We inspire people of all ages, ancestries, and abilities on-farm, hands-on to connect to land and soil, food, community, and opportunity.
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Regenerative practices, in organic production for thirty years.
10/17/2025
It takes many hands to make our on-farm events happen. If you're looking for a different kind of volunteer opportunity with us, we need volunteers for event prep and day-of hosting for our upcoming Community Workshop on November 8 and Community Table event on December 6.
Fall field trip season is in full swing, and we are just having the best time welcoming schools from across KC on-farm hands-on!
From the ecosystem of the farm to the birds, bees, and winged things there is so much to explore. You may ask, what's our favorite part? Well, we have so many!
It's the amazing questions that the kids ask! It's how they always find the unexpected and show so much curiosity as we show them around. It's being with the kids in the field as they get their hands dirty and learn to work with tools and move their bodies with purpose! We just love the moments when the kids see how much they can accomplish together.
We always say "many hands make light work," but it becomes reality for everyone when a group moves a giant silage tarp or picks up picnic tables together like they were made of feathers. The farm is truly a place to see collective work in action, where we can see how much better the world can be when we work together.
We can't wait to see you and your group on-farm, hands-on!
We’re leaning into the fall fun here on the farm as we harvest by moonlight (even if it’s the daytime), find pumpkin-shaped tomatoes, and dress up as veggies to hand out treats during the recent Turner Days parade. Don’t miss out on the fun, come visit the KC Farm School Farmers Market TOMORROW, October 15, 3-7 PM, at Common Ground at 2443 S. 42nd St, KCK, located across the street from Gibbs Road Farm.
The Gibbs Road Farm booth offers okra, eggplant, sweet and spicy peppers, jujubes, swiss chard, herbs, cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, daikon radishes, plus pantry staples at the General Store. PLUS! The Butternut Squash have made their grand entrance! Farmer friend Chris is bringing bushels to choose from for all your autumn recipes.
Mac McSpadden also return to explore printmaking hands-on with found and foraged objects from around the farm, so bring the kids and come see what new fall treasures you can make.
Our favorite food and goods vendors join us too:
Purple Onion Flour Shop fresh bread
Glass Heart Homestead flowers & stained glass
Grasshopper Urban Farm produce & bouquets
My Little Dumpster Shop jewelry & keychains
Likeable Sewing Threads clothing & bags
Karl Clan Soaps and lotion bars
3Dia 3D Printing 3D printed toys & charms
And welcome to a new vendor tomorrow! Health God natural teas & soaps
Bring your MO & KS Senior Nutrition Vouchers and make sure you’ve picked up your match coupons! As always, the Gibbs Road Farm stand is Pay What You’re Able.
10/13/2025
You may have seen it...at FARM FEST, at the Turner Days Parade, at the 2025 Lawrence EV Show, or just getting us to market every Wednesday. If you haven't seen it...here it is!
We're so grateful to Kansas Department of Agriculture for the funds to purchase this amazing ELECTRIC BOX TRUCK! This Chevrolet BrightDrop EV now lives at KC Farm School and will be shared with other market growers and value-added producers to make moving food around and vicinity much easier and with less emissions.
Shout out to Healing Soils Foundation for supplying the bridge grant that made the purchase possible.
As always, much love to Chico Sierra for the original artwork that we use in all the ways!
Need to move some food? Let's talk!
10/10/2025
Need some tools for your fall yard work? Don't buy-borrow!
Our tool lending library has rakes, a battery powered lawnmower, a string trimmer, and WAAAY more. And, as with all of our programming, membership is Pay What You're Able. Sign up to become a member and start borrowing tools here: https://www.kcfarmschool.org/lending-libraries.
Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting the Manhattan Virtual Academy for a field trip on the farm. Not only was it a joy to share knowledge with them of how our food systems work and think through all of their wonderful questions, but seeing them enjoy each other's company in person was wonderful! We explored all the things that have to happen for our favorite foods to be made and learned how the food on the farm goes from being a tiny seed to a veggie on our plate. Then we got to wade into the action by getting our hands dirty weeding the asparagus that will feed us again this spring.
And if all that wasn't beautiful enough, we got this beautiful photo and a thank you card from them. When we say that we can't wait to see you on farm hands on, we mean it! Thank you so much Manhattan Virtual Academy for bringing your students and your enthusiasm to the farm!
10/07/2025
Now that the temperatures are FINALLY dropping, the farm AND market are giving some serious fall vibes. We’ve got mushrooms growing on logs, migrating monarchs covering the flower paths, chickens enjoying the recent rain and all kinds of color and texture in our harvest!
Why don’t you stop by TOMORROW, October 8, 3-7 PM to feel some fall for yourself at KC Farm School Farmers Market at Common Ground at 2443 S. 42nd St, KCK, located across the street from Gibbs Road Farm.
The Gibbs Road Farm booth will have okra, eggplant, sweet and spicy peppers, jujubes, swiss chard, herbs, cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, daikon radishes, plus pantry staples at the General Store.
At 4:30 pm, join our dear farm friend, EagleBear, from the Southwest Dancers to hear Native story-telling and participate in pow-wow dance demonstrations, all-ages welcome!
You’ll also find local food and goods vendors, including:
Purple Onion Flour Shop fresh bread
The Tamale Kitchen tamales
Glass Heart Homestead flowers & stained glass
Grasshopper Urban Farm produce & bouquets
My Little Dumpster Shop jewelry & keychains
Suds Refillery refillable soaps & detergents
Creative Finding organic body lotion
Karl Clan Soaps and lotion bars
3Dia 3D Printing 3D printed toys & charms
Bring your MO & KS Senior Nutrition Vouchers and make sure you’ve picked up your match coupons! As always, the Gibbs Road Farm stand is Pay What You’re Able.
