Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance

Locally Grown Produce Subscriptions

From a Farmers Cooperative

Serving the Northeast Kansas Area

From the farmer, to you...directly.

Start Dates for 2007:

JCCC: Weds. May 2

Lawrence Merc: Mon. May 7

Franklin Ctr.: Weds. May 3

Lawrence Local Burger: Thur. May 3

~East Stone House Creek Farm~

~Hoyland Farm~

~Maier's Farm~

~Sandheron Farm~

~Wakarusa Valley Farm~

Thornhill Farm (filling in for Conway while Paul is deployed in Iraq)

How does it work?

What would be in the bags (list of seasonal produce)?

Fourteen Seasons and Still Growing

Rolling Prairie is a cooperative of 6 small farmers located in four counties of Northeast Kansas. Since 1994, we have provided a vegetable subscription service to Lawrence and Kansas City.  During the growing season about 300 families come to one of our pickup sites once a week to fill their bag with the freshest, tastiest, and healthiest produce since homegrown. Most of the produce is certified organic, but some of us are still weighing the effects of the national standards on the term "organic", and have chosen not to be certified. Be assured, we still use no chemical fertilizers or pesticides or genetically modified organisms (GMO's), and our practices are designed to emphasize soil building and soil and water conservation.

What is a Farmer's Alliance?

Rolling Prairie Farmer's Alliance is a special type of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). We call it a produce subscription service because our customers subscribe to our service for a season's worth of produce. The farmers in the alliance operate as a cooperative, which serves as a kind of insurance policy for the subscribers. The six farms span four counties in the rolling prairie of Northeast Kansas. If one farm gets frosted, hailed out, flooded, dried up, or attacked by grasshoppers, chances are others can take up the slack. We become more efficient in our marketing efforts, which leaves us more time to concentrate on growing food without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We have been doing this longer than the vast majority of CSA's in the country, and Rolling Prairie is fairly unique as well in its cooperative structure.

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