KC Farm School at Gibbs Road

KC Farm School at Gibbs Road 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.

Our Let's Grow Wyandotte program- seeds, plants, support, and workshops for backyard growers- now in its sixth year has ...
06/07/2026

Our Let's Grow Wyandotte program- seeds, plants, support, and workshops for backyard growers- now in its sixth year has helped over 1,200 neighbors in Wyandotte County (and beyond) start and care for their own gardens. This year, we're hosting more workshops for members with topics requested by members.

Our workshop on Saturday was enthusiastically received by many who are considering raising rabbits for meat. In an excellent presentation by Becky Steinhauser of New Beginning Farm, attendees learned how to choose rabbit breads, about their care, cages v colony, how to harvest and preserve their meat. We're grateful to Becky for sharing her 40 years experience and her time with us.

Farm friend, Jacob Chapman of Moose Paw Farm presented our rainwater catchment systems- using gutters on a high tunnel with IBC tote collection and a rain barrel attached to home gutters. Jacob co-led a SARE grant that installed these systems so he was also able to discuss the solar pump we use to move the water from the totes, through filters, and to our tunnel irrigation system.

Finally, we toured Gibbs Road Farm and the community garden at Common Ground and received a tomato trellising lesson from 5-year crew member, Gabe Diaz. We use the Florida Basket Weave system, but Gabe shared there are many ways to trellis tomatoes!

Interested in Let's Grow Wyandotte, sign up today!
https://www.kcfarmschool.org/lets-grow-wyco
What to learn something in particular? Request it for our next workshop, here-
https://forms.gle/nKUgmCRfpKZRdSDR9

Looking for a workshop this week? We've got another one coming up on Tuesday! Our collaborative, the KC F.A.R.M.E.R.S. Coalition will present 'On Farm Education' with experts in the field including Growing Growers Kansas City, Giving Grove, Manheim Paseo Learning Garden, Sacred Earth Arts, and our own Alicia Ellingsworth. Join us to learn how on-farm education is done in Kansas City and how you might jump in to bring kiddos on-farm, hands-on at your farm, and take away templates to get your own programming going! Register here- https://forms.gle/kvN924EUq8VgA32Q8

It's up to us- all of us- to create tomorrow better than today. Want to jump in? Join us! [email protected]




The first week of summer programming is always wild and wonderful and this year it was all that and more! Our whole team...
06/05/2026

The first week of summer programming is always wild and wonderful and this year it was all that and more! Our whole team jumps in to facilitate Jr Growers farm camp and Farmers on the Rise youth apprenticeship, and the team supports each other, grows together, and together figures out how to accomplish what sometimes feels impossible.

Imagine this- ten eager 10 year-olds descending onto the farm at the very same time ten youth show up for their first-ever job at the same time our crew is harvesting hundreds of pounds of radishes, turnips, Napa cabbage, and the first of the potatoes all while we’re planning workshops for emerging growers, aggregating their produce, and sending it off for sale while gathering permits and supplies for construction at Common Ground and maintaining the bike maze and walking path there.

Yep. That’s our first week of summer.
Just the way we like it.
You’re always welcome to join the fun around here!

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Back by popular demand! Farm Stop Jumble Swap! Bring what you don't need anymore and take (for FREE) what you can't live...
06/04/2026

Back by popular demand! Farm Stop Jumble Swap! Bring what you don't need anymore and take (for FREE) what you can't live without!

During our farm stop market on Wednesday, June 10, 3- 6pm.

You may bring gently-used, clean, and carriable items beginning on Tuesday, June 9. Take to the designated spot at Common Ground, 2443 S. 42nd Street. No drop offs at the greenhouse, please. No food items, please. You many also bring items all day on Wednesday and until 6pm during the swap.

Jumble swaps work because we know there is abundance! We know that when we all share what we have, we can all have what we need. Jumble swaps work because this community cares. Jumble swaps are smart because we are trying to keep items out of the landfill and to starve-out fast (disposable) fashion.

