including French Fingerling and Purple Peruvian.
*Multicolored Sweet Peppers - Green, Red, Purple Bells, chocolate peppers, and stuffing peppers!!
*Heirloom Summer Squash & Zucchini – Costata Romanesca, French Scallop, Patty Pan, and other fantastic varieties.
*Russian Kale & Rainbow Chard– Brooke and I have been stuffing our mouths with tomatoes and forgot all about glorious greens; don’t miss these!
*Red Velvet Okra!!! – Never a more tender okra. Many of our customers eat this stuff raw!
*Orgasmic Eggplant – Long Japanese Eggplant, as well as beautiful Italian varieties that melt in the pan.
*Yard-Long Chinese Red Noodle Beans – You’ll regret buying any less than a pound.
*Sweet Savoy Cabbage & Red Cabbage – Fresh, tender and delicious!
*Hot Peppers from the fiery pits of hell, including the little devils themselves, Chinese Five Spice
*Onions, garlic, and other flavor bursting must-haves!!!
Also, heavenly GOAT CHEESE from Goatsbeard Farm including Greek Feta that will blow your mind, not to mention free-range eggs, bread, and baked goods from Bread of Life Bakery and organic, fair-trade coffee from Puddin' Head.
So cast your fears aside, leave your inhibitions in the minivan, and come on down to the Crossroads for a Funky Friday Night of Food and Fun with all the BADSEED Farmers.
Thanks for listening! We’ll see you soon.
Farmer Dan
BADSEED Farm –
“Vegetables so good they’ll soon be outlawed in Kansas City, Missouri”
P.S. To learn more about our troubles check out the cover story in this week's INK Magazine. They really got our goat.....(haha)
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Celebrating Local Food, Culture, and Community
See you this Friday from 4:30 to 9 PM
BADSEED FARM
ROOT DEEP URBAN FARM
HERB'N GARDENER
PLATTE PRAIRIE FARMS
BREAD OF LIFE ORGANIC BAKERY
GOATSBEARD FARM
PUDDN' HEAD COFFEE
CURIOUS CANINE (link pending)
Mission Farms Farmers' Market - THURSDAYS - 4:00-8:30pm
MISSION FARMS (ORGANIC) FARMERS MARKET
THURSDAYS
Come introduce yourself and get to know our localfarmers with their fresh organically-grown produce, free-range meats, fruits and other locally grown products. The market is open every Thursday on the east end of the Mission Farms parking lot. Join in the fun.
GROWERS & VENDORS 2009
Robert Jones | produce, sprouts, wheatgrass | |
Cherie Schenker | beef, pork, lamb, honey, brats | |
Nancy Gordon | soap, body care, greens, produce | |
Kathy Crowther | bread, produce, cane juice, | |
Rick Newson | eggs | |
Tammy Crandell | produce, herbs, sweet corn, eggs | |
Denise and Dan May | produce | |
Kay Peoples | Kay Peoples | organic dog treats |
Pete | vegetable, fruits, meat, grains |
Robbins Hail | vegetable produce, eggs | |