Food Not Lawns - Kansas City

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 [...]

  This will be the 5th year for the Kansas City Sweet Potato Project. This year our goal is 20,000lb grown in public places, parks, schools, churches, businesses, community gardens and in your lawn. 10,000lb for Harvesters, 10,000lb for the growers. Give Away your Love volunteer. We will be kicking off the project at a [...]

Can you survive on the planet Earth we are creating?  Grow Food Nor Lawns Not just another gardening class, “Food Not Lawns” will help you turn your lawn into a garden and your neighborhood into a community. Our goals are to help increase local food security, improve your diet, beautify your surroundings, reduce pollution and [...]

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Ecological Footprint Living Planet Report http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/living_planet_report_timeline/lpr_2008/  No-Till Pioneers:  THE ONE-STRAW REVOLUTION Over a period of thirty-five years, Masanobu Fukuoka developed a rotation of successive crops of summer and winter grains sown into a permanent bed of clover. With this method, which Fukuoka san described in The One-Straw Revolution, he was able to achieve yields of [...]

World Food Day KC 2011  This event seeks to raise awareness of genetically engineered food and the issues surrounding the future of organic food.  more info at:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=238129312896922 From Safe Food Action St. Louis: Why Are St. Louisans Concerned about Food?  Nutritious food is based on agricultural integrity.  At a minimum, this means that farmers [...]

Register Online at www.umkc.edu/commu or call 816-235-1407.  2312A Four Season Gardens Grow food, not lawns. Grow your own vegetables year round. Vegetable varieties and methods for fall and winter gardens. Learn to use cover crops to build soil and reduce pests. 1 session Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:00 PM – 9:00PM;  Hands on workshop Saturday [...]

    For the fourth year in partnership with the Squash Blossom Food Cooperative, Food Not Lawns is offering KState Organic sweet potato slips. This year we have 3 varieties available: Beauregard          orange skin and flesh NC Japanese        purple skin white flesh — great for fries and mashing. O’Henry                white skin and flesh — great [...]

  You can grow so much more than tomatoes and peppers in your yard! Fruit trees and nuts can be integrated into your landscape, providing good food for years and years with minimal maintenance. This workshop will focus on choosing, planting, and maintaining fruit and nut trees for a “food forest.” Thursday, June 23 · [...]

  Learn how to mimic the structure and function of forest ecosystems using sheet mulching, layering, planting patterns, species diversity, guilds, species selection, and more in this introductory workshop on small scale Urban Forest Garden design.. Bring $15 for resource CD. CONVENER: Steve Mann CLASS FEE: $9.00 Sec. A: 1 session(s); Beginning Saturday, June 25, 2011 2:00 PM;  Rethink Energy, [...]