Subject: Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture

• Who says no one is hiring

  If you or someone you know is in need of a job and has some experience in sustainable agriculture or community organizing, the best nonprofit in the city -- the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture in Kansas City, Kansas -- is filling two positions right now. It needs a farm manager and a farm business developer. If you're interested in agriculture and don't want to give up the urban life this is the job for you. The KCCUA is a non-profit devoted to trying to get people to use whatever extra

  January 19, 2009

• Chipotle: "No, we're not just another chain."

  Two weeks ago I wrote a post called Chipotle just another chain. Shortly afterwards, a public relations firm representing the burrito chain e-mailed to clear up some things in the post. I still had some questions, though, so I talked to Chipotle spokesperson Chris Arnold.Arnold told me that burrito sizes haven't changed and that Chipotle doesn't videotape its employees to make sure they're giving out small scoops. "That sounds a little 1984 to me as well," he said. "We certainly do try to keep e

  February 16, 2009

• Music + Good Deeds

  April 16, 2009

• Bingo

  From the new Bloch building to the Fringe Fest, here's what to do when it's hot outside.

  June 7, 2007

• The Give a Shit List

  This week: Don't let Power & Light be the last word on downtown redevelopment, understand the connection between your automobile and environmental Armageddon and score a few bucks for the United Way by taking in possibly the most kick-ass game of the soccer season.

  May 18, 2009

• Local Growth

  June 18, 2009

• Get ready for the KC Urban Farms and Garden tour

  While the main event isn't until next week, the KC Urban Farms and Garden Tour is putting on 10 days of pre-tour activities to spread its message of food sustainability. Tonight at the Plaza Branch of the KCMO Library is "My Blooming Garden" a story-time for children to learn about all the things they can grown in their own back yards. The kids get help planting their own seeds to take home. The event is free and begins at 7 p.m.Saturday features a cooking class on raw food basics at the Tony

  June 19, 2009

• Urban farm fundraisers all over town

  Caenan Castle in Shawnee This week is full of events leading up to Sunday's Tour of Urban Farms (more about that tomorrow). Tonight at 7 p.m., All Souls Church at 4501 Walnut presents a free screening of the documentary Mad City Chickens, about people who raise chickens (sometimes illegally) in the city. And even if you can't attend the different classes and lectures throughout the week, you can still help by dining out tonight as part of the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture fundra

  June 24, 2009

• Urban Farms Tour

  Nicole ReinertsonI know I'm not the only one who's passed the artsy Obama sign, constructed with mismatched sign letters and mounted on a wall of wooden pallets, at 3314 Troost and wished I could get inside to take a closer look. From the street, the lot beside the black-and-teal artist studio looks like some kind of secret garden. It lived up to my curiosity.  I was just one of scores of interested residents who paraded through Hoop Dog

  June 29, 2009

• Report (and slideshow!) of Kansas City Urban Farms and Garden Tour

  If you didn't get to attend the KC Urban Farms and Gardens Tour  this past Sunday, here is a slideshow showing some of the things you missed. Katherine Kelly of the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture and one of the tour organizers, says not only the farmers and gardeners who took part were happy, but the attendees were, too. "It was a good mix. A lot of people were interested in food growing, along with a few casual families ... it was people who are interested in eating well and they

  July 2, 2009

• Make Kansas City laws friendly for urban farmers

  The neighborhood drama started with a simple crop of tomatoes. Brooke Salvaggio​In 2007, Brooke Salvaggio took over the 2.5 acres surrounding her grandparents' house on Bannister Road in southern Kansas City and turned it into Bad Seed Farm. This spring, with husband Dan Heryer adding his expertise to the urban operation, the organic farmers decided to expand their cornucopia, including a new planting of tomatoes in the front, side yard. But the blushing fruit happened to be within view o

  October 20, 2009

• Discussing the future of urban agriculture in KC

  ​First, a disclosure, my wife and I are one of the four community supported agriculture (CSA) members at Bad Seed Farm. As such, we have a vested interest in seeing Bad Seed succeed. Urban farmers, community leaders and city officials gathered before a crowd of close to 100 people at Bad Seed Farm's downtown market space on Tuesday night to discuss the process for potentially changing the development code in Kansas City. "We need to look at urban agriculture as a potential solution to problems

  October 22, 2009

• Discussing the future of urban agriculture in KC

  ​First, a disclosure, my wife and I are one of the four community supported agriculture (CSA) members at Bad Seed Farm. As such, we have a vested interest in seeing Bad Seed succeed. Jonathan Bender wrote this post on Fat City earlier today. Since it updates Carolyn Szczepanski's post from earlier this week, we're cross posting. Urban farmers, community leaders and city officials gathered before a crowd of close to 100 people at Bad Seed Farm's downtown market space on Tuesday night to disc

  October 22, 2009

• Urban-ag promoters prepare to work on City Hall

  ​A committee organized to identify the key issues around urban agriculture in the Kansas City, Missouri metro area -- the result of a public forum on October 22 -- met for the first time on Monday night at the Nutter Ivanhoe Neighborhood Center in midtown. "We want to revise the codes of Kansas City, Missouri, to be more supportive of urban farming and lay out a pathway that other municipalities can follow," said Katherine Kelly, director of the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture.For a c

  November 10, 2009

• Urban agriculture steering committee begins work

  ​Jonathan Bender wrote this post on Fat City earlier today. A steering committee organized to identify the key issues around urban agriculture in the Kansas City, Missouri, metro area -- the result of an public forum on October 22 -- met for the first time on Monday night at the Nutter Ivanhoe Neighborhood Center in midtown. "We want to revise the codes of Kansas City, Missouri, to be more supportive of urban farming and lay out a pathway that other municipalities can follow, said Katherine

  November 10, 2009