Articles
Eating for global change
Good news for the earth, animals, and all of us
by Judy Carman (Lawrence)
Permaculture is more than a new way of gardening--it's a sustainable way to live on planet Earth
Primary Seeds: Providing links to keeping our local food heritage
by Dianna Henry (Lawrence)
Resources
Local Food
Local
Burger
Sustainable fast food that is organic, and local. Featuring local
meats such as beef, buffalo, elk, pork, emu, lamb, turkey. Special
diet and vegetarian friendly, local Tofu and the World’s Best
Veggie Burger.
Lawrence
Farmers Market
Offering fresh, locally grown food and community connectedness since
1976
The
Community Mercantile
Lawrence's natural food co-op facillitates education on health and food
Lawrence
Community Garden Project
A growing action catching on across the country, begun here in
1992
Rolling
Prairie
Community Supported Agriculture serving NE Kansas. From the farmer
to you...directly
Vinland
Valley Nursery
Greenhouse plants grown in certified organic potting mix, using
only safe organic and biological pest controls. Energy use offset
with Zephyr green tags. Registered with the Monarch Watch, affiliated
with Operation WildLife. Public education, including children.
Vegetables, Fruit and Nuts
Chestnut Charlies (Lawrence)
Permaculture farm featuring pecans, walnuts and Christmas trees
Hoyland Farm (Lawrence) rlominska@aol.com
Organic vegetables and more. Gardening techniques taught in exchange
for garden work
Maggie’s
Farm (Lawrence)
Producer of heirloom veggies, native perennial flowers and homespun
wool textiles
Oak Ridge Farm (Baldwin) 785-594-262
or organicgreene@myvine.com
Shiitake mushroom grower
Pendleton’s
Country Market
Veggies, flowers and bedding plants
River
Field Farm Pecans
Pecan grower west of Perry
Wakarusa Valley Farm (Lawrence)
785-749-4241
Organic vegetables, berries and mushrooms
Herbs
Blessed
Thistle Farm (McLouth) 785-842-4843
Herbal tinctures,salves,seeds, vegetable and herb gardens, fruit
trees, plants, counsel
Vajra
Farm
Medicinal herbs and alternative crops
Honey/Flowers
Anthony’s Kansas Honey (Lawrence)
785-842-2968
Honey products
Blossom Trail Bee Ranch (Baldwin)
785 979 2649
Honey production with primary focus to improve stock for a more
sustainable enterprise.
Snow’s Honey Hill Farms
(Eudora) 785-542-3489 or jsnow@ku.edu
Providing honey, fruit and veggies
Wild
Onion Farm (near Lone Star)
Small family farm specializing in organic cut flowers
Meats
Amys
Meats (Lawrence) 785-691-6251
Angus beef and pork with no added hormones, pet snacks, bird suet
and meal subscriptions. Eat healthy and TRUST the people you buy
from!
Clark Family Farm (Baldwin) 785-842-0385
Pasture raised chickens and turkeys, no hormones or antibiotics
used
Greenbriar Farms (Lecompton) 785-887-6300
Buffalo-cow cross raised without growth hormones, insecticide tags
or antibiotics for butchered beef
Homestead
Ranch (Lecompton)
Pasture raised goat meat, domestic rabbit meat, brown eggs and raw
goats milk
Janzen
Family Farm (Newton)
Producing 100% grass-fed beef
MJ
Ranch (Lawrence)
Four family farm with pasture-raised angus beef
Whispering Cedars Farm and Gardens (Lawrence) 785-748-0790
or glasswcfg0625@aol.com
Hormone-free butcher beef and pesticide free vegetables
Wine
Jefferson Hill Farm (McClouth)
913-796-6822
Local vineyard produced fresh grape juice and wine plus chemical
free Italian vegetables
Organizations
Douglas County Master Gardeners
(Lawrence) 785-843-7058
Become a master gardener through Cooperative Extension
Growing
Growers Training Program
Regional program for mentoring and training organic/sustainable
market gardeners
Gardening Information
Notes
for Local Gardeners
By Patti Norman
Bountiful
Gardens
Learn about using heirloom, untreated and open pollinated
seed for sustainable growing and seed saving
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