Let's work together in creating tomorrow better than today! and today, that begins with a jumble swap!

June is here and we’ve got a lot more helping and learning hands on-farm with us for the summer. Our Jr. Growers campers...
06/02/2026

June is here and we’ve got a lot more helping and learning hands on-farm with us for the summer. Our Jr. Growers campers, Farmers On The Rise apprentices, and visiting volunteer groups are working alongside Crew while learning about regenerative agriculture, where food comes from, and how strong they are as they help prep beds, plant, w**d, harvest, and compost.

There’s a pride we see in their faces, like we see in our own, as they learn how their work is helping feed our community. We hope you can feel that too when you enjoy our veggies.

Come enjoy the harvest from so many hands at our FARM STOP this week:
Tomorrow, June 3, 3–7 PM at Common Ground, 2443 S 42nd St, KCK
AND NOW Thursday and Saturday, 9 AM–1 PM inside the Blue Farmhouse, 4223 Gibbs Road, KCK 66106

This week’s harvest includes bagged mixed greens, rainbow chard, romaine, kale, collards, napa and mini cabbages, garlic scapes, radishes, turnips, beets, broccoli, asparagus, rhubarb, and herb bunches of mint, oregano, dill, parsley, lemon balm, flowering sage, and thyme.

There’s still time to get your summer plants in too. We’ve got tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, eggplant, herbs, and native plants to choose from. Need a whole flat of tomato plants for your canning dreams? Come make a deal!

We’ll also have General Store staples from:
Sourdough bread from Au Contraire Bakery
Infused vinegars and oils from Wild Ivy Herb Farm
Ferments from Fair Share Farm
Homemade soap from Faye Farms
Flour and pasta from Guardian Grains
Local and chemical free eggs from The Kansas City Food Hub

Tomorrow’s FARM STOP will also include local vendors:
Hoagie Wolf spices and rubs
Purple Onion Flour Shop with fresh baked bread and pastries
El Centro Inc. hispanic community resources
Creative Findings

CSA Farm Share members can pick up shares Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday. As always, we proudly accept Pay-What-You’re-Able, SNAP, and Double Up Food Bucks.

Looking for summer experiences for your family where y'all can get hands in the soil, move your bodies, make art, and le...
05/30/2026

Looking for summer experiences for your family where y'all can get hands in the soil, move your bodies, make art, and learn where your food comes from?

There's still time to enroll for our June session of Ag Explorers!

Our Ag Explorer families will meet each Saturday in June from 9-11 AM, and includes guided experiences for young kids (we recommend ages 4-8, but feel free to bring younger siblings too!), like:
🐓 Chicken care
🌿 Growing food in our education garden beds
🎨 Themed activities (art, science, cooking, and more!)
🥕 Opportunities to connect with food, soil, and community

Every session is rooted in curiosity, creativity, and care for the land. Come grow and play with us this June at the farm!

Learn more + sign up at�www.kcfarmschool.org/ag-explorers.

This week, we're celebrating opportunities to make joining us on-farm, hands-on more accessible for everyone. We recentl...
05/29/2026

This week, we're celebrating opportunities to make joining us on-farm, hands-on more accessible for everyone. We recently received a grant from the Gould Foundation that helped us purchase new adaptive tools, and then long-time community volunteers and farm friends (Paula, Payton, & Cherie) built us a new wheelchair-height standing garden bed for our Common Ground Community Garden! Thank you!

We've got a lot of work (AND FUN) to do this summer, and we have individual, family and group volunteer opportunities for folx of all ages, ancestries and abilities available each week. You can learn more and sign up at www.kcfarmschool.org/volunteer-with-us! Got questions? Email [email protected]!

Missed picking up our veggies and other local goods yesterday? We’ve got you. Farm Stop Market is OPEN today! Come to th...
05/28/2026

Missed picking up our veggies and other local goods yesterday? We’ve got you. Farm Stop Market is OPEN today! Come to the blue house to get your groceries!
4223 Gibbs Road, KCK

As our harvests of greens keep on stacking up, we now get to celebrate the arrival of our bush cherries! These native bu...
05/26/2026

As our harvests of greens keep on stacking up, we now get to celebrate the arrival of our bush cherries! These native bushes give us tart little fruits that are perfect for baking, jams and preserves. You know you want some!

