04/10/2023
Just a reminder that this Saturday 9-12 will be our last week at The Merc Co+op in Lawrence. Thank you Lawrence for your amazing support!
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Growing Good
Like so many other people we try to do our part for the environment and local businesses. We recycle, buy local, try to minimize our food waste, and compost in our backyard. We volunteer with local community gardens, and started growing some of our own vegetables.
In September 2019, we attended a local Climate Summit and heard Paul Hawken speak about Drawdown and what we can do globally to solve the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. Food waste and the related production of greenhouse gas emissions from food breakdown was the 3 rd highest cause of greenhouse gas emissions. This was a revelation and a wake-up call to do more.
We began Food Cycle KC in October of that same year. Our goal was modest, to reduce the amount of organic waste from Shawnee and Johnson County that would make its way into the landfill, transform that waste into compost and provide it to local community gardens and urban farms. To close the food life cycle in our community.
As we grew that idea and began looking for urban farms to partner with, it became clear that, while there was a rich culture of urban farming growing on the Missouri side of Kansas City, there was not an equivalent movement on the Kansas side.
