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Squash Blossom Festival

Squash Blossom Coop Gathering
For more info :http://www.squashblossomkc.org/

Bliss Fest

  
 Come visit our booth at the Bliss Fest .
Cafe Gratitude Kansas City also holding a Gratitude Rampage
Saturday  July 25th
12:00 – 4:00
English Landing Park
Parkville, Missouri
http://www.meetup.com/rawkansascity/calendar/10353654/

Secrets of No-Till Gardeners

[ 2009/08/19; 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. 2009/08/26; 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ]  

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Secrets of No-Till Gardeners
Urban farmer Steve Mann, owner of Platte Prairie Farms will divulge the secrets of no till/minimal till growing methods.

No–Till as Carbon Sequestration method

No–Till Fall garden preparation

Replace Lawns with PermaScape

Lawn Eradication methods

Green roofs

Four Season gardening

 A founding member of Kansas Cities’ Food Not Lawns [...]

Platte Prairie Farms Fall CSA

Winter nutrition source
 

 
Nutritious Local vegetables don’t have to end with summer.  Platte Prairie Farms has been exploring fall/winter vegetable production and long storing crops like sweet potatoes, winter squash, beets, carrots,  rutabagas, turnips, spinach, kale, cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli and all those succulent greens for the past three years .Yea all the really good for [...]

Squash Blossom Festival

[ 2009/08/15; 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]  

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more info at  http://www.squashblossomkc.org/

Food Not Lawns Communiversity Class

[ 2009/06/17; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/06/24; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/07/01; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/07/08; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_367" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="former lawn now a vegetable garden"][/caption]

GROW FOOD NOT LAWNS

Attend the Communiversity Class on
FOOD NOT LAWNS

Increase local food security, improve your diet,
beautify your surroundings, build community, reduce
pollution and energy use. (It takes 87 calories of fuel to
transport one calorie of perishable fresh fruit from west
coast to east coast.) Several supporters of the
emerging [...]

Parkville Farmers Market

[ 2009/06/10; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 2009/06/17; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 2009/06/24; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 2009/07/01; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 2009/07/08; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 2009/07/15; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 2009/07/22; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 2009/07/29; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ]

Wednesday market will start on June 10th, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Parkville Farmers Market will offer plants, spring vegetables and a variety of jams, jellies, bread, coffee, honey, meat, etc., and a lot of friendly vendors ready to serve you. The variety will change as the harvesting of crops turn through the spring, summer [...]

BadSeed Farmers Market

[ 2009/05/01; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/05/08; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/05/15; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/05/22; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/05/29; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/06/05 4:30 pm to 2009/06/06 9:00 pm. 2009/06/12; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/06/19; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/06/26; 4:30 pm to 9:30 pm. 2009/07/10; 4:30 pm to 10:30 pm. 2009/07/17; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/07/24; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/07/31; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/08/07; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/08/14; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/10/09; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/10/16; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/10/23; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. 2009/10/30; 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_226" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Its happening at BadSeed"][/caption]
BadSeed Farmers Market
1909 McGee, Kansas City Mo
In the Crossroads Art District
First Friday’s Street Party with Music and Art
Starting May 1st  Every Friday
4:30 – 9:00 PM
I will be selling greens, sweet potatoes, bamboo  plants, bamboo canes for pole bean trellises, kamut grass flats and shots.

 
Stock up the pantry with [...]