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Platte Prairie Farms CSA

Using no-till, biodynamic methods to produce healthy, fresh fruits & vegetables


Platte Prairie Farms CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)
- Seasonal Details (June-October) 22 weeks

  SHARE SIZES & COST

  Full Family 7-9 items/ week:     

$500   See the CSA agreement for payment details.

Partial/Half 4 -6 items/ week   $250

Individual:  3-4 items/ week $225    

 (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,  flowers and herbs.

We have a fruit and berry add-in in partnership with FieldStone Orchard Overbrook Kansas. you pick  5 varities in season from the following list.

rubarb, strawberries,pie cherries, blackberries, raspberries, pluns, peaches, grapes, asian pears and appples. 


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
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.


In Your Yard CSA Gardens

Community Supporting Food production distributed throughout the North Land

CSA Agreement

CSA Planting and Harvesting Guide