Cultivate Kansas City hopes to inspire more urban gardeners with garden tour

“If you have a piece of land or even a large flower pot, you can grow a tomato or a row of lettuce. Just get your hands in the soil. Why wouldn’t you?” says Ethne Clarke, the editor in chief of Organic Gardening Magazine. Photo by Tammy Ljungblad, The Kansas City Star.

“One of the most exciting things to me is seeing good, healthy food being grown in neighborhoods that have no grocery stores.”

By Marty Ross
Kansas City Star
Jun 4, 2011

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It’s hard to miss the signs of urban farming these days. School-yard gardens and community gardens across the city promote the pleasure of growing your own peppers, beans, greens and other edibles. Farmers’ markets emphasize local crops and the gardeners who tend them.

“We’re riding a wave — there’s a food revolution going on,” says Janet Moss, coordinator for Cultivate Kansas City’s fourth biennial urban farm tour later this month. “People are talking about food gardening like I’ve never heard it before.”

Cultivate Kansas City (formerly Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture) has been helping urban gardeners for years. This year’s two-day tour includes 38 gardens and is designed to take some of the mystery out of growing your own vegetables. Beginning gardeners, especially, might be intimidated by seeds, transplants and hardiness zones, but there are just as many ways to succeed as there are gardeners willing to try their hand.

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