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KC Organics @ Park Place (Leawood, KS) - Wednesdays 10am-2pm

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KC Organics
Farmer's Market
@ Park Place

Wednesdays - 10am to 2pm

August 5, 2009 – October 14, 2009

117th & Nall, Leawood, KS

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.com

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See also:
http://www.kcfoodcircle.org/calendar/
and
http://www.kcfoodcircle.org/markets/


39th Street Community Farmers Market - Wednesdays 4:30-7:30pm

Attention Eaters of Good Food,

The onset of October calls for a full pantry and something hot in the oven.

Stock up this Wednesday at the
Community Farmers' Market

at 39th and Genessee
from 4:30-7:30 pm


Only 2 weeks left in the Wednesday market season!


Greens (blanch and freeze)
Potatoes (store in the dark)
Garlic (keep dry)
Onions (cool and dry)
Hot Peppers (can em or freeze em)
Sweet Peppers (pickle or freeze)
Hard Squash (leave out, but turn periodically)
Zucchini (freeze)
Eggs (fridge)
Honey (in your pants (Just kidding, unless you're into that.))
Frozen Beef (keep frozen and eat within a year)
Beef Jerky (back pocket in a Skoal tin)
Tomato (can it)

There will be lots more to feed your needs at the market on Wednesday, so drop in and support local agriCulture!

www.39thstreetmarket.com

p.s. If you bring in a cloth or other reusable bag (leather? burlap?) for produce, you can get a ticket from me (Dave) at the market tent (by the coffee shop) or my daughter (Felicity). This Reuse Reward Raffle ticket entitles you to a monthly drawing for a basket of market goodies from our vendors. Don't forget to come by and show me your stylish vegetable apparel for a chance to win free stuff.

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Get some green and stay healthy!

39th St. Community Market
39th and Genessee, Kansas City, Missouri {MAP}
Wednesdays, 4:30-7:30 pm, May 6th - Oct. 7th 2009

www.39thStreetMarket.com
The 39th Street Community Market is conveniently located near KU Medical Center in the 39th Street shopping area. Stop by after work and talk with your local farmers. Organic and sustainably grown vegetables and fruit, free range meat and other goodies are available. If you live in the neighborhood, stroll on over and bring your kids! Regular music events and children's activities are also scheduled.

Call 913-432-4101 for specific dates, or check on our web site.

39thStreetMarket



Tell the FDA that America’s Children Aren’t For $ale

Big food corporations are calling these products "smart choices"

Tell the FDA and USDA to end this kind of deceptive labeling today!

Ever get the feeling that multinational food corporations are just trying to sell you a bunch of junk in a pretty package? Well, the new Smart Choices® Program proves that hunch to be true.

Recently, an alliance of over a dozen giant food conglomerates and some industry “experts” came up with a new nutrition labeling program meant to help consumers make “smarter food and beverage choices.”1 You might be surprised what they define as a “Smart Choice”: products like Froot Loops®, Keebler Cookie Crunch® and Lucky Charms®.

Are they serious? In an age when childhood obesity and type II diabetes has become an epidemic, labeling sugar cereals as smart choices is unacceptable. Please join us in telling the FDA and USDA to investigate the Smart Choices® Program and put an end to deceptive labeling.

Tell the FDA that America’s Children Aren’t For $ale

http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/39?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

The new Smart Choices® label, a large, bright green checkmark, is starting to appear on packages of processed food across the country thanks to the help of major corporations like ConAgra, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Kraft, PepsiCo, Tyson Foods and Unilever.2 For only $100,000, a company can join the Smart Choices® program3 and “recommend” products that contain as much as 44% sugar to your children.4

This new label is a sign of everything that is wrong with food industry driven labeling programs.

According to Michael Jacobson, the executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the criteria for the new “smarter food” label is so low that: “You could start out with some sawdust, add calcium or Vitamin A and meet the criteria.”5

Jacobson, who was on the original panel of experts that worked to create the nutritional standards for the Smart Choices® program, resigned last September in disgust because the results were so far in favor of the industry.

