Urbavore Urban Farm

Urbavore Urban Farm Rebel Farmers, Adventurous Eaters! Celebrating local food, culture and community. Brooke Salvaggio and Dan Heryer. Former owners of the one and only BADSEED!
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An urban farmstead setting a precedent for sustainability while producing the best tasting food in the area! Follow us on Instagram!

• URBAVORE •

ur-ba-vore [ûr'bə-vôr] noun
(1) any animal that consumes urban-grown foods. (2) an organism that feeds from the energy, surplus, and/or waste of a city. Move over “100 mile diet” the new local food is but a bus ride away…. Welcome to U

RBAVORE in east Kansas City - one of the nations largest, most diversified urban farmsteads - a living, breathing organism that both feeds from and provides food for its urban surroundings. Born in 2011, URBAVORE is working to create and “edible oasis” that brings organic growth, sustainable life, and creative solutions to a city neighborhood. The farm uses “Beyond Organic” practices to produce heirloom vegetables, culinary/medicinal herbs, and edible flowers noted for their unique appearance and extraordinary flavor. The fruitful future of URBAVORE holds much more than annual vegetables:

Farmers, Brooke Salvaggio and Dan Heryer (aka the “Badseeds”), are hard at work creating a wholly sustainable, off-grid farmstead that includes an organic orchard, vineyard, heritage livestock, and alternative infrastructure. This 13.5 acre farm is but 7 miles from the BADSEED downtown storefront. Come and explore the unimaginable flavors of our extensive selection of “earthly delights” on Saturdays at Brookside Farmers Market on 63rd and Wornall.

The farm is in full summer swing these days! I’m mesmerized and motivated by the beauty & sustenance of it all, and simu...
06/23/2025

The farm is in full summer swing these days! I’m mesmerized and motivated by the beauty & sustenance of it all, and simultaneously destroyed by 12 hour days, 7 days a week. Geez, can we really keep this up? Regardless, we’ll have some new offerings this week including freshly dug purple potatoes, and white satin carrots to complement the orange beauties. I’ll have LOTS of insane bouquets, as well as sunflowers by the stem. Eggs are in full force of course and bacon is plentiful!! Speaking of “plenty”, the peaches are weighing down the trees so badly this year that I hear these sickening cracks while I work, signifying another branch broken.😞 Nothing to be done about it now, but the high winds certainly don’t help! My “food not lawns” poppy mix is finally blooming, and although the wind is taking them out pretty fast, I’m enjoying their cotton candy colors as a backdrop to sweet potato planting & blueberry picking! Hug a farmer if you happen to see one. It ain’t for the faint of heart!❤️

Beautiful Harvests Today!!🥰 The carrots are in full force, the chard is simply “other worldly”  and my snapdragons will ...
06/18/2025

Beautiful Harvests Today!!🥰 The carrots are in full force, the chard is simply “other worldly” and my snapdragons will get their first big cutting. Really happy with my flower fields this year, and excited to expand upon our flower biz and soon-to-be “you pick” flower operation!!🥳 We need your SUPPORT to keep growing. Head on over to the online store (link in profile) and place your orders for Thursday Eve pickup from 4-7pm!!💚Best fresh food in KC!!

Last chance to register for our soil health workshop with ! It is free and open to the public, this Tuesday, 4-6pm. We’l...
06/15/2025

Last chance to register for our soil health workshop with ! It is free and open to the public, this Tuesday, 4-6pm. We’ll tour the farm and talk in depth about our compost-powered no-till system for organic veggie/flower production. You’ll see how we grow GINORMOUS veggies in untilled, heavy clay soil, much of which has been excavated in a previous life (top soil removed😬) and even a field that used to be a baseball diamond - which now produces baseball sized beets!🥳 Be ready to walk and ask questions! AND, bring your own buckets or truck bed if you’d like to leave with some of our farm made fertility - COMPOST - fueled by our sister biz !! Food waste to farms is the FUTURE!!💪

A bouquet for my mom’s birthday! Had fun with this one - deep, passionate tones, all purple and red! What can I charge f...
06/14/2025

A bouquet for my mom’s birthday! Had fun with this one - deep, passionate tones, all purple and red! What can I charge for something like this? After slangin’ veggies for almost 20 years, I think I’m in the wrong business!😂

NERDY awesome SOIL WORKSHOP at Urbavore &  next Tuesday, June 17th from 4-6 pm. Free and open to the public!! This is pa...
06/13/2025

NERDY awesome SOIL WORKSHOP at Urbavore & next Tuesday, June 17th from 4-6 pm. Free and open to the public!! This is part of the core apprenticeship workshop series and we are delighted to be the host farm. Go to the last slide for signup info!!💚

The bouquets turned out nice today!🥰Loving the Purple Millet and the Teddy Bear Sunflowers. I really don’t have time for...
06/12/2025

