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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.

06/01/2026

First of the BULB FENNEL headed into the crockpot with Pork Osso Buco and loads of farm fresh herbs (for my B-Day dinner).🥳 Dan is also making me a berry cake with the last of the strawberries and the first of the BLACK RASPBERRIES!!!🤩 The Fava Beans have just matured as well and will be making their way into some sort of salad with shaved pecorino and fresh mint.😋 This is prime eating for a salty Sicilian like myself!!

05/31/2026

The Urbavore fields are about to “pop” with every kind of bloom imaginable!! As we rev up for flower season, I want to remind y’all that we offer some of the brightest, best-priced regenerative blooms in the area - all grown with KC food scraps turned compost!!! In truth, I’m a veggie and livestock producer who has recently become intoxicated with “flower power” and I’ve upped our production ten-fold. I’m a bit new to this game as a “florist” and “designer” which is why my prices are so competitive. Flower growers and florists need to be paid well, but EVERYONE deserves organic blooms for their wedding or special day, and it kills me just how darn expensive it can be!! I’ll work with your budget and provide you with something truly unique with all the quirks of calloused farmer hands and true grit! My bouquets aren’t generic magazine quality - they’re BETTER cuz they are lovingly nurtured from KC soil in the most honest and ethical way with blood and sweat to boot. Please contact me by email at [email protected] with inquiries. “You-pick” options coming soon!! *We also do wholesale by the bucket or stem to other growers/florists!

05/29/2026

I’ll be turning 44 on Sunday. I thought all I was going get was peri-menopause and a 12-hour work day, but it turns out I’ll be getting some Purple Moon Cauliflower too!!!🎉🤩‼️ First time growing this stuff, mainly because our heavy clay soils were never good enough to attempt it before. Fertilizing with “KC Food Scraps turned compost” has really paid off!! Now that’s a pretty good B-Day present: the best damn fertilizer in the world and climate action to boot!! Be sure to snag these purple puppies in the online store next week.😉

05/27/2026

Beautiful harvests coming in from the fields today!! When you work at Urbavore, you get to learn the ins and outs of growing and harvesting many different types of crops. In the second photo, Farmer Dan instructs an eager and thoughtful Eli on the nuances of harvesting Purple Sprouting Broccoli.😎 This work is not easy and it takes a lot of concentration, focus, and grit to achieve fluidity in the fields. “Newbies” often face a steep learning curve, but if they have the drive and fortitude to stick with it, they will eventually become very knowledgeable growers who can kick some serious ass in the garden!! Knowing how to build soil and grow food without chemicals or commercial fertilizers (as well as very few extractive resources) will likely be one of the MOST IMPORTANT skills a young person could obtain as our fossil fuel-powered systems begin to break down and climate and/or political crisis sweeps the globe…🤔oh yeah…and AI takes all the jobs.😂 Not trying to be dramatic or alarmist by any means…just making a very grounded point that earth work and regenerative food production is CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE!! If you want to support our efforts of growing future growers as well as recycling food waste into more & better food with our sister biz , please place an order at the link in profile by midnight for Thursday evening pick-up on the urban farm!!🙏 Sales are down this year due to the economy I suppose, but our food is a GREAT DEAL especially as grocery store prices sky-rocket. We’ve got bumper crops of countless varieties of veg packed with deep nutrients and far-out flavor!!😋💪♻️🌎 P.S. My strawflowers are about to explode!!!🤩

05/26/2026

Okay…so I’ve been avoiding talking about it…but far too many people have been asking “WTF happened to the Urbavore strawberries??!!”🍓 🍓🍓As you know, we normally pump out hundreds and hundreds of pints of the best tasting berries on the planet this time in May!!🤤 We’ve been doing it for many years and it is our claim to fame. NOT this year though.😞 This year, we barely have enough to fulfill our CSA Shares which always get “best pick”. This doesn’t just suck for YOU (the berry addict), it sucks hard for us (the farmers) as we lose considerable income that we count on to stay afloat. Why are there so few berries you ask?🤷‍♀️ Well, it’s a two parter. First, the berry plants were victim to some crazy climate induced weather shenanigans. They started flowering in FEBRUARY for crying out loud. I knew way back then we’d see some serious problems. Second, my well-established berry plots (fields that had been in production for periods of time ranging from 5 to 10 years were mismanaged and overcome with weeds during the 3-year period we spent battling the City and trying to keep the farm afloat. There were A LOT of casualties during that horrid span of years, and we are just lucky to have made it out alive with a piece of land still intact and the home we built for our family.😬 The good news is, even though many perennial fields of strawberries and other crops may have been compromised or lost completely, we’ve diligently been working to replant and re-establish these coveted fruits. Next year should be a REALLY GOOD ONE for 🍓🍓🍓 as I have young beds coming on strong. Even though we don’t have your coveted berries right now, PLEASE support us anyway! We grow an amazing variety of nutrient-dense foods and without year-round support and seasonal eating, we can’t afford to get you those berries 3 weeks out of the year!! 😳😳😳 Yup, they are only around for a short time, but farmers have to survive and sell food 52 weeks out of the year.🤔 Something to chew on, eh?

05/25/2026

Behold: the master!!👌 Sol has no shortage of amazing farm fresh ingredients to choose from including an extensive selection of edible flowers!🌺 These Urbavore rolls feature our unctuous ground pork sautéed with garlic scapes, the first of the season’s carrots, red lettuce, mint, cilantro, vermicelli noodles, and some homemade “yum yum” sauce. Flowers are inside and outside cuz why not??!! Sol had recently taken a liking to making these and I have ZERO complaints!🤤

05/21/2026

Oh my…the Rainbow Chard is simply glowing!!🤩🌈🌈 Our fields are fertilized with 💯 food waste turned compost on our 13.5 acre urban oasis. I’ve never seen healthier crops in my life and to think that this was clay subsoil when we started!! You couldn’t even get a spade down in it.😲 Please help me unload some of this glorious, nutrient-dense food! Head to the link in profile to place an order for Thursday evening pick-up!!🙏♻️🌎🌱

05/20/2026

The GARLIC SCAPES are here!! What a special time of year when the hard-neck garlic starts “scaping” - sending up those beautiful curving stems that yearn to make a flower - only to be plucked by our merciless crew so that the plant can focus on making a big bulb instead!! These supple swan-like necks are lovingly bunched so that you can DEVOUR them in all types of dishes, or make them into a wonderful PESTO. is a beloved preparation that I highly recommend. Scape season is short, mind you! Head to the link in profile to place your orders for the best VEG on the planet!! Pickup is this Thursday between 4 and 7 pm on the urban farm just 5 miles east of the Plaza.

05/19/2026

Attention members: we just updated the list of products in your portal. You can now order loads of luscious greens & herbs to be delivered with your food waste pick-up!!♻️ We’ll add more products as the season evolves. ‼️Also, we have CSA Farm Box openings starting in June. If you’d like to receive a weekly box of seasonal produce - the best the farm has to offer - sign up in your portal!! Farm to table, table to farm!🥳

05/18/2026

Whirlwind tour of our back field - grown in KC food scraps with !!!

Address

5500 Bennington Avenue
Kansas City, MO
64129

Telephone

+19135223458

Website

http://www.urbavorefarm.com/, https://shop-urbavore.square.site/

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