Celebrate your community's passion for locally grown food by heading to Kansas City's own Friday night market. Whether pulled in by the passionate musicians outside or the draw of the vibrant and wild produce seen through the inviting windows, you won't be dissapointed by what you find inside.
Badseed Market is housed in the Crossroads area, in downtown Kansas City and can easily be part of your "First Fridays" or any Friday detour for that matter. (It perfectly complimented my mini-mission to Christopher Elbow's chocolates just a few doors down.) Why not go door-to-door hopping while you're down there? Each door opens a new world of flavor, and begs you to keep tasting... which I gladly did.
Badseed market is not your ordinary farmers market. I found it to be a world within a greater world of deep awareness and passion for community-based, local health, and it's here in Kansas City! The proof is in the look, the taste, and the quality of all the produce and products housed there. Call me a hippie all you like, but there's no disputing that love is felt when tasting the samples offered. Yes, I'm serious, every fruit and vegetable simply looks super-humanly beautiful and the garlic alone looked like it belonged in some fantastical vampire story--even hanging from the ceilings for extra effect. I would wager that it can stave off fierce illnesses much like it would vampires. The purple hue of the seasonal eggplant was other worldly, and heirloom tomatoes were such that I had keep taking photo after photo. "Did someone add color to these tomatoes?" They even offer organic apples that are pretty-darn-down-the-road. For a girl who's always on a mission for local apples, this is epic!
Badseeds Create Superhuman Food?
The Badseed Farmers Market, planted and nourished by Brooke Salvaggio and Daniel Heryer, offers vendors and products that adhere to organic, local, sustainable, and passionate practices. Their urban farm in downtown KC, "Urbavore" is proudly described as "beyond organic" due to their "no nonsense" farming practicing they love and live by. In short, they hand pick vendors that live by similar practices, and therefore, produce magical food.
This Friday Night Farmers’ Market offers a fantastic array of local, organic delights including colorful fruits and veggies, baked goods, gourmet mushrooms, goat cheese, eggs and free-range meats. I sampled some incredible eats, and will never forget the localbucha (homemade kombucha) that can assist in many digestive and health disorders. The homemade pineapple and cilantro soda is also etched in my memory. All this, in our downtown--backyard.
Go out and smile at your local farmers; they will not forget you. Shake the hand of passionate farmers who put health back into our community. The practices of this market is revolutionizing the way that we grow and eat food, and planting great wisdom for generations to come. Come and celebrate in happiness and health!
Badseed Farmers Market is located at:
1909 McGee Street, KCMO, 64108
Summer hours: 4-9 pm Friday
Winter hours: 4-8 pm Friday
To learn more about their practices, classes, and events please visit their site:
http://www.badseedkc.com/
(If you wish to help our city compost, check out their free composting program that helps us turn waste to gold: http://www.badseedkc.com/farm/services/)
In Love and Health,
~Christy~
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