WELCOME! In operation for over 12 years, the Kansas City Food Circle is an all-volunteer, grassroots organization created to promote the development of a permanently sustainable local food system. We serve the greater Kansas City area (eaters and growers in Missouri, Kansas, and reaching out to nearby communities in Nebraska and Iowa) providing an alternative to the conventional agricultural system, which is dependent on practices that are neither good for our personal health nor for the health of the living world we are part of. Most of our work centers on making connections between area growers who meet our organic produce or free-range animal standards and people who want to eat delicious, nutritious, locally-grown food.
ABOUT US --- MISSION STATEMENT
Our 2008/2009 Winter Markets are open... Click Here for details
EAT LOCAL! - our annual KCFC Exhibition of Farmers is scheduled for 2009...
Saturday, March 28th, 2009 - in Shawnee, KS
and
Saturday, April 4th, 2009 - in Independence, MO
Resources for an organically inclined community:
- Our annual KC Food Circle Directory of Local Organic and Free-Range Food Producers. (300KB .PDF) --
We also provide an up-to-date version of the KCFC Directory with a linked Table of Contents.
- For more detailed info from and about our producers, including photos, click on
Know Your Grower.
- Click here for The Peas and Carrots of Buying Local.
(Why Peas and Carrots? Well... Nuts and Bolts just don't taste as good.)
- Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a unique partnership between eaters and farmers. Members normally join a CSA at the beginning of the calendar year, reserving a spot and paying for at least part of the season up front. This helps to provide a guaranteed market and income to the farmer... (CLICK for more...)
- Become a Food Circle member, and reap the benefits! 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.... (CLICK for more...)
- NEW AND IMPROVED: The KCFC Harvest Hotline is easier to use! Farmers post the latest available harvest info so buyers can make a direct connection to arrange for pickup or delivery - see samples and current offerings on our bulletin board. Most often,
Harvest Hotline postings alert eaters to immediately-available perishable goods, so don't dawdle too long, or you may miss out...
- The Kansas City Food Circle UPDATE - published by our coordinating committee, the KCFC UPDATE newsletter will contain sage advice, timely articles and commentary about events and issues which should concern us all. Search our archive, and you are sure to find something of interest.... (CLICK for more...)
- Featured Organic Farmer's Markets
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Locavore" is a word first introduced by
Jessica Prentice from San Francisco
Bay Area on the occasion of
World Environment Day 2005
to describe and promote the practice
of eating a diet consisting of food
harvested from within an area most
commonly bound by a 100 mile radius.
"Localvore" is also used.
Locavore was the Oxford
Word of the Year 2007.
(See also:
The Ethicurean - Chew the Right Thing
...and... www.Locavores.com)
