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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 Troost Village Community Garden Sweet Potato potluck Saturday January 14th 7:00pm until 9:00pm
3101 Troost Ave , Reconciliation Services please join us for the fun . http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/331384706873864/
This year Food Not Lawns Kansas City is parterning with Troost Village Community Association http://www.troostvillage.org/ and Society of St. Andrew West http://www.endhunger.org/sosawest.htm
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 energy use. Topics include: whole system design, garden preparation, permaculture principles, water wise gardening, seed saving and free resources (see foodnotlawanskc.org). The Food Not Lawns KC Collaborative has been working to transform Kansas City into a paradise garden one lawn at a time since 2007. 4 sessions Wednesdays March 7,14,21,28 7:00 – 9:00PM UMKC School of Medicine, Theatre C, first floor, 2411 Charlotte, KCMO Register Online at www.umkc.edu/commu or call 816-235-1407
Learn Essential Survival Skills Eradicate your Lawn Grow Food Not Lawns Food Not Lawns Kansas City will have a Hands-on Sheet Mulching/Sweet Potato Harvest Workshop Sunday October 23rd 3 – 5 PM Troost Village Community Garden Linwood & Troost – South West Corner Ecological Footprint
Living Planet Report 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 rice, wheat and barley equal to or surpassing the highest in Japan without ever tilling the ground and without adding either chemical fertilizers or prepared Ruth Stout ‘No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year-Round Mulch Method’ http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2004-02-01/Ruth-Stouts-System.aspx Lee Reich ‘Weedless Gardening’ http://leereich.com/ Patricia Lanza ‘Lasagna Gardening’ http://www.lasagnagardening.com/ Cover Crop Chart http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=20323 Sources: http://www.greencoverseed.com/ http://www.groworganic.com/seeds/cover-crop.html http://www.territorialseed.com/prod_detail_list/cover_crops Compost/Mulch http://www.missouriorganic.com/products.html Mulch from leaves, limbs and brush Kansas City Mo Solid Waste Division has mixed wood mulch (processed from our leaves and brush collection ) available free of charge to the public. During scheduled times, the City also will load mulch into pickup trucks at no cost to residents. The City operates two sites where mulch is available on scheduled Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.: 1815 N. Chouteau Trafficway and I-470 / Raytown Road Site (on the southeast corner of Raytown Road and I-470). These sites are open to the public, residents, businesses and institutions of Kansas City, Mo. For further questions, please call (816) 513-1313. CITY OF LAWRENCE WOOD CHIP SALE 1420 E 11th Street, Lawrence KS (east of 11th and Haskell, over the tracks) CITY OF LAWRENCE COMPOST SALE Thursday-Saturday, 20-22 October 2011, 8:00am-3:00pm (til 4:00 on Sat.) 1420 E 11th Street, Lawrence KS (east of 11th and Haskell, over the tracks) 1 cubic yard will cover 100 sq ft 3” thick Fertilizers from organic sources Soybean meal Alfalfa meal Blood, bone meal Fish emulsion Wood ash, granite dust Manure Compost Rule of thumb for 5% nitrogen #cups = area X .04 ~ .06 4 To 6 lb 100 sqft Get a soil test http://www.agronomy.ksu.edu/soiltesting/p.aspx?tabid=20 http://soilplantlab.missouri.edu/soil/testfees.aspx soil test including heavy metals http://www.umass.edu/soiltest/soil_test_intro.htm 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: 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 are able to control their crops by saving seeds and consumers have the right to know what is in their food. But Monsanto has worked against both of these. It has brought hundreds of lawsuits against farmers for saving their seeds. And it has vigorously opposed labeling foods with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Now Monsanto is using a new tactic. Its “American Farmers Grow Communities” program aims to award $3 million in early 2012 in addition to $4 million distributed in 2011. Intended recipients include urban farming groups, homeless shelters and school garden programs. Monsanto also intends to provide money to local Farmer’s Markets groups promoting local, sustainable agriculture. Yet, organic farming is the polar opposite of industrial agriculture, which is based on monocultures, genetically engineered plants, patenting of life forms, and of course herbicides like Round Up. People have a right to food security: access to a sustainable supply of safe, nutritious foods that is free of toxins and biological hazards. It appears that Monsanto has designed a “feel good” campaign of giving to St. Louis area organizations in hopes that they will refrain from criticizing Monsanto’s aggressive actions to punish farmers and force unlabelled GMOs on the world. Safe Food Action St. Louis urges you to stand with