The Kansas City Food Circle maintains a directory of CSA farms in northeastern Kansas & Northwestern Missouri. The organization’s motto is Connecting Kansas City with Local Organic and Free-Range Farmers.
Kansas City
Cultivate Kansas City
Cultivate Kansas City is a locally-grown nonprofit working to grow food, farms, and community in support of a sustainable and healthy local food system for all
https://www.cultivatekc.org/
New Roots For Refugees [16 Families!]
100 Richmond Avenue
913.906.8930
https://newrootsforrefugees.org/
Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance [10 member farms]
913.484.4753 (Claire Zimmerman of CEZ Farm)
Deliveries to 4 sites: in Kansas City, two in Lawrence & Topeka
https://www.rollingprairiecsa.com/
Lawrence (Douglas County)
Common Harvest CSA
Five farms [Moon in the Meadow (Jill Elmers); Buller Family Farm; The Red Tractor Farm (Jen Humphrey); Juniper Hill; Mellowfields Urban Farm (Kevin Prather & Jessi Asmussen)]
Delivery of CSA shares to KU Campus, in Lawrence & in Kansas City
www.commonharvestcsa.com
Perry (Jefferson County)
Sacred Sun Farm [Johannes Family]
13184 31st Street
785.424.4137
https://www.sacredsunfarm.co/
Sedgwick (Sedgwick County)
Serenity Farm [Brad & Tiffany Dilts]
3515 W. 125th Street N
316.772.9140
https://www.serenityfarmcsa.com/
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a growing movement in America, which has provided economic support and predictability to farmers, practicing traditional family farming, that they will be able to continue to farm, and that communities will be able to enjoy fresh, local farm products. Partnering with local farms by purchasing a “share” in the season’s harvest, consumers can know where their food is coming from and have the satisfaction of supporting local agriculture.
Participants, who purchase their shares early in the season, provide the farmer with a stable income, and in return they receive a weekly supply of fresh local farm products. This concept of Community Supported Agriculture was introduced into the United States in 1985 by Robyn Van En, who farmed in South Egremont, Massachusetts. She learned of the concept from a Swiss friend, Jan Vander Tuin, and within 4 years her farm’s original membership of 30 shares grew to 150.
Wilson College in Chambersberg, Pennsylvania has established the Robyn Van En Center in honor of Ms. Van En who died in 1997.
