Kansas City Food Circle's 2007 Calendar Archive
...(PSST!!... get into our Google Calendar...) 
Global Sustainability and National Security $10/ IRC Members $15 Non-Members |
Brace yourself, Communiversity is proud to announce our ninth Wholistic Health Fair, scheduled for Sunday, March 18, 2007, from 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM, at the UMKC University Center, Pierson Auditorium, 5100 Holmes, KCMO. For the last 8 years many new health and therapeutic professionals from in and around the Kansas City area got together to share ideas and techniques with each other and with the public. If you'd like to get on board this year, remember that we have a limit of 60 tables and 20 workshops. Our booth space has sold out every year and the Spring Health Fair was awesome! CLICK HERE FOR A .PDF CONTAINING ALL 20 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS As a Health Enthusiast, there are several ways for you to participate in this upcoming event: 1) Tables may be reserved for $90 (by November 17th) and $110 (after that). You'll receive 50 coupons for a free workshop to hand out to your clients and friends (a $100 value). 2) 20 presenters will be selected to offer 45-minute workshops during the event. Deadline for submission is November 17. We will select from the submitted proposals to create a well-rounded and informative line-up of workshops. 3) Come to the event and invite your friends. Admission to the fair is free. Participants may pay $2 per workshop or any 3 workshops for $5 (1 free with a coupon) Exhibitors are provided a table, 2 chairs, a plastic table cover, sign card with your company name and 2 name badges. You may bring your own table cover and signage, but no wall banners without prior approval. You may sell products and services, collect names and addresses and give away prizes. Unfortunately, we cannot allow samples or sales of food. There will be an area for private consultations if desired. Communiversity will publicize the event in our Fall catalog, read by more than 40,000 people. We'll distribute flyers and posters throughout the metro area and advertise in local periodicals. Ads will be available for health fair professionals to purchase. The 50 free tickets we provided with booths boosted participation substantially last year and are expected to do the same this year. Our Wholistic Health Fair will demonstrate and teach a variety of techniques for staying healthy and maintaining vitality and youthfulness. You can make valuable connections with other practitioners while attendees sample from a variety of health education and techniques. Phone: 816-235-1448 E-mail: commu +@+ umkc.edu |
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Details and other links: EarthFest 2007 Celebrate Earth Day at this free outdoor festival featuring more than 70 exhibitors and vendors, family entertainment and environmentally friendly activities. Children’s singer Jim Cosgrove & The Hiccups will entertain on the main stage along with Five Defy and Stan Slaughter. EarthFest is expected to again feature such environmental topics as recycling, climate change, energy efficiency, air quality, alternative transportation and more. Check back soon for detailed information about EarthFest! The Kansas City EarthFest 2007 Exhibitor Information Join us at The Kansas City EarthFest 2007 to celebrate and provide environmental education on Earth Day! This year’s event is scheduled for Saturday, April 21 from 10 AM to 2 PM EarthFest is a great way to share your organization or company’s planet-friendly message with all of Kansas City! We’d love to have you join us as an exhibitor or vendor at this Applying is simple. Read the guidelines and complete an application. We encourage displays that are both fun and interactive for the entire family. EarthFest is a unique opportunity to teach more people, young and old, about the environment. Appropriate vendors will be allowed to sell items during EarthFest. Please see the enclosed guidelines. The application deadline is March 21. Please send your completed application form to Stacia Stelk, Bridging The Gap, 435 Westport Rd. #23, Kansas City, Missouri 64111. Please note, there is no tabling fee to exhibit at EarthFest 2007. However due to budget constraints, we are unable to provide tables and chairs for participants. Instead, we are happy to rent them on your behalf. Tables (including one 8’ table, table cloth, and 2 chairs) are $20 each. Please note that EarthFest 2007 is a rain-or-shine event. We are unable to provide shelter for inclement weather. For that reason, we strongly encourage exhibitors and vendors to provide their own canopies or rent one, at cost, through us. Please read the application for complete details. We hope to see at you at The Kansas City EarthFest 2007! |
BOOTHS AND EXHIBITS:
*** Bring No Pets *** EVENTS:
*** No Cats & No Dogs *** PLEASE BRING YOUR LAWN CHAIRS << add this event to your Google calendar
For More Information, call (816) 444-5788 |
