{"id":13165,"date":"2011-07-29T14:35:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T20:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13165"},"modified":"2011-07-29T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T20:35:51","slug":"urban-agriculture-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/urban-agriculture-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Agriculture in Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13166\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kansas-city-community-garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13166\" title=\"kansas city community garden\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kansas-city-community-garden.jpg\" alt=\"kansas city uban agriculture: salt of the earth program\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kansas-city-community-garden.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kansas-city-community-garden-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garderners in Kansas City&#39;s Salt of the Earth program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> This is the third post in our series on <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/urban-agriculture-success-stories\/\">the success of urban agriculture<\/a> across the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/urban-agriculture-chicago\/\">Chicago<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2011\/07\/community-gardens-omaha\/\">Omaha<\/a>, Kansas City has a historical association with the meat industry&#8230; and, yes, you can definitely still get a good steak there. But during growing season, there&#8217;s also a lot of fresh, local produce from which to choose&#8230; KC&#8217;s become another hotbed of urban agriculture, ranging from community gardens to non-profit education and community-oriented organizations to for-profit operations (probably small profit, but entrepreneurial nonetheless).<\/p>\n<p>Among the elements that contribute to Kansas City&#8217;s success in building robust small-scale community-oriented agriculture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultivatekc.org\">Cultivate Kansas City<\/a> (formerly the <strong>Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture<\/strong>), yet another organization that&#8217;s taking leadership in urban food production (and which also owns the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultivatekc.org\/programs\/\">Gibbs Road Community Farm<\/a>, a two-acre model and demonstration farm).<\/li>\n<li>The biannual <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanfarmstourkc.com\/\">Kansas City Urban Farms &amp; Garden Tour<\/a>, which appears to be a misnomer at this point: the event not only allows visitors the check out urban agricultural sites within the city (38 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultivatekc.org\/file_download\/5fa745e3-73cd-40e6-9225-aef861845275\">this year&#8217;s tour<\/a>), but also leads up to tour weekend with films, workshops, and dining experiences.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/theurbanfarmingguys.com\">Urban Farming Guys<\/a>, an ongoing experiment in urban renewal and self-sufficiency (that&#8217;s received quite a bit of attention: check out <a href=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkbetter.com\/2011\/06\/09\/can-urban-farming-save-the-world\/\">Eat.Drink.Better<\/a>&#8216;s,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2011\/03\/20-families-leave-suburbia.php\">Treehugger<\/a>&#8216;s and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplepundit.com\/2011\/03\/urban-farming-guys-kansas-city\/\">Triplepundit<\/a>&#8216;s coverage). Billed as twenty families that moved from the suburbs into one of Kansas City&#8217;s most distressed urban neighborhoods, this project not only involves growing produce, but also small-scale fish farming, infrastructure (re)development, and serving at-risk youth. Do-gooders? Definitely&#8230; but do-gooders with a plan and a hell of a work ethic. And they&#8217;re documenting their experiences on a video blog.<\/li>\n<li>A new city ordinance that allows for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanfarmonline.com\/urban-farm-news\/2010\/06\/22\/kansas-city-urban-farming.aspx\">sale of produce from home-based gardens<\/a> (that&#8217;s a bit controversial, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityfarmer.info\/2010\/06\/02\/kansas-city-agrees-on-urban-farm-rules-upsetting-some\/\">a number of reasons<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>And, of course, a lot of other gardens, plots and other growing spaces&#8230; take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americasheartland.org\">America&#8217;s Heartland<\/a> overview of some of these KC efforts:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Urban Agriculture&#039;s Importance in Kansas City, Kansas - America&#039;s Heartland\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mA8Yd_CYe7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As in Chicago, we&#8217;ve got friends of sustainablog in the metro Kansas City area&#8230; so let us know what we missed in this brief overview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last (but not least):<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/urban-farming-baltimore\/\">Baltimore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This is the third post in our series on the success of urban agriculture across the United States. 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