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Cultivate Kansas City

Contact Name & Title: Daniel Dermitzel or Katherine Kelly
Address: Cultivate Kansas City, Box 6043
City, State & Zipcode: Kansas City, Kansas 66106
Phone: 913-231-4484 or 913-515-2426
Email: info@cultivatekc.org
Web Address: www.cultivatekc.org

Project Description:

Cultivate Kansas City was founded in the fall of 2004 to promote urban farming in the Kansas City Metro area.  It provides urban farmers and would-be farmers from different backgrounds and nationalities with individualized support in all phases of farm development, including site selection, infrastructure development, crop production, organic certification, marketing and business development.  Currently Cultivate Kansas City is working and building relationships with immigrant farmers from Asia and East Africa.  It also operates the Kansas City Community Farm, a 2-acre urban demonstration farm producing certified organic vegetables for sale through a CSA and at a farmers’ market.

In our work with both immigrant and US-born farmers, we hope to draw on their diverse skills and experiences by inviting them to become active participants in making urban farms stronger, developing new and appropriate technologies and formulating local policy in support of urban agriculture.

Cultivate Kansas City is also working with Professor of Sociology, Dana Collins, at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, on a research project investigating the sociological dimensions of the immigrant farming experience. For more information on this project please contact Professor Collins at 816-235-2525 or collinsdan@umkc.edu.

Mission: 

Communities Served: Urban farmers of all nationalities            

Languages: Cultivate Kansas City's staff and board members are fluent in English, Hmong, Korean, Spanish and German.  Other language resources are available if needed.

Agricultural Production Areas: All types of vegetables, herbs and honey; ertified organic production; high-tunnel production of greens, tomatoes and other high-value crops.

Areas of Expertise:  Farmer Training Programs and Workshops, Business Planning, Business Development, Marketing, Grant Writing for Agricultural Producers, Organic Production, Community Development.

Useful Resources & Materials: N/A

Mission: Cultivate Kansas City’s mission is to strengthen local communities through urban agriculture; to promote small scale organic farming in Greater Kansas City by operating a demonstration vegetable farm; and to provide educational opportunities and technical assistance to people interested in small-scale entrepreneurial food production. The Urban Farmers Development Project aims to help farmers make their farms more productive, and to increase the number of people engaged in urban agriculture in Kansas City for the benefit of all residents.
Sponsoring Organization: Cultivate Kansas City
Immigrant Communities Served: Urban farmers of all nationalities
Languages Spoken: Cultivate Kansas City's staff and board members are fluent in English, Hmong, Korean, Spanish and German. Other language resources are available if needed.
Agricultural Crops & Products: All types of vegetables, herbs and honey; ertified organic production; high-tunnel production of greens, tomatoes and other high-value crops.
Areas of Expertise: Farmer Training Programs and Workshops, Business Planning, Business Development, Marketing, Grant Writing for Agricultural Producers, Organic Production, Community Development.
Useful Resources and Materials: N/A