Healthcare Foundation Video

Check out this video made by the Health Care Foundation about the Juniper Gardens Training Farm. They wanted to highlight KCCUA's good work. We're so thankful for their partnership.

Love from The Urban Homestead Experiment

Check out a blog update about our farmers at the OP farmers market here! Hannah and Kabibi are looking great!

Wrapping up a great week.

What a great week! Yesterday we found out that we will be a recepient of the USDA's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grant, which will keep us up and running for the next three years. This is great news. We're PUMPED!

Today, we had some fantastic volunteers and harvested tons of veggies! At the end of the day, our staff and farmers were thrilled. Check it out.

Also, come buy some of the tasty things we harvested out at the market tomorrow.

Three farmers will be at Overland Park and seven farmers will be at Brookside!

Juniper Gardens Farmers Market

The Official Grand Opening of the Juniper Gardens Farmers Market was two weeks ago, and it was fantastic. Through a Farmer's Market Promotion Program grant, we've been able to hire three folks from Juniper Gardens to promote the market. They are doing cooking demos, distributing door hangers, talking to churches and generally spreading the word. They are doing a great job! We're also running a bus route from refugee housing sites to the market. Watch the video below, which was shot just after the bus arrived full of Karen families- excited to buy from their friends, using their foodstamps that had been doubled at the market info booth! Thanks Beans and Greens!

Stop by next week!

Juniper Gardens Farmers Market

Every Monday 11:30-4:00pm

in the 3rd Street Church of God Parking Lot

3rd and Richmond, Kansas City, Kansas 66101

When customers use food stamps, they come to the market info booth and get tokens to spend with the farmers. At the end of the day, farmers come and cash in their tokens and get a check cut in their name. These farmers are happy counting their hard earned tokens.

Beets.

New roots beets., originally uploaded by danielle larson.

I've got this thing for beets.
Check out this variety that we're growing this year, Choggia Guardsmark. So beautiful! Come get some this weekend at the market!

This Week at Market.

This week at market, we welcomed a new member of the New Roots family. Ian and Whitney have been CSA members for the past two years, and now will bring Justus to the market!

We also saw the first of our hot summer veggies: squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans!

Zephyr, Zuchinni and Crook Neck Squash.

Wax Beans! Yum!