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Cultivating Kansas City: Food from the City, For the City The Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture (KCCUA) presents the kick-off event for the 2009 Kansas City Urban Farms & Gardens Tour. The theme for this year’s tour is “Food from the City, For the City,” highlighting the amazing variety of ways that Kansas Citians are growing [...] Make a Batch of Body Butter for teens – Nancy, Noel & Nathasha Gordon, of Pearly Gates Soapery and Garden Nestled in the yard of a house on a busy street of downtown Kansas City, MO is the Troostwood Youth Garden. Ericka Wright started Troostwood in 1999 with help from neighboring Rockhurst University. Kids from the neighborhood do much of the work in the garden, growing, managing and selling vegetables A to Z. Troostwood has become an important in the community and one of the few places to get fresh vegetables in the area. Because the kids working there learn the value of hard work and dedication as well as an appreciation for where food comes from, Troostwood acts as an outdoor classroom. [...] Liz and Sky Kurlbaum, along with Liz’s sister Sally Kuklenski, have been selling heirloom tomatoes for 7 years to local Kansas City markets and fine dinning restaurants. Their goal is simple: try to grow and sell enough heirloom tomatoes each year to help put one of their family members through college. What exactly is an heirloom tomato? Read on. [...] Drumm Farm in Independence, Mo., isn’t just home to organic fruits and vegetables, it’s home to foster parents and children and a golf course, too. The hundreds of acres owned by the Andrew Drumm Institute used to all be a conventional farm, but now the farm here is only about three acres, “with the goal being to keep the home for the children,” says farmer Maureen Branstetter. Foster parents and children who live here can avail themselves to as much fresh produce as they’d like, and the children often work or volunteer on the farm themselves. [...] Blue Door Farm Though located in the bustling heart of Kansas City, Kansas, you can hear the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves that shelter Blue Door Farm. A long gravel road winds off of 55th Street to a quintessential country home, framed by shed and barn. The homemade greenhouse that is Blue [...] Driving down 17th Street in Kansas City, it’s easy to pass by Lew Edmister’s urban garden. Surrounded by an Lew Edmister unassuming, white picket fence, the garden melts into the urban landscape of brick buildings and residential homes. Yet it is on this modest piece of land that Edmister grows a bountiful array of vegetables, [...] In her native Thailand, where the weather stays warm all year long, Aye Aye Nu grew cucumbers, peppers, coconuts and bananas. Now, she must clear away rocks, pipes, wires and glass before growing lettuce, tomatoes and a sour Burmese sorrel called chaibong. She sells the produce at local farmers markets, but saves the chaibong for members of her [...] Root Deep Urban Farm is owned and operated by Sherri Harvel. With nearly twenty years of farming experience, Harvel has turned a dilapidated piece of property, in Kansas City Missouri, into a small and vibrant farm. You can find anything from naturally grown organic fruits and vegetables, to an array of spices. She showcases her produce at several farmers markets throughout the city and is in business from April through November. Harvel is a board member with the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture (KCCUA) and a member of the Kansas City Community Gardens. [...] Brooke and Dan Salvaggio are a young couple immersed in the world of urban agriculture. Brooke started Badseed in 2007 after traveling around Europe experiencing the different connections between the people, their land and their food. After marrying over the winter while farming in Italy, the young couple is now committed to providing a more than organic product, and value the deep community and personal relationship that comes from attaching a name and a face to the food they grow. [...] |
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