Excited to get out in the garden this Wednesday! Okay, for this time (April 16nd), we've got a high of 75 with a 24% chance of .02 inches of rain (sprinkly) in the afternoon. Pretty good weather to be getting some fresh air and exersize in! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuff available to take home: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greens: Deadnettle, dandelion, cleavers, violets, lamb’s quarter Herbs: Mint, lavender, wild chives, wild bergamot, wild sage Seeds, Starter Trays & Pots Homemade Chocolate & Mead Wood Chips! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available garden tasks: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transplanting Clearing out brush Mulching Weeding Seed Starting Chipping branches General cleanup ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What to bring: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gloves Any tool relevant to a task you want to work on Weather appropriate clothing Food dish for the potluck if you’d like A board game you like ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Activity/Skillshare: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoga for gardeners and loving-kindness (Metta) meditation, led by Dylan! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dinner: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Salad with wild greens Fried cubed potatoes Maybe LizZ will make some food too!

Join us for gardening, companionship, and free food.

More info here (sorry to link back to FB!):
www.facebook.com/events/66842...

Price: FREE! Donations are accepted. Date: Friday, March 14th OR Saturday, March 29th Time: 6pm OR 8pm Address: 5041 NE Marvin Rd, KCMO --------------------------------------------------------- Dietary Info: -------------------------------------------------------- Gluten Free - Anything either already is GF, or can be made GF. Vegetarian - make sure to get the vegetarian options! Nuts: There are nuts in the yogurt&granola and the huevos rancheros, the rest should be fine. Note: We DO NOT make any guarantees about cross-contamination. --------------------------------------------------------- Menu: --------------------------------------------------------- Choose 3 of the following per person: -- Sweet Potato Hashbrown Benedict w/ lion’s mane ‘crab’cake & hollandaise (GF, Vegetarian) -- Rosemary & Brown-butter Biscuits w/ venison sausage gravy -or- chestnut mushroom gravy (GF, vegetarian) -- Huevos Rancheros w/ beef chorizo, feta, spicy anaheim salsa, & black beans (GF) -- Aroniaberry Sourdough Waffle w/ lavender maple syrup (Vegetarian, GF Optional) -- Homemade Yogurt w/ homemade granola & homemade aronia raisins (GF, vegetarian) (did we mention it’s homemade?) -- Scotch Egg Benedict: breaded & sausage- wrapped softboiled egg w/ Berry Jam on a sweet potato english muffin (GF optional)

You are invited to what is is now a tradition: Breakfast for Dinner! As always, this dinner is almost entirely locally sourced.
Reservations Required!
To reserve, head to:
bit.ly/locavore28

More info in the "alt text"!

In the midst of the 6th mass extinction event, we stand firmly opposed to an administration that is hampering our local food security & disrupting our community resilience. This is the opposite direction we need to be headed to survive the future. Folks, local food needs your help now more than ever. The main things you can do to help: 🤝Volunteer: Food orgs that lost their grants are cutting staff, and need help. This isn't just intensive farm labor, but also administrative tasks as well, such as help manning the farmers market or outreach programs. 🤝Contribute money: Whether through donation or purchase of goods, money is what is directly lacking. Go to your local farmer's market. 🤝Spread the word: Knowledge is power. Talk to your friends about this. Create a plan on how to get and distribute food. Invite your neighbor over for dinner and start that awkward conversation. 🤝Strengthen community: Create a resilience plan for your friends and family. *Make sure* local food is part of that plan. Bring friends with you to volunteer. Start a garden with your friends (a two for one)! Please take the time to read the two posts these images came from. I'll post links to them in the comments (just so this post's reach isn't hampered). After that, If you want to help but don't know where to start, send us a message and we can hook you up. We are stronger together. Stay safe out there, friends!

Who's had *enough* politics over the last few weeks? Sorry folks, but even though we don't usually do this, it's time to get political.

Two KC organizations dear to our hearts have had funding cut: Ivanhoe Farmers' Market and KC Farm School at Gibbs Road. (Rest of post in the "alt text")...

"The move toward a local food economy is not just about freshness and food miles and carbon footprint and organic matter. It is about all those things, but it's also about the deep human desire for connection. For honor. To be in reciprocity with the gifts that are given to you."

Have you read the new Robin Wall Kimmerer book yet? What a fantastic and hopeful book. We loved her shoutout to the local food movement!

Buy local instead!

Superb!