farmers, consumers, food retailers and others who will not let corporate money and PR campaigns compromise our principals. We invite you to speak out for the right of people to know what is in their food and the rights of farmers to choose traditional agricultural practices by signing on to the “Foundations of Agricultural Integrity.” Foundations of Agricultural Integrity 1. We ask Monsanto to cease all legal actions against farmers for saving seed. 2. We ask all organizations and businesses to label all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in any food or food product that they sell or distribute. ________________________________________________________ Individual, Organization or Business _________________________________________________________ Representative for the Organization or Business __________________________________________ Date 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 Aug 6 5223 N Merrimac KCMO 64151 UMKC School of Medicine, Theatre B, first floor, 2411 Charlotte, KCMO, 2310A Ecosystems Management for Urban Food Production Learn about a new model for urban sustainable food production. We’ll explore food production possibilities in the urban forest, abandoned urban lots, yards, commercial lands, roofs and flood plains. We’ll discuss holistic ecology based on managing sustainable urban agriculture systems that protect and restore our place on Earth. Please bring $20 for a reference book (optional 2 sessions Wednesday, August 17, 24 2011 7:00 PM 9:00PM UMKC School of Medicine, Theatre C, first floor, 2411 Charlotte, KCMO 2306A (Fall) Food Not Lawns Grow Food Not 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 energy use. Topics include whole system design, garden preparation, permaculture, water wise gardening, planting and free resources, The Food Not Lawns KC Collaborative has been working to transform Kansas City into a paradise garden one lawn at a time since 2007. 4 sessions Wednesdays October 5, 12, 18, 25 7:00 – 9:00PM UMKC School of Medicine, Theatre C, first floor, 2411 Charlotte, KCMO 2205A (Fall) Cob Oven Construction Workshop Learn wood fired cob oven construction techniques as we build a cob oven at Platte Prairie Farm. We will tap into the flow of resources to repurpose our construction materials. Three construction session and a ‘fire up’ pizza party. Saturdays October 22, 29 November 5, 12 10:00:00 AM – 1:00PM Platte Prairie Farm 5223 N Merrimac KCMO 64151
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 for fries and mashing $2.50/doz plus .50 donation to Food Not Lawns Kansas City for website expenses. Pick up slips at: Troost Village Sweet Potato planting workshop Saturday June 18th 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM. Learn how to plant, grow, harvest and store your sweet potatoes. Troost Village Community Garden Linewood & Troost Sweet potatoes will save are asses some day. Highly nutritious, easy to grow and they can be stored for over a year. Sweet potatoes contain 8-14% sugars, 1-4% protein, 20-26% starch, vitamins A and C. They grow underground and are safe from garden marauders. And the greens are tasty cooked like spinach. Thanks to research by Ted Cary and others at K State Extention we have identified varieties well suited for our region. What makes sweet potatoes so appealing for a Food Not Lawns perspective is their usefulness in lawn eradication and edible landscaping. The beautiful vines form a dense matt that cools the soil and provides a living mulch for large areas. They can be grown in front yards and public spaces without offending lawn enthusiasts. Planting tips from MU Extension bulletin G6368, Growing Sweet Potatoes in Missouri:http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G6368 Plants (slips) are planted three to four nodes deep (3 to 4 inches deep), 9 to 18 inches between plants in rows 36 to 48 inches apart Make sure that there is good soil moisture and use starter fertilizer solution or water after transplanting. The wider the spacing between plants, the faster the sweet potatoes grow or “size up”. Sweet potatoes should be planted on ridges or raised beds (6 to 9 inches high). Raised beds aid in root development and improve soil drainage and aeration. Sweet potatoes do not tolerate waterlogged soils. Avoid planting in fields that were previously in sod because this could result in significant white grub and wireworm problems in the sweet potato planting. Check for these pests and grow daikon radish as a summer cover crop if they are present. Soils that are high in organic matter may not produce quality sweet potatoes. You can create a polyculture patch by adding native flowers and grasses around your sweet potato beds. This will increase diversity and bring in beneficial insects and birds. Sweet potatoes should be rotated with a cover crop to prevent pest buildup. Let’s create a sweet potato Paradise Garden in Kansas City
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.
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