Platte Prairie Farms - EcoSystems Management

Bio-Ecstatic Foods
Just what are Bio-Ecstatic foods? Think of the wonderful experience of eating the first ripe strawberry, juicy peach or ripe tomato of the season. All your senses are heightened. Feeling the warm peach fuzz, the tenderness of a ripe tomato, a plump berry. These food memories are unforgettable. Seeing and feeling the colors. You [...]

 Platte Prairie Farms - EcoSystems Management

 
2010 CSA Program
Summer CSA   June 5th – October 30th                      
Full Share           500.00
Half Share          250.00
Individual           220.00
 
Signup starting January 11, 2010
 
Early birds get to pick the colors…more on that in a future post.
 
Fall CSA   November 6th   – Dec 23
 
In Your Yard CSA’s designed during January, February and March. Sign up today.
Call Steve @ 816 [...]

 
Cold Frame Spinach Shack
It’s not too late to get your own Spinach Shack.  If you are blessed with a south facing spot on your lot we may be able to build a custom passive solar Quarter Sky Tunnel or Cold Frame Spinach Shack for you.
Don’t worry about that lawn we’ll eradicate it. We [...]

Quarter Sky Tunnel Spinach Shack
I love the crisp thick green leaves of winter spinach. The arugula, beets, kale and carrots are just a bonus.  I’ve been growing my own in a cold frame on the South side of my garage for the last two years. My home shelters the bed and created a micro climate that [...]

Ruby

 She sits so contently in our Paradise Garden basking in the warm fall sun. Her luxuriant green locks cascade to the sides.  That’s my Ruby Rutabaga. She’s adorned by a string of ripening cherry tomatoes. They look so good on you Ruby. Ruby’s proud of her Swedish heritage and doesn’t mind being called a [...]

 If you understand what real food tastes like, food grown with love and devotion then come share a bunch of Red Russian Kale or spicy white Shogan turnips. Ah yes Purple Kohlrabi woooooh. Visit with Rudy Rutabaga, Lumpy’s cousin.  Or I guess you can go to Mc Dungals.

 Platte Prairie Farms at BadSeed Farmers Market 1909 McGee [...]

Red worms creating humus from horse manure
The most valuable workers on my farm are the red worms in my compost pile. They are giving me wealth beyond compare. They change the organic materials in the compost to humus.  Humus is the most valuable substance on Earth.
Humus is a dark colored and fairly stable soil organic [...]

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

  
 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/

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 [...]