Gardening is Empowerment
The KCCG Mission
KCCG Headquarters
6917 Kensington
Kansas City, MO 64132
Phone: 816.931.3877
Email: contact{at}kccg.org
Hours
Mon-Fri : 9am-5pm
Saturday: 9am-12pm (March 23rd - May 11th)
Free Workshop: Growing and Cooking with Fresh Herbs
July 12th @ 12pm
KCCG Headquarters
6917 Kensington Ave
Kansas City, MO 64132
Fresh herbs are a tasty and healthy way to enhance your cooking. Learn the best ways to grow and preserve the most popular varieties of herbs. We will cook with several easy-to-grow herbs. Bring your appetite!
Gardens at Sunset
Sept 7th @6-9pm
Beanstalk Children's Garden @ KCCG
6917 Kensington Ave
Kansas City, MO 64132
Join us for a unique evening set in the wonder-filled Leanna Flandermeyer Beanstalk Children’s Garden featuring locally-sourced cuisine and beverages and live and silent auctions. Event proceeds benefit KCCG’s mission to inspire and empower low-income households, schools and community groups to grow their own fruits and vegetables.
Fall Family Festival
Sept 14th @10am-3pm
Beanstalk Children's Garden @ KCCG
6917 Kensington Ave
Kansas City, MO 64132
Join us on Saturday, September 14th from 10am-3pm for KCCG's annual Fall Family Festival! Activities include garden crafts, face painting, horse rides, bug exhibits, gourd painting, scavenger hunt, and more! This event is free to the public and food and drink will be available for purchase.
Beanstalk Children's Garden
The Beanstalk Children’s Garden provides nutrition and environmental education to Kansas City’s youth in a unique urban garden setting, using a STEM-based curriculum tailored to meet the needs of all learning levels. Children gasp with wonder as they engage all five senses to experience the garden’s six unique areas: Vegetable, Fruit, Herb, Grain, Curiosity, and Water, tasting in-season plants and becoming inspired to grow their own food.
Community Partner Gardens
CPG assists community groups, faith-based organizations, neighborhood associations, & other non-profits with having successful vegetable gardens through technical assistance & access low-cost gardening resources. Click the button below to start a community garden!
Rent A Plot
Whether you are dealing with too much shade in your backyard, an apartment or rental house with no place to garden or you need more room to grow, a community garden rental plot can help solve all of these problems and more!
Home Gardens
KCCG is one of the only gardening organizations in the country dedicated to helping home gardeners have successful gardens. We help people grow food for themselves in backyards, vacant lots and at community garden sites.
Schoolyard Gardens
The SYG program works with schools metro-wide to establish vegetable gardens on school grounds. KCCG staff support school staff and students so to produce successful gardens, exposing students to the wonders of growing their own food.
Giving Grove
The Giving Grove, a program of KCCG, is an organization with the mission of helping the KC metropolitan and surrounding communities grow, harvest, and share healthy food by providing the resources needed to plant edible tree gardens at schools, churches, and other vacant land.