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Rolling Prairie Farmers
Alliance
Locally Grown Produce Subscriptions
From a Farmers Cooperative
Serving the Northeast Kansas Area
From the farmer, to
you...directly.
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ROLLING PRAIRIE
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What's coming in October? Apples, greens, salad mix, winter squash, sweet potatoes and the end of peppers and tomatoes Newsletter for the week of Sept 29. (Requires a .pdf viewer like Adobe Acrobat.) |
~Maier's
Farm~
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What would
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Fifteen 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 fifteen years ago.
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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 six 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 conscentious 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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