We’ll have our bush cherries AND SO MUCH MORE at our farm stop tomorrow, May 27, 3-7 PM at Common Ground, located 2443 S 42nd St, KCK.

What more, you ask? Well, how about fresh produce from our Gibbs Road Farm fields, including mixed greens for salad and cooking, rainbow chard, romaine lettuce heads, all kinds of kale, collards, napa and mini cabbages, garlic scapes, snap peas, radishes, turnips, broccoli, asparagus, rhubarb, and herb bunches of mint, oregano, dill, parsley, lemon balm, flowering sage, and thyme!

We’ll also have a selection of General Store staples:
Fresh sourdough bread from Au Contraire Bakery
Infused vinegars and oils from Wild Ivy Herb Farm
Ferments from Fair Share Farm
Raw milk cheese from Skyview Farm
Homemade soap from Faye Farms
Flour and pasta from Guardian Grains
Eggs from The Kansas City Food Hub
And we still have a selection of beautiful plant starts for your spring garden from our Quell-Davis Community Greenhouse.

Of course, our CSA Farm Share members can pick up their share with us, and as always, we proudly accept Pay-What-You're-Able for our veggies as well as SNAP and Double Up Food Bucks.

This land FEEDS people: body, mind and soul. From welcoming Urban Produce Push KC to glean our fields this weekend to so...
05/19/2026

This land FEEDS people: body, mind and soul. From welcoming Urban Produce Push KC to glean our fields this weekend to so that every bit that we grow can feed people, to teaching our Ag Explorers and Farmers On The Rise about the joys (as well as the hard work and skills needed) of growing food, and even enjoying impromptu lunch concerts from traveling musicians and friends, Bandits On the Run, all the way from Brooklyn, NYC.

So, TOMORROW, May 20, 3-7 PM, at Common Ground, located 2443 S 42nd St, KCK, we hope you’ll come to our farm stop for the freshest produce, including: salad mix, romaine, snap peas, garlic scapes, rhubarb, asparagus, sprouting broccoli, mizuna, rainbow chard, napa cabbage, mini round cabbage, red russian kale, green curly kale, lacinato kale, collard greens, radishes, turnips, parsley, dill, mint, oregano, and lemon balm, BUT STAY for the community we’re building together.

We’ll also have a selection of General Store staples:
Fresh sourdough bread from Au Contraire Bakery
Infused vinegars and oils from Wild Ivy Herb Farm
Ferments from Fair Share Farm
Homemade soap from Faye Farm
Flour and pasta from Guardian Grains
Eggs from The Kansas City Food Hub
And we still have a selection of beautiful plant starts for your spring garden from our Quell-Davis Community Greenhouse.

Of course, our CSA Farm Share members can pick up their share with us, and as always, we proudly accept Pay-What-You're-Able for our veggies as well as SNAP and Double Up Food Bucks.

Summer is on the way! Does your 8-12 year-old have plans to keep them moving, learning and growing? We have a few more s...
05/16/2026

Summer is on the way! Does your 8-12 year-old have plans to keep them moving, learning and growing? We have a few more spots available in our weekly Jr. Grower Summer Camp sessions that run Monday through Thursday, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM in June and July.

Jr. Growers work with farmers and community leaders to learn about regenerative agriculture. They learn how to grow and cook their own food and pick up some serious ag skills. They engage with awesome S.T.E.A.M activities. They sharpen their teamwork, communication and leadership skills, all while create many lasting memories on-farm, hands-on.

Be sure to sign up soon! You can learn more and register at www.kcfarmschool.org/jr-growers.

Have questions about camp? Want to partner with us this summer as a community educator? Email [email protected].

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4223 Gibbs Road
Kansas City, KS
66106

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm

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+19133138456

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