Sweet Potatoing
Kansas City Sweet Potato Project 2012
This is the Fifth year that Food Not Lawns Kansas City has worked to help the community grow and enjoy sweet potatoes. Sweet Potatoes are a nutritious, beautiful landscape plant that is low maintenance and doesn’t require excessive water. They are well suited for public flower beds and have the added bonus of providing a nutritious and popular yield.
Kansas City Sweet Potato Project is growing 20,000lb of sweet potatoes in public places, parks, schools, churches, businesses, community gardens and in your lawn.
The goal is to grow, tend, harvest and cure for storage 10,000 lb for Harvester and local food pantries. And another 10,000 for the growers supporting the program.
We ask the growers to purchase the transplants.
They are available at Kansas City Community Gardens http://www.kccg.org/ ,
Squash Blossom Food Cooperative http://squashblossomcoop.org/
and many farmers markets.
We are seeking people, organizations and businesses to adopt a sweet potato bed or a Green Wall prototype sweet potato growing system designed and built by Kansas State University architecture students.
Sponsors can either supply volunteers or donate money to support their bed. This is a chance to make a real difference for people and the environment in Kansas City and is going to be so much fun.
The Kansas City Sweet Potato Project is a project of Reconciliation Services 3101 Troost a 501(c)3, Food Not Lawns Kansas City , the Society of St. Andrew West http://www.endhunger.org/sosawest.htm and Troost Village Community Association http://www.troostvillage.org/
You can find out more about the project at the Kansas City Sweet Potato Project Facebook page. To volunteer or for more information contact Karin Page, SOSA West Program Coordinator at 816-921-0856 or Steve Mann 816 352-9213