Thankfully, the FDA and USDA have taken notice. The agencies sent a joint letter saying they would “be concerned if any FOP (front of package) labeling systems…had the effect of encouraging consumers to choose highly processed foods…”6 The letter is a good start, but TheFDA and USDA need to do more. The Smart Choices program will encourage bad food choices if it's allowed to proceed. And the FDA and USDA have the ability to stop it.

Please sign this petition now and tell the FDA and the USDA that Froot Loops® is NOT a Smart Choice for our children.

http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/39?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

Thanks for all you do,

Food Democracy Now! Team

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Help support our work: If you'd like to see Food Democracy Now!'s grassroots work continue, please consider donating as little as $10 or $25. We appreciate your support! http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/25?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

Sources:

1. Smart Choices® Program: Helping Guide Smart Food and Beverage Choices http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/33?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

2. Smart Choices® Program: Helping Guide Smart Food and Beverage Choices – Participating Companies http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/34?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

3. For Your Health, Froot Loops®
http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/35?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

4. Smart Choices: 44% sugar calories!
http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/36?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

5. For Your Health, Froot Loops®
http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/35?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

6. Froot Loops® Unfortunate Mascot for Smart Choices Program
http://fdn.actionkit.com/go/37?akid=23.38170.vn3LK-&t=1

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CALL FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING and ACTION - Meeting at the BADSEED Farmers Market (1909 McGee) Tuesday evening, OCTOBER 20th, 2009


Subject: Support Urban Food Production in Kansas City!!

Come to BADSEED MARKET, Tuesday, October 20, 6:00-7:30 pm, to discuss proposing City Code changes that will benefit Urban Agriculture.


(message from Katherine Kelly of the KCCUA below).....

Hello, all. Most of you have probably heard about the zoning/codes issues that were raised in relationship to BADSEED Farm. Their situation is settled, for the moment; they can continue operations, the codes inspection division no longer has any possible violations pending with them. There were two issues though that were raised that don't bode well for other urban farms -- because they are farming on a lot with a residence, the farm is considered to be a home based business, and therefore Dan and Brooke (or other urban farmers) can't have employees, volunteers, trainees, or anyone helping at the farm. Also, no CSA members can come to the farm and pick-up their vegetables, as this is "conducting retail business" on-site, and that isn't allowed in a residential neighborhood. BADSEED can live with this through the rest of the season, but both of those restrictions really work against the benefits and dynamics we are all trying to create with locating farms in city neighborhoods.

Because of the situation with BADSEED, it has become clear that codes restrictions like these would benefit from some adjustments on the question of urban gardens and farms.

In our meetings with the Urban Planning and Development staff, and with various city council people, they expressed a willingness to work with us to develop codes that more accurately fit the ways that urban food production is developing in Kansas City, MO. They are in a review period looking at the revised codes, so the timing is good for refinements.

The Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture, BADSEED Farm, and the Food Policy Coalition for Greater Kansas City are organizing a meeting of any interested community members who would like to have input into this process.

You are invited to attend on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 6:00-7:30 PM, at the BADSEED Market at 1909 McGee, Kansas City, MO.

The goals of the meeting are:
  • To look at existing codes that impact urban agriculture;
  • To brainstorm about changes that might be useful and supportive of the benefits of urban agriculture;
  • To put together a volunteer committee of Kansas City, MO residents to lead the codes revisions process. This committee would work with KCCUA, the Food Policy Coalition, and city staff to research possibilities, prioritize, draft, and build political support for more urban ag applicable codes; and
  • Start a process that other municipalities in the metro area can use as inspiration and as a model for creating more urban ag friendly cities.
At the meeting, we will have KCMO Councilwoman Beth Gottstein, Patty Knoll from the Planning and Development Department of the City, and possibly other City representatives.

