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This market is one of six (6) featured farmers markets in the Greater Kansas City area...

Troostwood Youth Garden Market

May thru October - Youth are providing fresh and healthy VEGETABLES from A to Z.

Ericka Wright
5142 Paseo
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
816-444-5788 or
Fax: 816-333-0401

e-Mail: Troostwood (@) KCFoodCircle. org
www.KCFoodCircle.org/growers/troostwood/

MARKET DAYS - May 15 thru late October

Friday nights, 5 - 8 PM
- and -
Saturdays, 8 am to 2 pm,

COME TO OUR GREEN NEIGHBORHOOD FESTIVAL
on Saturday, May 16th, 2009 - 10am - 4pm (help us FLYER...)

We are members of JJ Farms, and all of our foods are grown by organic methods.
Please call if you have questions.

So What is This "Featured Market" About?

In Kansas City we are fortunate to have access to six (6) Organic Farmers Markets that only accept vegetable and fruit farmers who agree to grow using organic methods. Organic growers avoid the use of conventional fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, and other biocides, and strive to preserve the health of the living soil. In addition, the farmers at these markets who produce meat, eggs, and dairy products agree to avoid the use of synthetic growth promotants such as hormones and subtherapeutic antibiotics. Our featured market listings are written by representatives of the markets, and the Food Circle, being an all-volunteer organization, is unable to evaluate or certify each market’s standards and practices. For additional information about these issues or to find out what is meant by any particular term in a market listing, please contact the market directly with your questions..

Our annual Green Neighborhood Festival

May 16th - Details for 2009.

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Troostwood You

Youth gardeners have the opportunity to explore urban agriculture
in Kansas City, MO at the Troostwood Garden in
Kansas City. Located on a corner lot donated for use by
Rockhurst University, Troostwood Gardens is in an urban
neighborhood.

There, a master gardener, and ten youth work with Ericka
Wright’s “Urban Agriculture Youth Program,” building
their urban agriculture skills. They grow produce to sell at
the Troostwood Youth Garden Market.Through the help of
a 2005 grant from the NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher Grant
Program, the Urban Agriculture Youth Program at Troostwood
Garden’s hopes to in uence a change in youths’ lifestyle
and at the same time improve their nutrition, environment,
social and economic practices. Ericka Wright’s family
started Troostwood Gardens on their property in 2000 as
an activity for neighborhood youth.

“In the community I live in, we were the only house in the
neighborhood with a swing set, so we had always kids in
the yard. Many of the kids had low scores in reading and
math,” explained Wright. “Most people enjoy eating, whatever
level they’re at, and we  gured we could read a little,
eat a little, do a little math, and learn together in the garden
with the kids.”

At 41 years-old, Wright is disabled from muscular dystrophy,
and values a healthful diet. Wright wanted to show
children healthful nutrition as part of a healthy lifestyle.
“In terms of sustainable agriculture, our project falls in line
with community. It brings people together in an outdoor
classroom, and makes people aware of sustainable gardening
practices in the inner city, saving seeds, and eating
healthfully,” said Wright.

Youth begin gardening each March and continue working
in the garden and at the Troostwood Youth Garden Market
until the last vegetables are harvested, typically in late October.
“We’ve found that the youth developed better self esteem.
They saw the fruits of their labor and how their hard work
had paid off…They now have knowledge of a garden, what
it takes to have and build one, and team work.”

Excerpted from:
http://www.sare.org/ncrsare/newsletter/NCRSARE_WinterSpring2008.pdf

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