by Rebecca McMahon | Mar 30, 2020 | Buy Local, Farmers Market, Fresh Food, Local Economy, Local Farms, Produce, Sustainability, Wichita
Even as many of our lives have faced upheaval in the past days and weeks, some things don’t change. One of those things is that we still all eat, and the farmers growing and raising our food don’t stop what they are doing. Now more than ever it is...
by Rebecca McMahon | Feb 27, 2019 | Food Production, Fresh Food, Kansas Agriculture, Local Farms, Millennial Farmers, Sustainability
We are well into recruiting and matching apprentices and host farms for the program, and the excitement of our applicants is contagious. Heidi Marcinik, a photographer and web designer, is one of our inaugural apprentices. She has already begun her own farming...
by Rebecca McMahon | Jan 4, 2018 | Food Production, Local Farms, Produce, Sustainability
Over the past several months, I have heard a lot of support and interest in starting a Growing Growers program in the Wichita area. This program has been instrumental in growing the local food system in NE Kansas over the last 10+ years. We are tentatively planning on...
by Rebecca McMahon | May 25, 2017 | Farmer Technology, Food Production, Sustainability
If you’ve looked at our list of “What’s In Season?” and then looked at your garden or a planting calendar, you may be wondering how it is possible for all of these things to be in season at the markets for our local farmers? Are they cheating?...
by Mikel Bowyer | Apr 30, 2016 | Buy Local, Food Production, Fresh Food, Local Farms, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Wichita
Arguably the most rewarding way to commit to shopping local is by engaging with a local farmer through a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. One online advocate for shopping and eating local, LocalHarvest.org, describes a CSA this way: Here are the basics:...
by Rebecca Morris | Apr 9, 2016 | Buy Local, Farm Equipment, Farmer Technology, Farmers Market, Food Production, Fresh Food, ICT Food Circle, Kansas Agriculture, Kansas History, KS, Local Economy, Local Farms, Millennial Farmers, Produce, Sustainability, Wichita
Millennial farmers, especially first generation, not only hack their lifestyles in order to build sustainable farms and invest in their land, they also hack the technology they use to tend their fields. Though there have been many advances in the type of equipment...
