Member Growers

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SCROLL DOWN FOR OUR TEXT-ONLY GROWER MEMBER LISTINGS ~~ This is our Know Your Grower page, an alphabetical listing of all current member growers of the Kansas City Food Circle. Our annual Directory (click here for the .PDF booklet) is just one place where locavores can read up on our local organic and free-range growers – the text-only list below provides links to current info, and it will be updated as new content is provided.  We also provide web page setup, web space and help with extending web presence to all member growers who request it – listings on this page will be linked to individual pages found in the pull-down menu under Member Growers (above). Our latest Grower Pledges are being uploaded (as time permits) when our member growers submit sign-up & renewal paperwork – links to each will be made available on the individual Member Growers pages.**

** All pledges scanned and copied online were signed by the principals involved. The scanned signatures have, however, been obscured for security reasons.

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Know Your Grower

(Disclaimer)

Aside from requiring a small membership fee, the KC Food Circle has no financial interest in any of our producer-members. Our producers agree to meet our production standards by signing our Farmers Pledges. They also write their own listings for this Directory. Being an all-volunteer organization we do not have the resources to inspect and certify their growing and animal treatment practices or to verify any other claims. Nor can we guarantee our producers’ product quality or performance. If you have questions about what is meant by any particular term in a listing, please contact the producer directly. The Food Circle’s mission is to provide people the information they need to build relationships based on trust with those who produce their food. Detailed information about many of our producers is found below.

Current KCFC Member Growers:*

* these entries come from the final draft of our Directory of Local Organic and Free-Range Food Producers – they have been edited due to space limitations in the printed version, and the list shown here may be scrollable.  Full details of each farm will be found on individual pages linked by the farm name (pending) — these page entries are also found in the pull-down menu list under Member Growers (above)

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Our latest Grower Pledges are being uploaded as our member growers submit renewals – links to each will be made available on the Growers’ pages linked below.** We require all our farmer-members to sign Farmers Pledges (see our .PDF version of the Directory). These Farmers Pledges only apply to the farming practices they use on their farms, not to the farming practices used to produce any off-farm ingredients in the processed foods they may sell (such as breads, jams, salsas, sausages, etc.). Also, one of our members, Paradise Locker Meats, is exclusively a retail store, not a farm, so they are not required to sign any Pledges. While we are committed to promoting organic agriculture, we also recognize the economic and logistical difficulties inherent in running a small farm while society continues to subsidize and promote large-scale, petrochemical agriculture. Consequently, we consider exceptions to the standards described in these Pledges on a case-by-case basis. To see if a particular farm has been granted any exceptions, go to our Member Growers page and click on the PLEDGE link found at the top of every individual growers’ page. ** All pledges scanned and copied online were signed by the principals involved. The scanned document signature-blocks have, however, been obscured for security reasons.

* this extended KNOW YOUR GROWER – KC Food Circle Member Growers (KCFCMG) info is always being updated, as time permits and input is provided. New KCFC members, growers who qualify & join us after the March printing deadline for our annual Directory, can opt in for online listings and all other types of support at any time at a reduced sign-up fee of $20. Interested growers can visit our MEMBERSHIP page , fill-out and send in the forms (including your signed Growers Pledge(s)) to apply. NOTE: The old BB was archived & shut down in December 2008. Please let us know when old links to kcfoodcircle.smn-rab.org are found. Send questions and comments to BB (@) KCFoodCircle.org