Platte Prairie Farms - 2008 Season

Platte Prairie Farms Sites and Methods (June-October)

(NOTE: all listed crop/produce items will be on-hand
when available, in-season...
weather & varmint predation permitting.)

Summer squash, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, beets, green beans, cucumbers, lettuce, greens spinach, chard, pak choy, onions, winter squash, peas, peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes popcorn, eggplant, melons, sweet corn, tomatoes, sprouts, wheatgrass,

Apples, peaches, strawberries, raspberries, flowers, herbs, bamboo

Growing practices:

 Plot 1
 5223 N Merrimac Ave, KCMO

2 acres - 10+ years soil building and no-till practice, using newspaper and recycled brown paper covered with 3" mulch on top. Planting in soil/compost in the mulch.

Cover crops: barley and oats. Crop rotation used.

Fertilizers Used
Alfalfa meal,
Soybean meal,
Composted horse manure
Cotton bur compost
Mushroom compost
Zoodo compost
Bone meal
Fish emulsion
Planters II balanced and bioactive trace minerals,
Probiotic bacterial tea
Ash
Biodynamic Preperations
No synthetics

Pest control:
Soap spray,
Pyola,
Pyrethine,
Rotenone,
Companion planting
Biological control
Mechanical control (tangletrap)
Flame weeding

 

Plot 2
at Creek House Organic Community Garden
6310 N Waukomis, KCMO


1 acre Line Creek bottom - land not farmed for 30+ years - same No-Till Biodynamic methods.