Ten Days of Events and Activities: June 18-27 focusing on the amazing ways that food is being grown in city neighborhoods and the many benefits of urban food production.
Events include:
Thursday, June 18, 6-8PM—Food From the City…For the City KCMO Central Library: panel of urban farmers and gardeners highlight the variety of ways people grow food in the KC metro.
Saturday, June 20 – Mini Market Tours @ Farmers’ Markets
Tuesday, June 23 – Urban Foods Film Shorts @ All Souls UU Church
Wednesday June 24 – Eat Out Local Night.
Friday, June 26 – Urban Homesteading Class @ Bad Seed Market and “Funky Friday Night” Farmers Market, 4:30 – 9 PM
In honor of Kansas City’s Urban Farms & Gardens Tour, the BADSEED Farmers Market will be hosting a special Market for all you “urban homesteaders” and wannabes!! Along with the regular gang of urban growers and producers of “other worldly delights”, special guests will include KC’s FOOD NOT LAWNS:
Canning and Preserving Demos will take place in the BADSEED Kitchen from 6-7:30 PM.
Demos will include:
- Blanching and Freezing Greens
- Pickling
- Jams and Jellies
- Fermentation
Saturday, June 27 – Mini Market Tours @ Farmers’ Markets
Other planned events: Harvest Meal – Bread of Life Church, Children and Youth Programs at area libraries, Starting an Urban Farm Class, Starting Community Gardens Class, Architecture & Urban Agriculture & Planning Program
Urban Farms & Gardens Tour: Sunday, June 28, 11am-5pm
Shawnee, KS, to Independence, MO, and many points in between will welcome visitors to tour farms and gardens. Day of the tour fun: children’s activities, live music, art, °™Ask a Nutritionist°¨ and more! Different types of farms and gardens will be featured on the tour, including:
- Urban Farms… Feed the People- farms that grow food to feed others, selling direct to the community
- Educational and Charitable Gardens… Sow the Seeds- farms that teach youth and adults how to grow their own food or that grow food to donate to the hungry
- Community Gardens… Grow the Neighborhood- garden sites for the community
- Home Gardens & Urban Homesteads… Feed the Family- a more intensive approach to feeding family and friends
Buy tickets at Brown Paper Tickets! $5.00 per individual, $12.00 per family, Group rate for groups of 10 or more $3.00 each person.
I would love it if next year you would split the tour into maybe 3 weekends so that 1/3 of the farms on our tour each weekend (preferably by geographic area, rather than type). So this does NOT mean more time for the farmers – they’d each only be on tour once, but the tour-goers might go 1, 2 or 3 weekends if they really wanted to see all the farms. Seems like this would be a way to make more money, too. Maybe charge $5/individual/day or if you go to all 3 then it is $12/individual/3 days.
Seems like this would benefit everyone: more people would be able to see more farms, farmers would have more people coming to each farm, more money for your organization.
Emphasis: I do not mean each farmer should be on tour 3 times, just split the group into 3 different Saturdays. I suggested this to someone at the Local Food Expo and she seemed to think this would mean more time for the farmers and so I think she thought I meant the farmers would have to each have additional tours.
It’s going to be hard to pick and choose, and I hate missing any of them. Would be willing to pay extra to split tour into multiple dates. One week do the northland, one week do Kansas, etc.