Harvesting Change

This series from Flatland and Kansas City PBS brings the fight for the Kansas City region’s sustainable food systems to your dinner table.

Cows feeding in trough

Harvesting Change | Localizing Our Food System

As part of the Flatland series “Harvesting Change,” Flatland in Focus looks at the people and policies that influence the transition away from industrial agriculture to a more localized food system that protects and regenerates the environment.

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A woman looks at a bundle of drying flowers on a lettuce stalk in a hoop house.

Harvesting Change | Making Local Food Connections in the Heartland  

Meet the people who are making Kansas City’s increasingly interconnected local food system more sustainable on multiple fronts.

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A woman in a black sweater stands in a greenhouse and holds a tray of fennel seedlings.

Harvesting Change | Growing Roots in the KC Food System 

The New Roots farmer training program is a four-year apprenticeship with Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas and Cultivate KC.  

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A woman with red hair and a scarf smiles and gestures with her hands. Behind her are rows of tall sorghum plants and a woman with a maroon tshirt.

Harvesting Change | A Perennial Future 

The Land Institute is playing the long game to develop perennial grain crops that reduce farmer inputs and promote healthy soils. 

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A man in a camouflage coat and a brown hat stands in front of a red barn in a blizzard.

Harvesting Change | Advocating for Family Farms

Patchwork Family Farms provides vital links in the local food chain, relieving farmers from the stress of processing, packaging and marketing to customers.

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