The issues which could be addressed through a codes revision process include:
  • Types of agriculture: community gardens, educational gardens/farms, commercial farms, hand intensive, tillers/tractors, etc.
  • Light manufacturing/processing (e.g. canning facility, fruit processing, dehydration, etc.)
  • Employees, volunteers, trainees
  • On-site sales
  • High tunnels/greenhouses/ other structures
  • Livestock: set-backs, numbers allowed, types of livestock, etc.
There are likely to be other issues as well, which is why we especially want those of you who are either currently engaged in or who are considering getting involved in urban agriculture to attend. The models for how we do urban food production in the Kansas City metro area are rapidly evolving; we need to think not only about what we are seeing now, but what we might see in five years, in ten years, or further down the road.

*** PLEASE RSVP! We want to have some idea of how many folks to expect. And, if you can, bring a folding chair, BADSEED will have some on hand, but depending on the numbers, we may need more.

If you have any questions about this, you can contact:
We're excited about entering into this process and look forward to working with the city to help promote good food production Kansas City, MO and to be what we hope is the first of many cities in our area looking at the benefits of urban food production.

Best regards,

Season Burnett
Director, Kansas City CSA Coalition
csac.kc (@) gmail.com
816-237-8634

Join the conversation!
The KCCSAC is on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=142593107596)
and Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/group/kc-csac)!

Troostwood Youth Garden Market - SATURDAYS (KCMO)


Troostwood You

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

Website:

Location:

Kansas City, MO


SEE ALSO:owing a healthy neighborhood

Troostwood Garden started as an activity for kids...



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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

Farmers Market - KC Organics (Minor Park - KCMO)


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

www.kcorganics.com


In partnership with Kansas City Missouri Parks and Recreation
More event details»




Troost Community Market - Linwood & Troost - KCMO - Saturdays 8:30am-NOON

TROOST MARKET HAS CLOSED EARLY this season - Stay tuned for new location and plans for 2010

BROOKSIDE - The Community Farmers Market at Brookside (KCMO) - for Market Day (SATURDAY)


Greetings Market Friends!

The weather continues to amaze, the cool weather has brought tasty fall veggies and we'll have music by percussionist Dustin Mott. Sounds like a lovely Saturday to me - hope to see you all at market, toes-a-tappin'.

From our vendors:

Bread of Life Bakery

Hello Market Friends,

This has been a nice and cool week. Luke and Chris had a busy week keeping the lawns mowed for their lawn care business. School also fills up their time so Luke is staying out of trouble for the time being.

We will have organic fair trade coffee from Puddin Head available, along with scones, pumpkin muffins,cookies honey pecan rolls, breakfast burritos, meat and vegetarian,and Quiches.

We have our usual whole grain breads made with freshly ground organic whole grains so you get a good source of fiber and other nutrients such as selenium,potassium and magnesium. The refined flours are low in fiber and are still missing some nutrients and minerals since they only add back a few in the enriched flours. Whole grains are healthier and truly the staff of life.

Come by and see Luke and Chris,


KCCUA

It’s Spring again all over again, at least as it comes to our farm’s market offerings. We’ll bring items that we haven’t had since May including spinach, salad mix, arugula and microgreens. Our root crops have also benefitted from plenty of rain and cooler nights. Detroit Dark Red beets are better than ever. Baby turnips are back and are very cute. Carrots are yellow and outstanding when braised with your choice of decadent sauce (i.e. butter). Sweet potatoes are what I’ve been waiting for all season and we’ll gladly share some with you. Winter squash varieties are plentiful including butternut, my personal favorite, carnival and acorn. Summer is not quite over yet so we’ll have perfect zucchini and patty pan squash. If you haven’t taken the chance yet…folks who have tried the patty pan rave and claim it their favorite. September is the month of taking chances, you know. Our big and little red, ripe sweet peppers are great cooked or uncooked any way you look at it. Okra. Four letters say it all. Hot peppers need only three letters. H…O…T. Scallions and leeks. Green beans and cucumbers. Get your eggplant now as this cool weather does not agree with the plants. Tomatoes are holding on and the vines are producing big wonders. We’ll bring herbs of many kinds…lemongrass, basil, rosemary and sage to name just a couple. We’ll have other greens as well. Malabar spinach, which has sustained us through the summer and continues to be Katherine’s new favorite, and sweet potato greens. We’ll also have a few other treats like pea shoots, tomatillos and squash blossoms.