Sunday, Jun 24th, 12pm-5pm Tickets cost $5 per person, All proceeds from the tour support the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 tax exempt organization Janet Brown Moss Joel Wakham 816-531-6577 KC Center for Urban Agriculture |
http://www.sustainabletable.org/roadtrip/ >> 8/23 Kansas City, MO / Lawrence, KS |
“FOOD AS ENERGY "IS WHAT I EAT IN HARMONY AND IN AGREEMENT WITH MY LIFE PURPOSE, spiritual path, family, heart’s desires, career, and my inner knowingness?" We will be focusing on the Hippocrates way of healthy eating and living the healing Raw Foods Lifestyle combined with Universal Life Principles. • Hippocrates Health DVD Series (by Dr. Anna Maria Clement & Dr. Brian Clement) We will share and talk together — laugh and have fun! Call Rev. Marlene D. Wolford 816-525-3722 for more info. “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her/his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” |
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it was August 23, 2007 The tour this year is designed to show market gardening with a variety of crops, and demonstrations of vegetable growing technology. Help us in planning, please register by Friday, August 17th. REGISTRATION Please use one registration form per family so we have an accurate mailing list. Name(s): ________________________________________________ City: ______________________________ State: ____ Zip: ________ County: _______________ Phone: ____________________________ E-mail: ____________________________ The tour is free; however, please mail, call, e-mail or fax your registration by Friday, August 17th to: University of Missouri Extension Schedule More detailed maps will be given out at the first Tour Stop. 8:30-9:00 am Register at Karbaumer Farm - - - Karbaumer Farm is located at 12200 State Hwy 92 near Platte City. Take exit 18 off of Interstate 29 and go East (towards Smithville) the farm is on the north side of Hwy 92 about a mile and one half from Platte City. You will see a tire swing and flag pole in the yard and there is an “egg” sign by the mail box. Klaus and LeAnn Karbaumer grow around 40 different varieties of vegetables, plus herbs and cut flowers. To get an early start on production a high tunnel is used. The power to run equipment for the farm is provided by draft horses. They grow their crops organically. The farm also features farm fresh eggs via free-ranging, pasture grazing hens. Produce is marketed through their “Farm Table” community supported agriculture (CSA) program that provides baskets of produce and eggs to families and individuals who purchase shares for the year. The CSA operates May through October. They also market produce and eggs at the Platte City and Weston Farmers Markets. - - - Fair Share Farm: (Tour Stop 2) Fair Share Farm is located at 18613 Downing Road, near Kearney. Take Hwy 92 East of Kearney and follow the signs to the Jesse James farm. Go past the James farm to the stop sign. At the stop sign turn left on Route BB, go north on BB to Route MM. Follow route MM to Downing Road. Take Downing Road to the farm, the 1st place on the right. Rebecca Graff and Tom Ruggieri grow over 200 varieties of 50 different vegetables and herbs on their farm. Produce is grown following organic and sustainable farming methods. They built a solar heated greenhouse that utilizes barrels of water to collect heat during the day and releases heat at night to grow their early crops. Drip irrigation and strip cropping using cover crops is utilized. And they have fencing to prevent deer damage to their crops. Produce is marketed through a community supported agriculture (CSA) system. Families and individuals receive food each week from mid-May through October. They have around 100 families who receive food and help with producing their food. - - - Watkins Woolen Mill: (Tour Stop 3) Watkins Woolen Mill is a state park and historic site near Lawson. The Historic Site section of the facility includes the Watkins family home and woolen mill. The Watkins family farm also includes a vegetable garden and orchard. The staff and Master Gardener volunteers now interpret the garden by growing heirloom varieties of vegetables that would have been grown during the time the Watkins family lived there. Additionally several original buildings, including a fruit-drying house, have been preserved at the site. A museum on the grounds includes exhibits pertaining to the family, farm, and mill. Box lunches will be provided by The Rayville Baking Company a part of the Van Till Family farm. They bake artisan breads, pies, and pastries with organic flours and as much as possible with other natural ingredients. The farm also raises hogs, chickens, and beef along with grapes and greenhouse production. The deli lunch will feature organic whole bread with some of their own wonderfully flavorful meats, such as genoa salami and matadella and fresh condiments. It will also include a fresh bakery dessert, a side and a drink. - - - |
and AFTER the Missouri Vegetable Tour...
