The Kansas Rural Center, Inc. (KRC) is a non-profit organization that promotes the long-term health of the land and its people through research, education, and advocacy.
The KRC cultivates grassroots support for public policies that encourage family farming and stewardship of soil and water. The KRC is committed to economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially sustainable rural culture.

 

Click here for the interview!

Click the icon for the podcast of KRC's Dan Nagengast
and Katherine Kelly of the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture
discussing the importance of Farmer's Markets and Community Supported Agriculture.
Original interview by Daniel Dermitzel broadcast September 29, 2008
on KKFI radio in Kansas City.

 NOTE: This is a 5 meg MP3 file.

 

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Prescribed Burning Workshops to Be Held in Western Kansas
November 20
- Oakley
December 1 - Elkhart
December 3 - Dodge City

Thursday-Saturday, December 4-6 - ACRES USA Conference & Trade Show
In St. Louis MO
Pre-conference workshops, December 1-3

Wednesday, December 10 - Kansas Water Issues Forum
In Wichita KS

Thursday, December 11 -
Kansas Water Issues Forum
In Hays KS

Saturday, December 13 - Kansas Rural Center Winter Conference
"Meeting the Challenges of a Rapidly Changing Agriculture",
9 AM to 4 PM, St. Monica-St. Elizabeth Catholic Church,
Blue Rapids, KS

To learn about these and other upcoming events
 go to our Calendar web page.


WHAT'S NEW

Clean Water Farm Project
seeks Field Organizer

KRC Wind Energy Projects

2007 Report of Kansas Food Security Task Force

Read the Clean Water Farm profile
of Kerry O'Brien

The Future of Food
in the Kansas River Valley

- proceedings of the May 31 conference in Lawrence

New KRC Publication:
Rules, Regulations & Resources for Farmers Markets in Kansas

Read the latest issue of
the KRC Rural Papers