Sow a Seed
Reap the Harvest
Providing free & fresh organic vegetables for our community!
To strike in minds to do for self!
Eat Healthy!
Eat Organic!
🌱 About Global One Urban Farming
Global One Urban Farming is a nonprofit organization rooted in the heart of Kansas City, dedicated to transforming lives through sustainable agriculture, youth entrepreneurship, and community healing. Since 2015, we've been growing more than food—we’re growing futures.
We teach children, teens, and adults how to grow fresh produce in a USDA-defined food desert while empowering high school students to build their own businesses in farming, baking, carpentry, art, culinary arts, natural wellness, and nonprofit leadership. Our hands-on programs create real pathways to economic mobility, leadership, and wellness for underserved communities.
We believe urban farming is more than planting seeds—it's about cultivating self-reliance, pride, and community.
First greenhouse constructed with the help of volunteers.
This is the second much larger greenhouse at 4409 Cypress built to accommodate more growing for donations of food to our seniors, veterans, youth and families in the community.
Global One Urban Farming is a 501(c) (3) non-profit charitable organization that produces and distributes free organic vegetables at our 1.5 acre garden site to seniors, veterans, youth and low-income families with the goal of raising health levels throughout Kansas City USDA defined food insecurity communities. Our team converts unused land into sustainable organic community vegetable gardens. We also have partnered with the Kansas City School District where we teach Urban Farming Clubs in schools here in Kansas City, Missouri. We provide access to healthy organic vegetables made available in the food desert areas in our community of our neighbors.
We desire to change the way our city looks at healthy food for better overall health. We promote in the community to eat fresh, healthy, affordable, and easy to access vegetables. At one time Global One Urban Farming had four different organic garden locations in Kansas City, Missouri.
We have come to know our neighbors and our neighborhoods, which has helped us identify those who need fresh food. We reach out to church groups, neighborhood organizations and collaborate with many organizations. We supply bags of fresh organic vegetables to elderly citizens’ homes free of charge. We started with tomato plants in our own backyard, and now are, planting and harvesting on 66,000 square feet (1.5 acres) of inner-city reclaimed and repurposed land. We distribute over 30,000 pounds of produce each
Where we Started:
EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL
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AFRICAN CENTERED COLLEGE PREPATORY ACADEMY
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KIPP ACADEMY
URBAN GARDENING CLUBS
& AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
Kauffman is located at 6401 Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri
African Centered-College Prep is located at 6410 Swope Pkwy, Kansas City, Missouri
KIPP Academy- August 2022-23 School Year
The mission and goal of Global One Urban Farming having School Garden Clubs is to teach students the greenhouse process of producing vegetable and flower plants from seed to harvest, and how to grow vegetables in indoor and outdoor organic gardens.
The Garden Club is special because it teaches students in the Kansas City, Missouri urban core, who might not have otherwise had the opportunity, the knowledge and skills in urban agriculture to grow and maintain healthy organic vegetables and create sustainable vegetable gardens.
The Garden Club also grows in containers with grow lights throughout the year. Students take home plants that they have grown themselves. Students learn benefits there are to cook with the herbs and vegetables they’ve grown in the classroom. We also make presentations to parents, teachers, school community on what they’ve learned.
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The Garden Club works with scholars in the inner city urban core that might never have any agricultural learning or knowledge of eating healthy organic vegetables produced by their own hands!
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Most of our urban neighborhoods are considered food desert areas. The Garden Club can be a step toward changing that fact, which can be so important ultimately to these students in the urban core.
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The Garden Club teaches students how to create sustainable organic community vegetable gardens in the midst of these deserts for their own good and their community’s good.
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The Garden Club aims to teach students the full and complete process of how to produce organic vegetables and flowers in the greenhouse and in outdoor gardens within a full school year.
We are teaching the students how to produce a large volume of vegetable and flower plants. We teach the process from seeds, to plants and to harvest. We show students that they too in fact can do this same thing for themselves. The Garden Club offers student gardening activities all year around. Each quarter of the year will feature different course activities:
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Germination of Vegetable and Flower Seeds
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Transplanting and Greenhouse Care Skills
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Outdoor Gardening Tasks
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Outdoor Organic Gardening
Garden productivity is how we know we have succeeded. Our program has produced thousands of vegetable plants and flowers that are grown and harvested and used at free outreach services to help feed those in need. Our success is measured through our productivity and how many students we are able to teach.
We have now expanded to an 1.5 acre site of growing land and a greenhouse located at 4409 Cypress Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64130. We invite you to come out and see us!