Help us plug this event - download the film poster >> .PDF <-or-> .JPG to co-sponsor a night of organic short films with SUSTAINABLE TABLE at 7 p.m., Aug. 23, at LIBERTY HALL Lawrence, Kan. – Sustainable Table (www.sustainabletable.org) is traveling across the country with “The Eat Well Guided Tour of America.” The group is stopping in select U.S. cities from Hollywood to New York to celebrate local food and the people who grow it. While visiting Lawrence, the group will team with Local Burger and Films for Action to present Rural Route Film Festival’s “Go Organic!” film series, a collection of short documentary films highlighting positive sustainable and organic practices that are growing in momentum in communities all across the country. The event starts at 7 p.m., Aug. 23, at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., Lawrence. Hilary Brown’s Local Burger, 714 Vermont St., Lawrence, will provide free organic and local food for the event. A $5 admission will cover costs and support Films for Action’s ongoing efforts to raise awareness about positive local and organic food solutions. Award-winning sustainability journalist Simran Sethi, Lacy Haynes Professional Chair at the University of Kansas School of Journalism, will speak at the event. Sethi is the host/writer for the Sundance Channel’s program, “The Green.” “With public awareness growing about the dangers of genetically modified foods, factory farming, corporately patented terminator seeds, and our current agricultural system’s dependence on increasingly expensive fossil fuels, communities are looking for more healthy and sustainable alternatives,” says Tim Hjersted, director of the Films for Action project. “These films provide an inspiring look at the innovation and widespread efforts that are taking place all over the country to create more localized and healthy food economies. We’re happy to support and raise awareness for many of the positive local initiatives that are happening here in Lawrence right now.”
These animated and documentary films provide a refreshing education on the current state of agriculture and point out positive sustainable and organic practices in which people can take part. “The Meatrix” and “Frankensteer” expose the ways of unethical farming, while others provide positive role models through Community Supported Agriculture, farmers’ markets and sustainable local farms. “The Meatrix I, II, & II ½” … by Louis Fox, 2006 … New York “Frankensteer” … by Ted Remerowski and Marrin Canell, 2005 … Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada and the United States “Back to the Land…Again” … by Gretta Wing Miller, 2006 … Wisconsin “Good Stewards” … by Dulanie Ellis, 2006 … Ventura County, Calif. Hilary Brown
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...(it is so easy ... get connected to our Google Calendar and get event updates and reminders in e-mail ...)
In addition to the KCFC co-hosted / co-sponsored events listed above,
we encourage you to browse our public Google calendar to find other
worthy causes, organizations and events in the greater Kansas City area -
for your convenience we've included weekly entries for our four (4)
featured farmers markets:
KC Food Circle - Hosting and Plugging...
Topics, Agendas, Other Orgs with Event Calendars,
Non Sequiturs and Cross-Pollination
As you can see from the calendar entries above, we host and co-host a number of events every year, and sponsors keep lining up to have us do more. In addition, we're happy to advertise events and provide links (see/use our Bulletin Board) to any like-organization or operation in the Kansas City area.
The links and pages found here represent only a sample of all the regional Local Farm / Sustainable Agriculture / Natural Food / Organic Growers / Farmers Markets / Seminars / Conferences / etc... that are scheduled, but we'd like to help promote all of them. Register on our Bulletin Board, or send us e-mail (KCFoodCircle @t GMAIL .d.o.t. COM), and WRITE to let us know what else we can do to promote common causes - the sooner the better.
Registration on our Bulletin Board is one way to help us keep you (and us) up-to-date, but...
MEMBERSHIP in The Kansas City Food Circle has additional benefits.
^^ Click here for details ^^
Cross-Pollination:
Our members often attend other grass-roots events and centres of activism, handing out Food Circle flyers and promoting our own Local Food evolution.
