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Common Ground Producers and Growers
by Shelley Rich
Common Ground Producers & Growers has become an important part of the local food system in Kansas by connecting locally grown produce with neighborhoods that have limited…
Spotlight on Cherie Schenker
by Rick McNary
Cherie Schenker is a problem solver. One such problem was her husband, Kevin, was longing for the homegrown Kansas beef raised on their farm near McCune when he was stationed in…
Six Reasons to Celebrate our 6th Anniversary
by Rick McNary
Today marks the sixth anniversary of Shop Kansas Farms (SKF) and here are six reasons to celebrate!
Spotlight on Anna Tucker
by Rick McNary
Although Anna Tucker thinks it’s a bit corny, I agree with her: it’s pure joy to watch baby lambs head-butting each other or suddenly busting out in moves like a backup dancer for…
Spotlight on Shannon Kearney
by Rick McNary
Shannon Kearney bought her first herd of Angus cattle while she was living in an apartment in Lenexa. How did she make the transition from city life to country life?“I would go…
Spotlight on Cheryl Hunsinger
by Rick McNary
Cheryl Hunsinger loved sitting in her office and looking across the road at the field of sunflowers her husband, George, had planted as a surprise for her. She’d watch them turn…
Spotlight on Kelly Perry
by Rick McNary
The first thing I noticed when I met Kelly Perry the first time in the fall of 2020 were all of the USPS Flat Rate boxes of Perry’s Pork Rinds stacked on her front porch ready to…
Spotlight on Anita Hamm
by Rick McNary
People who grow up on a farm like Anita Hamm seem to be at their happiest when they are growing either plants or animals. Whether it is nourishing the lives of animals on Hamm’s…
Spotlight on Melissa Hildebrand-Reed
by Rick McNary
Melissa Hildebrand-Reed of Hildebrand Farms Dairy in Junction City is proud she is the product of a long and rich history of women on the farm.“I have great examples of women like…
Spotlight on Laurie Bruce
by Rick McNary
I have a special place in my heart for Laurie Bruce of Bruce’s Bullseye Farm. I watched her grow up in my hometown of Potwin and when she married her husband, Joel, she asked me…