Buy Local Kansas

 

 

We don’t use chemical pesticides or fertilizers on our crops.  We don’t keep our hens in small cages – they are free to forage all over our farm.

Look for us at the Emporia Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings May through October, and at our South Avenue location, across from Las Casitas Park on Saturday afternoons. Click here for a map to the Emporia Farmer’s Market Click here for a map of our South Avenue location

 

• Locally grown food is fresher, tastier food, usually picked within a day or two of when you purchase it, unlike food from chain stores that sits in warehouses for sometimes weeks before it gets to the store. 
• Food grown without chemical pesticides or fertilizers is healthier.
• Buying locally helps the community.  Money you spend with local producers gets spent again by those producers in local stores and for local services, helping local businesses stay in business and supporting local jobs. 
• Buying locally grown food helps the environment.  We are concerned about sustainability on our farms, and strive to be good stewards of the land and water resources we manage.
• Buying locally grown food helps reduce our dependence on foreign oil.  Food produced locally is only shipped a short distance, much less than the hundreds or thousands of miles typical of chain store produce, and contributes fewer greenhouse gasses to our atmosphere.

We started with a small garden to grow our own vegetables, and a few chickens for eggs.  The garden was fairly successful that first year – we learned a lot, and ended up with more vegetables and eggs than we could eat, so we shared with family.  After tasting how good those fresh veggies and eggs were, we were bitten by the “gardening bug”, and expanded our plantings so we would have enough for ourselves, and some to sell too.