The 2013 Urban Farms & Gardens Tour will be June 22 & 23, with events kicking off on Sunday, June 16.
We will begin planning meetings for the 2013 Tour in May of 2012. If you are interested in being part of this exciting event, please email farmstour@cultivatekc.org.
The Urban Farms & Gardens Tour is hosted by Cultivate Kansas City, a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating a city that grows and eats fresh, local, healthy food. The tour allows us to showcase all of the ways your neighbors are growing good food in our city. We hope to teach and inspire your peers, your friends, your family and YOU to get engaged. Whether you grow your own tomatoes, shop from urban farmers at the market every week, or volunteer on a local farm – you are helping create a Kansas City with farm in every neighborhood and access to fresh, local food. Check out photos from the 2011 Tour.
How it works: Get a ticket. Find some friends. Read up about the farms & gardens on our website. Decide which farms and gardens you want to visit. Drive, bike, or walk to them. Repeat. See what is growing in your neighborhood and in your city. Enjoy live music, cooking demonstrations, food vendors, and good people. Get inspired. GET YOUR GROW ON!
Plus, we will pack the week leading up to the tour with exciting and educational workshops, films, local food events, and children’s activities.
We’re excited about this tour- so much great activity is happening in the city around growing food. There are farms, gardens, roof-top gardens, school gardens, and community gardens, along with orchards, aquaponics, high tunnels and so much more popping up all over the place we can hardly keep up with it. We want the 2011 tour to share all this great activity with the public and inspire our city to get into the growing local food movement.
Check this site often for details and updates about the 2013 tour! And follow us on Twitter @KCFarmsTour and Facebook to join the fun as we gear up for the 2013 Urban Farms & Gardens Tour!
Download the 2011 Urban Farms & Gardens Tour booklet to print and take with you or read up on the sites on the “Tour Sites” tab on or website.
I am so excited to learn of this nearby farm – saw it often and wondered where one might get those vegies. I would like to have updates on the tour and workshops.
Thanks,
Ruth
Please keep me updated on this…I am FASCINATED!!!
We are beginning a small urban Gardening / Farming project fro our residents this year. everyone is excited to be growing fresh stuff in our own yard
Wow, I just finished going to the website for now. It was fun and exciting to visit each page and imagine the fun my family and I will have going to some of the tour events and the tour itself. I’ll also be printing off the promotional materials to give to others in our neighborhood and posting on the bulletin board at church.
I’ll be checking in again for updated information.
Coming from Denver for farm tour so our cities can learn from one another….
I just found out about this from Heather with Teeny Greeny. I am pretty new to the area and love finding new things to do. Especially when it is local farms, etc. My son is helping this year plant our garden and is excited to help.
Yippee!!! We enjoyed this event so much in ’09! Can’t wait. So pleased we will have TWO whole days to see the farms n gardens this year! We’ve cleared r calendar n positively cannot wait! Thank u so very much for making this possible. Really, thank u!!!!
Leanna and Maurice
Tried to buy 2 “early-bird” tickets online to the Garden Tour for June 25-26. $6.00 each. $1.20 service fee per ticket. I opted for the “Print Your Own” option which claimed there were no additional fees. But, the service charge was added nevertheless. Why have an early bird price if it is still charged a fee, and I am printing my own? Ditch the ticket service you are using.
I would like to be a volunter.
Anyone interested in volunteering should email joe@cultivatekc.org. We still have many spots to fill and he is organizing volunteers for the tour!
We researched many ticket options and all of them had some sort of service fee, regardless of whether you print your own ticket or have one mailed. This is the unfortunate cost of offering the convenience of online purchasing and having a third party handle the credit card transactions. If you wish to purchase tickets directly, you can come to the Brookside Farmers Market and look for the Cultivate Kansas City tent or buy them at any of the pre-tour events starting on the 15th. If you know of an alternative online service that is free, please email us at farmstour@cultivatekc.org and we will keep it in mind for next year.
Hi,
How do you set up garden tours and actually make a profit? I’d love to start something like this in Portland, Oregon.
Hi, Kansas City singer/songwriter REVO. It would be fun to play a 30 minute set at the Cook-Off. Here is one of my YouTube videos :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-p24FSaAc Thanks much
Would love to be involved in a community garden in the Overland Park area as I really now little about gardening and our yard is very small. Is there anything anyone knows of in OP? Would love to have fresh tomatoes and can’t even get those at Whole Foods except for the really pricey heirlooms. Would appreciate any info. anyone might have! THX
There was recently an article in the Johnson County Sun about the first community garden starting in Overland Park. Email ami@cultivatekc.org, and after the tour is over I will track down the information in that article for you. There are a few sites in Johnson County on the tour – check out the map to see who and where! They would be good people to connect with.