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Rolling Prairie Farmers AllianceLocally Grown Produce Subscriptions From a Farmers Cooperative Serving the Northeast Kansas Area From the farmer, to you...directly.
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ROLLING PRAIRIE If you have any comments please feel free to email them to me. |
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~East Stone House Creek Farm~~Hoyland Farm~~Maier's Farm~~Sandheron Farm~Wakarusa Valley Farm~~Conway's Produce~ ~Buller Family Farm~ |
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Sixteen Seasons and Still GrowingRolling Prairie is the oldest Midwest vegetable cooperative. The original group of farmers joined together in 1994 providing a vegetable subscription service to Lawrence and Kansas City. Over 300 households receive a weekly bag of locally grown produce during the groing season. While not all of our farms are now certified organic, we still follow the same natural, ecologically sustainable, organic practices for growing food we have used since we started sixteen years ago.What is a Farmer's Alliance?Rolling Prairie Farmer's Alliance is a special type of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). We call it a produce subscription service because our customers subscribe to our service for a season's worth of produce. The farmers in the alliance operate as a cooperative, which serves as a kind of insurance policy for the subscribers. The seven farms span four counties in the rolling prairie of Northeast Kansas. If one farm gets frosted, hailed out, flooded, dried up, or attacked by grasshoppers, chances are others can take up the slack. We become more efficient in our marketing efforts, which leaves us more time to concentrate on growing food without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We occasionally draw products from other local farmers to add variety. While this produce isn't always organic, we do our best to make sure it is grown by conscientious local farmers. We have been doing this longer than the vast majority of CSA's in the country, and Rolling Prairie is fairly unique as well in its cooperative structure. |
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