See:
NEW KC LOCAL FOOD MAGAZINE: www.GreenabilityMagazine.com
(click here for early subscription info and the announcement msg on our bulletin board)
EatLocalKC.com - a new blogspot, the name says it all... our very own Eat Local Challenge
TheDoctorCooks.com
NewFarm.org - Farmer-to-Farmer Know-How from the Rodale Institute
KKFI 90.1 FM - Kansas City Community Radio http://www.kkfi.org/
At Your Table - http://www.AtYourTable1660.com
KXTR Classical Radio 1660 AM - Kansas City
KCUR 89.3 FM - KC Public Radio (NPR) - http://www.kcur.org/
KANU - KPR (Kansas Public Radio) - http://kansaspublicradio.org/
KCFC Community Topics
(KCFC Bulletin Board)
Healthy Food Healthy Farms Conference Synopsis
Sierra Club - Thomas Hart Benton Group
( Western Missouri and K.C. Area)
Sierra Club- Ozark (Missouri) Chapter
missouri.sierraclub.org/
Sierra Club- Kansas Chapter
kansas.sierraclub.org
The Green Calendar
greenskc.com/calendar.htm
Food Circles Networking Project of the Missouri Extension
foodcircles.missouri.edu
Growing Growers
growinggrowers.org
GrowingForMarket.com - National Monthly Journal for Direct Market Farmers
K-State Research and Extension:
http://oznet.ksu.edu
The Kansas Rural Center Calendar
http://KansasRuralCenter.org/calendar.html
THE K-State SusAG Web Site:
http://www.KansasSustainableAg.org/
slowfoodkansascity.com (old link)
Slow Food - Kansas City Convivium - www.slowfoodkc.org
Slow Food USA Ark - SlowFoodUSA.org/ark
VegKansasCity.com - aka VegKC.com - Kansas City's online resource for anyone interested in reducing the amount of animal products they consume...
Bridging the Gap - Connecting Environment, Economy, Community
BridgingTheGap.org
Buy Fresh, Buy Local - Good Food, Good Earth
http://www.BridgingTheGap.org/PROGRAMS/business/BuyFreshBuyLocalmain.htm
Eating Fresh Publications… connecting home cooks, professional chefs, restaurateurs, food enthusiasts, and eaters to local agriculture and celebrating the taste, health, and community benefits of eating local, seasonal, pasture-raised and organic food.
EatingFresh.com
National Audubon Society - K.C. Chapter
Burroughs.org
WormDigest.Org - What happened to Real Food?
GreenPeople.org - Buy Green, Sell Green, Be Green
FWWatch.org - food & water watch
DFHA.org (Democracy For the Heartland of America)
DemocracyInAction.org
gobartimes.org - Environment for Beginners + a neat (1992) .PDF
The Ex-Patriate's Kitchen (an advice-rich slow-food blogspot you should bookmark and pass along to your friends)
... new (and renewing) eyes ...
MetroFarm.com/ and Food Chain Radio
Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
OCA NEWS HEADLINES - A Digest of the Top News Stories on Organics, Food Safety, Fair Trade, Genetic Engineering, Globalization, and Much More.
MOVIE NIGHTS (and DAYS) * phone or verify schedules in advance
Crude Impact
Film Showing on August 16th
Please join ReEnergizeKC,
the Thomas Hart Benton Group of the Sierra Club,
the Greens of KC,
the Community of Reason, and
the Kansas City Food Circle...
...at 6:30 p.m. on August 16th...
...for a free film showing of Crude Impact
(CI, online at www. CrudeImpact.com , including a trailer).
The film will be shown at the Missouri Department of Conservation's Discovery Center,
4750 Troost, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110
The film will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with representatives from the cosponsoring organizations.
Crude Impact movingly explores the broad range of destructive consequences from our enormous petroleum use, including the well-recognized issues of air and water pollution, global warming and climate disruption. It goes beyond these ecological issues, however, to explore the cultural impacts on indigenous societies in oil-producing regions of the world as well as the many geopolitical consequences, including repressive governments, civil conflicts, and wars.
The film also addresses the growing body of evidence that global oil and natural gas production are going to peak soon and begin to decline even though the global economy is dependent on growing supplies of cheap and abundant energy. What will volatile and much higher energy prices--and eventual supply shortfalls--mean for our way of life?
It wasn't the filmmakers' intention to simply illustrate the damage that results from our petroleum use, however. As they state on their website, "[t]he objective of the film is to promote positive, hopeful change in the way we source and use energy," and so they also explore what we could do differently in order to achieve a sustainable future.
We hope you'll join us to learn more and talk about these issues. Please try to bring someone with you who isn't already concerned about these issues.
For more info, contact John Fish Kurmann at
willowjohn(@)gmail.com
Organic Short Films... August 23, 2007....
LOCAL BURGER and FILMS FOR ACTION of Lawrence
to co-sponsor a night of organic short films
Check out the following UMKC Movie Nights put on by the local
Energy Awareness Group: (http://www.goodbyecheapoil.com/films/)
- program cancelled -
... and ...
Olathe Public Library - First Saturday Cinema:
- program cancelled -
For More Information: Ralph (913) 971-6889
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Non Sequiturs:
(Moving to a more appropriate venue - web search for [food cicle non sequitur] in a few weeks)
