Food Circle Membership

SECTION INDEX:

• Food Producers
  - "Why Join?" + Membership Form (<< click here)
  - (optional) Producer Questionnaire (<< click here to help us update the Directory, and more)
  
• Individual Eaters, Buyers and Families
  - Membership Benefits
  - "Why Join?"
  - Membership Form (.rtf)
  

Eaters / Buyers:

Excerpt from The KC Food Circle Update (Winter, 2001):

Food Circle Gives You a Little and a Lot

Many of you receiving this newsletter are Food Circle Members and many of you have received information from the Food Circle, but are not yet members. Non-members frequently ask, What do I get for my Food Circle membership? The answer is a little and a lot.

The Food Circle doesn't have a glossy magazine, monthly meetings, or monthly mailings. We don't ask you to give extra contributions. That's a little.

We are an organization whose sole purpose is to promote local, sustainable agriculture. Farming is hard work, and most farmers are too busy farming to spend large amounts of time to marketing. The Food Circle forms a connection between farmers and eaters. We send out newsletters and free information to the public in order to educate eaters on some of the many issues related to farming and food safety. We hold general membership meetings twice a year so eaters can meet farmers face-to-face. Those meetings provide an educational forum for food issues.

If you attend a meeting, you can sometimes buy goods directly from attending farmers and sample some really good food. We publish a yearly directory of farmers and what they produce, so if you're looking for farm-fresh veggies with no pesticides or a local source of milk or where you can buy a fresh turkey that has been raised without antibiotics and hormones in the great outdoors - you have a resource.

We hold an annual Farmers Expo where you can sign up for a CSA (weekly veggie bundle), buy seedlings, free range meats, canned goods, and flour or find a place you can buy food in bulk. For the last two years, we've held a picnic/ potluck where we've provided local fresh corn and everyone brings a potluck dish. A potluck where farmers and eaters are showing off their best is a joy to behold. That's a lot.

FOOD PRODUCERS:

New sections of the KCFC Bulletin Board are designed to help eaters connect directly with KCFC member farmers and food producers. All you need do is register on the bulletin board, log on, and create or edit your own Know Your Grower entry, or post updates to the Harvest Hotline.

If you have not done so already, please take a few minutes to fill out our Producer Questionnaire (help us update the KCFC Directory, and much more).

Thanks!