Cultivating Kansas City: Food from the City, For the CityThe Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture (KCCUA) presents the kick-off event for the 2009 Kansas City Urban Farms & Gardens Tour. The theme for this year’s tour is “Food from the City, For the City,” highlighting the amazing variety of ways that Kansas Citians are growing food to feed themselves and others. Check it out through the link above.
Growing food in the places where people live, work and shop is a phenomenon that has taken off, across the US and around the world. Michelle Obama has dug up the White House lawn for an organic garden. Milwaukee Urban Farmer Will Allen was awarded a McArthur Fellowship, also known as a “genius grant”, for his work promoting urban food production. “Hydroponic high rises” and “vertical farms” are ready to move off the drawing boards and into construction. City planners and urban developers are incorporating productive green space into new developments. More and more people are getting into home gardening, with a national increase of 40% in numbers of households growing their own vegetables over last year.
Growing food in the places where people live, work and shop is a phenomenon that has taken off, across the US and around the world. Michelle Obama has dug up the White House lawn for an organic garden. Milwaukee Urban Farmer Will Allen was awarded a McArthur Fellowship, also known as a “genius grant”, for his work promoting urban food production. “Hydroponic high rises” and “vertical farms” are ready to move off the drawing boards and into construction. City planners and urban developers are incorporating productive green space into new developments. More and more people are getting into home gardening, with a national increase of 40% in numbers of households growing their own vegetables over last year.
What does urban agriculture look like in Kansas City? Urban food production is growing like a weed! There are more than 35 urban farms growing food on 50 plus acres. There are some 70 community gardens and nearly 50 school-based gardens. More and more people are getting into home gardening; some are even finding ways to legally keep chickens and small livestock in town.
The Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture and the Public Library are bringing together some of Kansas City’s leading practitioners and visionaries to talk about Kansas City’s urban food production and how it is changing city neighborhoods and family diets for the better. They’ll offer a practical vision of a Kansas City that produces much of its own food from gardens and farms in and around the city and lay out some of the challenges and opportunities along the way.
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