2025-2026 Pilot Project Awards

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2025–2026 Pilot Project Awards

Farm/Garden Name & Project Description
Farm/Garden Name Project Description
The Ozanam Therapeutic Teaching Farm, Powered by Build Trybe Seed to Storage: Enhancing Youth-Grown Produce Capacity: increase cold storage
Manhiem Gardens Rainwater Catchment and Education: rainwater catchment system and education workshops
Pendleton Heights Community Garden Raised Bed Rebuild and Optimizing Growing Space: site prep and build materials
Longfellow Farm Infrastructure repairs and maintence supplies, supplies for increasing seedling growing capacity, orchard supplies
Volker Community Garden SPROUT Program (School Produce Regeneration for Organic Urban Teaching): season expansion
Vine & Fig Tree Doubling the Potential: garden expansion into vacant lot, site prep and garden build out, garden steward stipends
Harvey Towne Urban Farm Expanding Fruit Production at Harvey Towne Urban Farm: tree removal and planting new orchard
BoysGrow Farm Personnel & farm supplies
Thumpers Garden Enhancement Project: garden improvements to increase garden accessability for gardeners of all ages and mobility capabilities & increase growing capacity
Asteroid Acres Cold Storage Build: Converting and existing toolshed on the property to a CoolBot powered cold storage room and dry storage area
Bite Size Farm Food is Free Crop Expansion: new beds, chicken coop, and garden maintenance supplies
Tracy Garden Garden assistant personnel
Seton Center Community Garden Operation Fresh Produce: garden expansion & supplies
Bread and Roses Farm Hyperlocal Food Systems: Expanding Access to Regeneratively-Farmed Produce on a Neighborhood Level: increase online store and farmstand capacity
Urban Produce Push Staff time for personnel to manage gardens, garden maintenance supplies
Kansas City Urban Farm Cooperative Circle of Life Composting Project: black soldier fly composting sytem build out
Lykins Orchard Orchard Stewards, volunteer training, watering infrastructure, orchard maintenance supplies
Hamer Free Food Program Hamer Free Food Program: deliver 8-lb produce boxes sourced from five Black-led farms to 50 households near 31st & Prospect, Community Food Leader stipends, 2 workshop events, Defender print edition
Manheim Paseo Learning Garden Garden expansion, water catchment, and garden steward stipends
Ivanhoe Learning Farm Increase cold storage capacity for garden and donated produce
Young Family Farm Cool it: Bring electric to storage sheds and increase cold storage capacity
Sankara Farm Improvements in sustainable infrastructure: increase capacity of wash & pack station
Ophelia's Blue Vine Farm Chicken Coop & Community Learning Hub: chicken egg production and distrbution, 3-bin chicken manure composting system, chicken husbandry video education
Global One Urban Farming Growing Hope in the Midtown Kansas City: expand growing space and workshops
Dunbar Farms Climate Resilience and Urban Agriculture: farm coordinator, community engagement, farm infrastructure
Joshua's Garden Garden materials and infrastructure