I also have sets of photos separated out by farms, as follows:
Crosslines Community Outreach Garden
Hun’s Garden
Blue Door
Kurlbaum’s
Natural Grown
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Urban farming is growing fast in recession I don’t usually write a fundraising appeal in the middle of the summer–we’re too busy on the farm. But this year is different. More people than ever before are asking for KCCUA’s help in starting new urban farms and gardens. To meet these needs, we’ve [...] Farmers pass on more to their children than their name. They pass on their cultural legacy, in the form of agricultural tradition. Their greatest fortune is the soil they cultivate. By helping their children till this soil and plant seeds, farmers pass along the tips and tricks that their ancestors had left to them. Years later, their children inherit [...] There are as many different types of consumers of local food as there are different types of urban farmers and different types of food grown. Consumers with different needs can all benefit from urban farming. Three farms on the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture farm tour explain this perfectly. Kurlbaum’s Heirloom Tomatoes, J-14 Agricultural Enterprises and the Troostwood Youth [...] We constantly hear that youth are our future, but what will that future look like with the ever-increasing disconnect between our food and ourselves? A number of local, urban farmers are fighting that future, by providing youth an opportunity to relearn our food. During the summer you’ll find youth working the fields, rows, and greenhouse at J-14 [...] Reconnect with the Land… My grandparents were in their 20s when FDR asked them and the rest of the nation to pick up the food slack through Victory Gardens. WWII had started, and while our troops received the fruits of our commercial farms, my grandparents and their peers were at home, learning the ways of self-sustainability and conservation as they [...] Listen to Bruce and Maureen Branstetter from Drumm Farm discuss what visitors to their farm should expect during the KC Urban Farms and Garden Tour on June 28, 2009. Drumm Farm in Independence, Mo., is home to foster children and a 2- to 3-acre farm. The farm sells its produce for 29 weeks, from mid-April to mid-October, [...] The four of us went to Kansas City to see exactly who KCCUA’s customers are and what and how they think about food. We interviewed eight people on the streets of Kansas City and found that most of them care where their food comes from and think eating locally grown food is important. However, some [...] Victory gardens are going back in style, and it’s children who are gaining from their revival. “I show the kids — here’s a beet, here’s how you pick it, here’s what it tastes like,” says Maureen Branstetter, farmer at Drumm Farm.
What is a Victory Garden? A Victory Garden is a kitchen garden planted to relieve food shortages. Victory gardens were very commonplace during World War II. World War II began in September 1939 and by January 1940 the United States began rationing food. The government asked people to plant gardens to support [...] |
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