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The Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture is an example of how one business can have a positive impact by supporting local farmers and providing fresh food and economic viability to the Kansas City community. Listen to co-founder Katherine Kelly and farm manager Alicia Ellingsworth explain the inner workings of urban farming by clicking on the link [...]
KCCUA is like the Thanksgiving table: a place where all Kansas City residents can come together There is nothing more American than Thanksgiving when Americans of all colors and religions gather around dinners symbolizing the first Thanksgiving. On that historic day, Pilgrims and Indians broke bread at the same rough-hewn table. The table, however, was not [...] In my first grade class, we were asked to make a poster of what we would wish for if we were granted three wishes. My list didn’t include ponies or mansions, but this: 1) I wish people would stop polluting the oceans. 2) I wish people would stop hunting animals for their fur. 3) I wish [...]
Katherine Kelly in the leafy greenhouse at KCCUA. Katherine chats with each customer at the spring transplant sale. From our perch on top of a stack of soggy hay bales, six-year-old Evangeline Ellingsworth and I can see the entirety of the farm that is her stomping ground. Beyond the curved hoophouses and still-barren fields, [...] “Poverty-borne problems can be best solved by people within the community where they are found.” The Cross-Lines organization was founded on this principle in 1963 and today provides many services to the community like emergency rent, clothing and food. Now it its third year, the community garden helps connect people with what they’re eating and supplement the food pantry. By providing fresh food and nutrition education to the public, Cross-Lines is helping to combat health issues associated with poverty. [...] |
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