Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance

Locally Grown Produce Subscriptions

From a Farmers Cooperative

Serving the Northeast Kansas Area

From the farmer, to you...directly.

ROLLING PRAIRIE
UPDATES

I have been a bit slow getting the newsletters up. Here is last week's and the week before. The Lawrence sites also had a special newsletter because they started a week earlier.

We are adding subscribers at the Lawrence Economy Bag and Merc Pickup. If you are interested in joining contact

the site coordinators to get on the list. Please visit the signup page (or view signup form as .pdf file) for more information about how to join the waiting list.

Read about Rolling Prairie and our new association with the new sustainable agriculture certificate program at Johnson County Community College on The Ethicurean.

If you have any comments please feel free to email them to me.

How does it work?

What would be in the bags (list of seasonal produce)?

Newsletter Archive

~East Stone House Creek Farm~

~Hoyland Farm~

~Maier's Farm~

~Sandheron Farm

~Wakarusa Valley Farm~

~Conway's Produce~

~Buller Family Farm~

Sixteen Seasons and Still Growing

Rolling 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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