The bouquets turned out nice today!🥰Loving the Purple Millet and the Teddy Bear Sunflowers. I really don’t have time for flower production and arranging. The food side of our farm already kills me. But I just LOVE flowers so much!!! For next season, I am interested in partnering with a badass flower child to rev up the flower side of our biz. I’d like for someone else to take the lead and be able to create a successful urban flower entrepreneurial endeavor utilizing our land and customer base!! Just putting that out there!!!🌹🌸🌻

Edible flowers in the shop this week as well as the first bouquets to complement our outrageous roots and greens!! Go to...
06/11/2025

Edible flowers in the shop this week as well as the first bouquets to complement our outrageous roots and greens!! Go to the link in profile by today (Wednesday) at midnight to place your orders for Thursday evening pickup on the urban farm from 4-7 pm. Stroll the fields while you’re here. Kids welcome!!🤗

What a GORGEOUS evening! I’m scouting around while Dan trellises tomatoes, trying to figure out what new items will go i...
06/09/2025

What a GORGEOUS evening! I’m scouting around while Dan trellises tomatoes, trying to figure out what new items will go into the online store this week. Definitely adding these gorgeous fresh onions as well as edible violas, and the first of my “Wild Spirit” Bouquets!!😍 If you missed the farm tour this weekend due to the rain🌧️😢, you are always welcome to stroll through the fields on Thursdays from 4-7pm during our market hours. I created lots of signage and a path with flags for the tour. I’m gonna go ahead and leave that stuff up this week for those of you who want to see this incredible edible oasis in the flesh!! Each bed/crop is labeled and the paths are mowed!! That’s a big deal y’all.🤣💚🌻💐

Wowza!! So excited for the tour, but also ready for it to be over!😂 Prepping for this stuff on top of the daily is reall...
06/06/2025

Wowza!! So excited for the tour, but also ready for it to be over!😂 Prepping for this stuff on top of the daily is really challenging, but we are VERY grateful to share our hard work with you and stand in solidarity with all the awesome growing sites throughout the metro!! Please attend, even if it rains!! This is a super kid friendly event and a wonderful way to spend a Saturday! If you can only make it to a handful of sites, here are my recommendations: us of course (but I’m biased😉), Juniper Gardens, KC Farm School, and Two Birds! These are all larger sites ranging from non-profit community initiatives to actual mom & pop working farms. *Dan and I have to haul butt out to the Flint Hills around 4 pm for a dear friend’s wedding!😅 So we’ll have to ditch out a little early but we’ll officially be open until 5 with BEER!!!🍻 See you soon. More tour deets at !!

Time to place those orders for Thursday pickup. Link in profile! Truly the last week for ASPARAGUS, but we have LOTS so ...
06/04/2025

Time to place those orders for Thursday pickup. Link in profile! Truly the last week for ASPARAGUS, but we have LOTS so load up!!! It stores beautifully (for several weeks) if you put it in a sealed Tupperware or ziplock bag in the fridge. I’m gonna miss those tasty spears! We eat them as snacks in the field RAW! Yum!!

Just had to show-off this INSANE STRAWBERRY TART baked for me as a belated B-Day treat by my incredibly competent (both ...
06/03/2025

Just had to show-off this INSANE STRAWBERRY TART baked for me as a belated B-Day treat by my incredibly competent (both in the field and in the kitchen😉) employee/friend !! I am SO LUCKY to have this badass chica as part of my crew and general farm orbit. Don’t know what I’d without her!🍓🍓🍓Kinda want to make her the farm manager so I can quit and lay on a beach somewhere (eating tarts)…😬

I am damn proud of what we do. DAMN PROUD! Over a million pounds of KC food scraps (per year) turned into nutrient-rich ...
06/03/2025

I am damn proud of what we do. DAMN PROUD! Over a million pounds of KC food scraps (per year) turned into nutrient-rich soil for ACREAGE of urban grown, organic FOOD. Food is life y’all. Soil is life. We can burn this planet to the ground and keep throwing away food waste, or we can feed farms.🤷‍♀️ It’s our decision, and I made mine a long time ago when I decided to dedicate my life to creating solutions for sustainable cities and healthy communities. NOTHING is stopping us from doing the right thing! Nothing. And I mean that. Sure, bureaucrats will make it difficult, and individuals, nimbys, and corporations may be cruel and obstructionist. But I don’t give a damn about selfish entities who don’t care about a way forward. I’m in this, knee deep every day. Your trash is my sustenance and the fertility for a thriving local food system. Go ahead, throw stones. I’ll keep composting and growing and EATING!! Oh yes, the eatin’ is GOOD over here!! Come see how we take KC food scraps and turn them into FOOD with our sister biz this SATURDAY as part of the Urban Grown Farms & Garden Tour. We’ll be open from 9 to 5 with lots of fun stuff up our (dirty) sleeves! Kids welcome and encouraged!! Purchase tickets for only $10 with or purchase them here when you arrive. This gives you access to 15 awesome sites throughout the metro!! 🐓🐷🌸🌱🍄🌈🌎♻️

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5500 Bennington Avenue
Kansas City, MO
64129

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