A weekly box of veggies from your local farmer!
Do you want to know your farmer?
Do you want to know where your food comes from and how it was grown?
Our CSA subscription program is the best way to reconnect with the story and the people behind your food. We are real people, real farmers, who want to reestablish the connection between you and the soil right here in Kansas City!
Meet Your Farmers
Farmer Dave and Sheri
We understand what it feels like to want to look your farmer in the eye. After 11 years of farming we realize that we bring you more than just a box of incredible tasting veggies each week. The CSA is a place where you become friends with your farmer and other foodies like you.
Our Family Farm
Our family has been growing great produce since 2009 when we were bitten by the organic gardening bug. Back then our CSA started with a handful of friends who wanted to join us in a transformational eating journey . Over the years the farm and our CSA have grown, but we are the same old avid gardeners passionate about the dirt and about eating fresh produce! We don’t have a big farm, but we utilize year-round production strategies to provide our community green, fresh, locally grown, produce throughout the year including the cold Missouri winter.
Why Choose a CSA?
Eat with the season! Become part of the local food movement! Know your farm and know your food! Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farms CSA program allows you to take home your share of the harvest each week. Each week we arrange the bountiful harvest farmer’s market style for our members to select from. Choose what you want in the quantities you want based upon the membership level you have subscribed to. CSA’s are proven to increase vegetable consumption and lead to positive health outcomes and our members agree.
You'll Eat more Veggies!
Eat Healthier!
Chances are you are missing out on some of the incredible health benefits of vegetables. A recent CDC study reveals that 86% of Americans are not eating enough vegetables! Joining the CSA is taking a big step toward joining the 14%ers!
Crowd Sourced Inspiration
Our Online Community
In our CSA we have some absolute rock stars when it come to cooking as well as some total beginners. The private CSA Facebook group is an amazing place to get inspired by fellow members and ask how to better use that kohlrabi you chose last week!
We include lots of coaching and support
We’ll help you put those veggies to good use!
It’s normal to wonder if you’ll be able to eat all the food you get each week. That’s why we’ve built in a pretty hefty training support system into your membership.
Our private Facebook group community and weekly emails with recipes and storage tips from Shieri will shortcut your learning curve to CSA mastery!
Spring Mix + Tomatoes + Green Beans
Carrots + Lettuce Heads + Baby Bok Choy
Garlic + Basil + Arugula
Fresh Baby Ginger + Fresh Turmeric + Zucchini
Baby Spinach + Broccoli + Bell Peppers
English Cucumbers + Spicy Peppers + Collard Greens
Cilantro + Parsley + Dill
Sugar Snap Peas + Baby Salad Turnips + Mini Cucumbers
Kale + Sweet Onions + Broccolini
Kohlrabi + Pattypan Squash + Radishes
Green Onions + Cherry Tomatoes + Celery
Swiss Chard + Napa Cabbage + Eggplant
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Check out this introduction video to the farm
Naturally Grown
The health of our family, our customers and our environment is of critical importance to us. That is why preserving natural practices in the growing of the produce we provide to our community supported agriculture members is part of who we are.
We aim to protect biodiversity, build organic matter in the soil, prevent pollution, reduce waste, and conserve resources. Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farms was founded with the belief that natural ecosystems hold within them the keys to growing healthy food. We’re committed to our “more than organic” standards.
We bring ancient agricultural wisdom and modern biological research together to develop growing practices that mimic naturally occurring processes and result in healthier food and a healthier environment.
Our commitment to using natural growing practices requires us to emphatically reject the use of all of the following on our farm:
- We reject all synthetic chemical pesticides (Sevin).
- We reject all synthetic herbicides (Roundup, Preen, etc.).
- We reject all synthetic fungicides (Daconil).
- We reject all petroleum based fertilizers (ammonium nitrate, super phosphates, potassium phosphates, etc.).
- We reject all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) seeds.
At Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farms, feeding the soil is our core business. It may look like dirt to you, but the soil is a vast ecosystem of living organisms and minerals, iron oxides, unicellular bacteria, actinomycete filaments, flagellated protozoans, ciliated protozoans, amoebae, Mycorrhizal Fungi, nematodes, root hairs, earthworms, elongate springtails, and mites. These combine to make nutrients available to plants.
Synthetic fertilizers short-circuit the process, giving a quick jolt to plants, but often starving the soil organisms and reducing long-term productivity of the soil. We make it our aim to improve soil quality and organic matter content with every growing season. We improve the soil through the application of copious amounts of locally sourced organic compost made from recycled Kansas City area food and lawn wastes and tested and guaranteed free from chemical residues as well as compost produced from crop residues on the farm.
We also apply composted manure as well as kelp meal and fish emulsions for added nutrients. We plant cover crops like buckwheat, winter rye, and field peas to add organic matter and fix nitrogen into the soil. The thick organic straw mulches we apply for water conservation and weed control also break down to feed the soil microorganisms. Crop rotations including deep-rooted crops help bring up key minerals locked deep within the Missouri subsoil.
Finally, we limit tillage and compaction of our planting beds for improved soil structure that gives soil microbes, fungi, and earthworms the ability to thrive.
“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces — just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child