Join us for our next underground dinner parties! As always, enjoy locally sourced food, interesting company, and good vibes! Reservations required: bit.ly/locavore27 Location: 5041 NE Marvin Rd, KCMO Dietary Info: Gluten Free - Choose the pho & bahn mi tacos. The dessert's already GF. Vegetarian - make sure to get the vegetarian options! Vegan: The poke can be made vegan on request, by omitting butter. Dairy-free: Butter is the only dairy in this dinner. Choose the vegan poke. Invite Text: LOCAVORE Underground Dinner Party Feb. 22nd & March First Reservations Required Arrive 6 or 8 pm Donations Accepted! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Appetizers ------------------------------------------------------------------- Pho bowl beef oxtail, groundhog bone broth, marinated spaghetti squash & black garlic (df, gf) -OR- Sourdough pine bark Potstickers chestnut mushrooms, cabbage & carrot filling w/ aronia-soy dipping sauce (vegan) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Entrees ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bahn Mi Tacos pork belly, beef paté, live green kimchi on Yoli tortillas -OR- Poke Bowl Marinated winter squash, umami lion’s mane, homemade pickled ginger, tempura pickled daikon, sprouts (vegetarian) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dessert ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mochi donut with local red bean filling (gf, vegan) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Drinks ------------------------------------------------------------------- Homemade fermented beverages Perilla, tulsi & goldenrod tea To reserve, head to: bit.ly/locavore27

Join us for our next underground dinner parties! As always, enjoy locally sourced food, interesting company, and good vibes!

Reservations required:
bit.ly/locavore27

Location:
5041 NE Marvin Rd, KCMO

Join us for elevated fare and down-to-earth vibe.

As always, this meal is almost entirely locally sourced.

Reservations required! To reserve head to:
bit.ly/locavore26

Dietary information:
GF - all items are GF or can be made GF.
Vegetarian - make sure to select the vegetarian options.

Question: what kind of food is it? Answer: we love doing fun stuff and exploring new things, so our menus are eclectic. See for yourself by scrolling through the invites in our posts. 1/2 of our founding team is gluten-free, so we always have good GF options. Often, we also have vegetarian and vegan options. And not that bullshit where they just substitute processed garbage - real, intentionally crafted options.

Questin: how much food do you serve? Answer: we usually serve enough that there are several people who can't eat it all. Which is great, because I eat what they don't want. It's not weird, it's waste reduction. Delicious, delicious waste reduction. Imagine you are at a medium-fancy restaurant. Not fancy enough that the host gives you snide looks of you come I wearing jeans, but more like a good farm-to-table. You get a salad, appetizer, entree, dessert and drink and end up paying about $60. It's about that much food.

Q: I can donate money or time? Whaaaat? Answer: we all need to pay bills, so we are grateful for monetary donations. However, your donation doesn't have to be money! We are standing up against the profit-driven market economy we find ourselves stuck in. We love the idea of gift economy, and believe people should have access to high quality local food no matter what they can offer. We also run Locavore Regenerative Farm and the Growcery suburban farms. There are ALWAYS projects going on and help wanted. Want to help us plant or weed? We'd love that! Have any skills? Carpentry, marketing, construction, photography, sewing, and many other talents could be helpful to us.

Question: how much should I donate? Answer: when we first started, we had a reccomend donation of $10. We've had other reccomended amounts over the years - but really, we want to do away with any expectation of amount. Our events are F - R - E - E. If you wanna donate whatever spare change is in your pocket, that's fine. If you were totally blown away, and compelled to contribute your life savings of $300, then great! You can even donate in multiples od pi. Just don't donate negative dollars. That would be bad.

Part 2 of our FAQ!

Locavore KC Faq: what is locavore?

Hello! We're Dylan and LizZ. Sometimes, we have dinner parties or share meals with friends. Friends, ever supportive, may donate funds if they'd like to help cover the cost of the meal. We would like YOU to be a friend We share meals with. Get it? Good!

Our mission is to connect you to the natural world in perhaps the most direct way possible: by eating, and thus becoming it (you are what you eat, after all). We regularly host underground dinner parties & other events. Come by our suburban farmhouse and enjoy our local, seasonal food & company of interesting people. Are you a rebel? A foodie? A living, breathing person? Join the club and have some grub!

Q: Where are you located? A: We host most dinners at Better Future Farm, our home, in the suburbs of northland KC. Sometimes, we have them at local urban farms, calling them "Table to farm" dinners.

What is Locavore? Well, it's a bit hard to describe us in 300 characters or less. So I made this handy FAQ! (Part 1/2)