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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 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.) |
~East Stone House Creek Farm~~Hoyland Farm~~Maier's Farm~~Sandheron Farm~Wakarusa Valley Farm~~Conway's Produce~
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Fifteen 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 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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