10/06/2025
It’s grant reporting season, and the KC F.A.R.M.E.R.S. Coalition is asking for your help!
As a program funded through the USDA Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Development Program, we're looking to collect data that demonstrates our program's community impact.
If you’ve participated in any of our events or are a Coalition Member, please take a few minutes to complete our Biannual Survey. Your feedback helps shape the future of our work.
Coalition Members who complete the survey will receive $50 added to their next quarterly stipend (processed after November 31st), but will need to track this activity using our usual event attendance and activity tracker form here: https://forms.gle/L1eGyFXFULfKp3S1A.
Kaw Valley Farm Tour is happening! We’re on the tour for the first time ever- come see us and visit a dozen or so farms between here and Lawrence. Today and on Sunday, too!
Also…be sure to catch Midwest Soul VegFest-
Going on all day and on Sunday, too!
Catch our own Ellingsworth in a panel discussion at 1pm!
Whatever you do this weekend- get outside! Move around. Have some fun.
Youth ages 13+ may volunteer independently with a signed guardian waiver. No experience necessary.
Put on your closed toed shoes, grab your reusable water bottle, dress for the weather, and come join us!
Our volunteer coordinator is happy to provide verification of completed service hours upon request. Volunteering question? Email [email protected].
10/02/2025
October Ag Explorers kicks off THIS SATURDAY so don't forget to sign up! We are going to have a blast exploring all of the amazing fall celebrations happening in our Kansas City community.
Come explore Diwali, the festival of light, with us as we taste the spices of Indian curry and learn the traditions that make it special to those who celebrate. Next, come celebrate Dia de los Mu***os with a very special guest Educator from Mattie Rhodes as we use our very own marigolds grown in the Ag Explorer Bed in our craft. We'll also highlight the Asian Moon Festival and explore the Origins of Halloween later in the month as we prepare for Treats On the Farm during our farmers market on October 29th!
And of course, it wouldn't be Ag explorers without agriculture! We will be clearing out our bed as we harvest and prepare it for winter garlic planting. There is nothing more rewarding than coming back to Ag Explorers in the spring and seeing the garlic that the children planted coming up!
Kaw Valley Farm Tour is THIS weekend and we're one of four KCK farms on the tour this year. Come see us for a low-key farm walkabout and brand new community garden tour, visit with our beekeeping friend Jon Chitwood, sample our produce, purchase some swag, then...go see the other KCK farms on the tour including USA Duck Team, The Garden at Dogwood Forest, and Rowe Ridge Vineyard & Winery on your way to all the farms west toward and around Lawrence.
Every farm is so different; a true expression of those working on the land. Farm tours are an opportunity to peak into another's dream, and see what might have been impossible...flourishing!
We'll be on-site on Saturday, 9-5, and on Sunday 11-4.
Come see us!
Learn more and purchase tickets, https://www.kawvalleyfarmtour.com/the-farms
You can also purchase tickets ($15) upon arrival.
If you are only visiting us, then no charge.
It's a new day with a new Kaw Valley Farm Tour countdown tour spot highlight! KC Farm School at Gibbs Road (Produce, Bees & Honey, Educational & Agritourism) - "Explore this inspirational urban farm school with orchards, native plant gardens, production fields, 6000’ greenhouse, wildlands, farm incubators, a community garden, and a small flock of chickens and bee hives." For more information on our October 4th and 5th self-guided tour, its tour spots, and to get your tickets, go to www.kawvalleyfarmtour.org.
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With Wyandotte County and metro-wide support, KC Farm School at Gibbs Road is presenting the natural world to children and community youth, inviting them outside to connect to land and soil. Agriculture is inserted into their experience of math, science, art and literature while developing farm skills. The farm is a laboratory for their learning, the soil is their guide.
Through our collaborations, we are developing curriculum for pre-k through high school in regenerative agriculture, culinary arts, waste management, and climate resilience. Lessons to Go are being developed for students unable to visit the farm, as is job skills training for students interested in gaining skills to carry them to their future vocation, ag related or not. Our systems of berms and swales, native meadows, perennial tree fruit crops, gathering space and a wildland playground provide opportunity to climb and to explore.
We hire area youth as farm crew. Learn more about the positions we currently have available here. We are a host farm for the Growing Growers Apprenticeship Program and encourage our farm crew to apply for an apprenticeship. Scholarships are available.
Hope lives here. Job skills training began in January 2019 with USD#202 students with special needs and has since expanded to USD#500. As farming skills develop, we can help the individual find summer jobs and internships within the metro’s extensive farming community. Benefiting from their on farm, hands on experiences, the young adults will find many options available that lead to a happy productive life.
Collaborating with Cornerstones of Care’s Build Trybe, we provide job skills training to youth aging-out of the foster care system. We host Liberty Academy students weekly, and are beginning to work with the Shawnee Mission School District. Learn to Earn interns from the Historic Midtown Neighborhood Association of KCK and Youth Volunteer Corp joins us for summer day camps. We are creating our own day camps for the summer of 2020.
We host many workshops for adults and weekly volunteer opportunities for families. If you’re interested in sharing your skills through a workshop, please begin with submitting this interest form.
Serving on the Advisory Board for the Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources CTE pathway, we are working to develop Kansas state-certified vocational training curriculum for local students. Sitting on the Advisory Board to Johnson County Community College’s Department of Sustainability and the Growing Growers Kansas City Organizing Committee, we work to create the bridge into adulthood for the area’s youth exploring agriculture.
Providing on farm, hands on experiences particularly to its Wyandotte County youth and community, we aim to alter the trajectory of many lives bringing hope, opportunity and resiliency. Our farm’s food and this project will contribute to creating a more food secure metro and better health outcomes to those who participate.