We’ll look for you on Saturday.
Thank you for stopping by our stand.

Alicia


Blue Door Farm

It was so good to see everyone last week, I'm going to try it again. The raab is looking good (and has many more buds than last week), the turnips are tasty and the radishes look entirely too colorful and cheerful. I'll also have more sweet peppers, herbs and kale.

Happy Saturday!

- Laura



BROOKSIDE MARKET'S VENDOR LINKS:

http://www.farmerscommunitymarket.com/images/market_logo.gif


Saturdays, 8am to 1pm
under the white tents at theBorder Star Montessori School
63rd & Wornall, Kansas City, MO 64113

The Farmers' Community Market at Brookside is Dedicated to Creating a Unique Partnership between the Community and Farmers who provide High Quality, Local and Organic Products in an atmosphere that is mutually beneficial, wholesome and fun.The Market also helps to support the Border Star PTA.



The Healing Foods Kitchen at KU Medical Center - OCTOBER CALENDAR


The Healing Foods Kitchen at KU Medical Center The October calendar for the Healing Foods Kitchen is now out. Come learn how to make delicious foods using seasonal ingredients.


Check out this link for the details:http://integrativemed.kumc.edu/nutrition_classes_calendar.htm



Source: integrativemed.kumc.edu
Web site for the Program in Integrative Medicine, program that promotes a healing environment to patients using science-based orthomolecular and nutritional medicine at University of Kansas Medical Center.



Raw Food Meetup - Thriving in the 21st Century - Thursday, October 9th, 2009 - Unity Temple


Viktoras Kulvinskas, "The Father of Living Foods" will be in Kansas City on October 9th, Unity Temple on the Plaza for a three hour talk and Q&A if there is enough interest from YOU.

Viktoras will take the stage beginning at 7pm and highlight, "Thriving in the 21st Century." Over 30 years ago yet timeless, Viktoras wrote a groundbreaking book called, Survival into the 21st Century: Planetary Healers Manual.

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Viktoras Kulvinskas


Born in Lithuania, during World War II, under a Piscean sky, he received his M.S. Degree in pure mathematics from the University of Connecticut, where he later taught mathematics. For six years he was computer consultant for Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the Apollo Project, etc. He is a member of the Physics honor society Sigma Pi Sigma. He also co-founded, with Dr. Ann Wigmore, the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, where he was the Director of Research. As a nutritionist, he was the personal health consultant to comedian/activist Dick Gregory during his 900 mile run for peace.

Viktoras is the author of five books, and has contributed articles to many New Age journals, among them, Vegetarian Voice, Vegetarian Times, Vegetarian World, Health Street Journal, and Alternatives. Besides his best seller Survival In the 21st Century, he has authored Sprout for the Love of Everybody,Love Your Body, New Age Directory, Life Extension Recipes and Program, Life in the 21st Century, and Don't Dine Without Enzymes. This year he will be releasing three new books.

Viktoras travels extensively, and has given seminars for the World Symposium on Humanity in Canada and Australia. He has lectured for over 10,000 hours at such events as the New Earth Exposition, the Whole Earth Festival, the World Vegetarian Congress, the Cancer Victims and Friends Convention, theNational Health Federation Convention, and others.


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The Kansas City Raw Food Meetup has a Group mailing list.

You can visit the Raw KC Meetup Group here:



Troostwood Youth Garden Market - FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS - 52nd & Paseo


Troostwood You

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

Website:

Location:

Kansas City, MO


SEE ALSO:owing a healthy neighborhood

Troostwood Garden started as an activity for kids...



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funky Friday Farmers Market at BADSEED - FRIDAYS in the CROSSROADS


Friends,

Some of you may have been present at market a few weeks ago some close friends performed The Ballad of Brooke and Dan. The video that came out of that performance is now available to THE WORLD. Check out the following links for your personal entertainment:

The Ballad of Brooke and Dan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3zgaF5kEic

The Lyrics.
http://www.fairsharefarm.com/info/pdf/The%20Ballad%20of%20Brooke%20and%20Dan%20handout.pdf

The Story.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/neighborhood/southland/story/1418209.html

Thanks to our lovely friends who made this possible!


Two of our lovely chickens have just laid their first EGGS! Talk about yolks. I think these girls have been eating too much Swiss chard; those yolks were burnt orange and tasted amazing. Unfortunately, these girls will only lay for our private consumption. But we are very proud parents! Everyone should keep their own chickens! Hopefully someday soon you can - LEGALLY.

Fall is setting in, and our appetites and habits are changing (consciously or not). We notice when we see tomatoes left on the market table toward the end of summer. With fall officially here, many farmers markets are slowing down. Don't forget about us!

In the warmth of the
BADSEED, we'll continue to have an abundance of organic delights. It's HARVEST SEASON, which represents the best produce from both the summer and fall. And as other markets close, we'll be adding more vendors to beef up the BADSEED Winter Market. Come see us this week and fill your mouth with the following:

Heirloom WINTER Squash (already sold out of Black Futsus)
alert-level Turk's Turban, sweeter than Pie Pumpkins, GIANT JAPANESE PINK BANANA,
succulent Sweet Dumplings, hippy-loving ACORN, fun-filled Spaghetti Squash, and Butternuts baby!

Loads of Sweet PEPPERS, Red, Purple, Green!!
Young and Tender ARUGULA from Lew, the Herb'n Gardener
Yard-Long Chinese Red Noodle Beans
Brooke's famous herbed Saute Mix
Tender Tuscan, Winterbor, and Russian Kale
HOT HOT HOT Peppers!
Sweeter than Spinach SWEET POTATO GREENS
Snoody French Filet Beans from Lew
Orgasmic Eggplants from Outer Space
Red Velvet Okra!
Superb Salad Mix from that Herb'n Gardener again
Onions and Garlic
zinniaZzZ

And, of course, let us not forget that we will have EGGS, BREAD and SWEETS from Bread of Life Bakery, and coffee from Puddin' Head.

We'll see you Friday!!


Farmer Dan


...check out this cover story in INK Magazine.* They really got our goat.....(haha) and check out our updates on Facebook (linked below).

* Overcoming Kansas City's eco-hurdles (KC INK Magazine)

... businesses. Salvaggio said she and Heryer, who own the Badseed Farmers Market in the Crossroads Arts District, weren’t aware of the ...

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BADSEED
An Urban-Organic Farm & Market
Celebrating Local Food, Culture, and Community

1909 McGee*KCMO*64108

See you this Friday from 4:30 to 9 PM

Mission Farms Farmers' Market - THURSDAYS - 4:00-8:30pm


Help us finish the regular market season, strong...

YES, WE'LL HAVE
FREE-RANGE EGGS TODAY!
$4 per dozen


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




Little Muddy Farm

Robert Jones

produce, sprouts, wheatgrass




SchenkerFamilyFarms

Cherie Schenker

beef, pork, lamb, honey, brats




Pearly Gates Organic Soap

Nancy Gordon

soap, body care, greens, produce




Bread of Life Bakery

Kathy Crowther

bread, produce, cane juice,




Camp Creek Farms

Rick Newson

eggs




Foxfire Farm

Tammy Crandell

produce, herbs, sweet corn, eggs




The Organic Way

Denise and Dan May

produce




Kay Peoples

Kay Peoples

organic dog treats




Gasper FamilyFarms

Pete

vegetable, fruits, meat, grains

Bear Creek Farms

Robbins Hail

vegetable produce, eggs